Kenny makes mother proud one last time

HIS voice catching with grief at the beginning and end, Enda Kenny was determined to hold things together for the eulogy so he could make his mother proud one final time.

Evocative imagery of the sea ebbed and flowed through the poignant 90-minute requiem service for Eithne Kenny. The Taoiseach recalled she had been born the daughter of a lighthouse keeper and that he had learned of her passing on Saturday while standing on the deck of a naval vessel, which had just rolled through force eight gales guided by the “white beam of hope and comfort” his mother would have known so well from her childhood.

A beautiful poem on the meaning of death noted that as a ship sails away those left behind do not see her anymore, but in a different place she is only just coming into view and being welcomed by others.