Journalist and author Walsh laid to rest

THE funeral took place in Limerick yesterday of journalist and public relations figure Dermot Walsh.

Mr Walsh, who was 65, died after battling cancer over the past 13 years.

A native of Wexford, he served as editor of The People newspaper in Wexford, and also worked the Sunday Independent and the Irish Press group for which he was Mid-West Correspondent for a number of years.