Priest praises broadcaster for giving hope to listeners

“NONE of us who knew Gerry Ryan will ever let him die,” Fr Brian D’Arcy declared during the funeral Mass for the popular broadcaster.

He told mourners to comfort one another with Mr Ryan’s innumerable stories and to weave them together in the fabric of a great compassionate coat of many colours, which his life undoubtedly was.

“I am lonely and broken like the entire nation, whom he regaled every morning with his compassion,” he said.