West Kerry community bids farewell to young GAA star

THE tiny villages of Camp and Annascaul in Kerry ground to a halt over the weekend as parishioners paid their last respects to a young sporting hero who died suddenly.

Brendan “Bawnie” O’Driscoll, died at the age of 28 after collapsing while playing for Annascaul in a West Kerry Championship quarter-final against neighbours Lispole, the previous Sunday.

In one of the biggest funerals ever seen in West Kerry,