‘A sad day but it’s also one to celebrate a great man’

A BIG funeral for a giant of a man.

Family, friends and fans of Moss Keane turned out in their hundreds for the funeral Mass of the former Munster, Ireland and Lions rugby player at St Michael’s Church in Portarlington, Co Laois.

While his status as one of the great characters of Irish rugby was duly recalled, it was also an occasion when mourners were offered an insight into other, less known aspects of his life — particularly of Moss as a family man with a great sense of fun as well as a love of golf and his native Kerry, particularly his home village of Currow. In the words of his eldest daughter, Sarah, he was “just the humblest, gorgeous soul”.