Kenny makes mother proud one last 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.
