‘He understood people, he listened, he’s irreplaceable’

DENISE WARREN carried two pale pink roses and two decades of memories as she stood outside the church to remember Gerry Ryan.

“I rang into him once,” recalled the mother of two grown-up children who she reared to the sound of Gerry on the radio.

“It was a long time ago, with a personal, emotional problem. I felt when I had nobody else to listen to me, I knew he would.