‘Goodbye my friend and thank you’

JUST a few hundred yards from the Holy Cross Church in Dublin lies the Dundrum Luas stop.

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.