‘Goodbye my friend and thank you’
An appropriate setting, then, for the funeral of Seamus Brennan, the former transport minister who had overseen the introduction of the light-rail system to the capital.
In a warm, humorous touch, one of the four offertory gifts during the Mass was a return ticket for the Luas, which brought wry smiles from mourners in the packed church, where there was standing room only some 10 minutes before the service began.
