Tributes to Moss Keane

THE worlds of sport and politics paid glowing tributes yesterday to the late Moss Keane, with many pointing to his mastery of skills across the codes of rugby and Gaelic football.

Among those paying tribute was his friend Jimmy Deenihan, the Fine Gael spokesman on sport and an All-Ireland winning Kerry footballer, who said Keane was “one of the best known Kerrymen of his generation”.

“Moss and I retained a long friendship since our youth and I had the pleasure of playing on the Kerry junior team with him as well as against him on the rugby pitch,” Mr Deenihan said, adding that Keane “retained a deep affection for Currow where he was born”.