Lenihan defined by duty, honour and country

DUTY, honour and country. Three simple words, three abstract concepts and three defining qualities by which Brian Lenihan was remembered as he was delivered to his final resting place.

His coffin was draped in the Tricolour to symbolise what was described as his “valiant fight for Ireland”, when he found the courage to fight illness and to face “challenges of the most daunting kind”.

In the small church of St Mochta’s, Porterstown, where Brian liked to sit alone on Sunday nights with his head buried in his hands, his friends, families and many acquaintances yesterday gathered to bid their final farewell.