Tralee bids a tearful farewell to its ‘gentle’ hero
In a homily at a special Mass for the late singer/songwriter in his native Tralee, Monsignor Dan O’Riordan, parish priest, said he took a vow as a young man not to drink, or smoke, and lived by that.
“In doing that he gave a powerful example in relation to our drink and drugs culture and showed that life could be lived to the full without recourse to drugs,” the monsignor said.
