‘He was different, fun and he was funny’

“HE was different, he was fun and he was funny.”

The side to Garret FitzGerald that people who knew him only as a serious and deep-thinking academic and politician and never saw was revealed by his three children at the end of the funeral Mass.

Mark FitzGerald, the younger of his two sons, recounted to laughs how, on Easter Sunday, his father told him one of his grand-daughters had asked him why her grandmother, Garret’s late wife Joan, had a fear of flying.