Hero’s welcome awaits Heffernan

World Champion Robert Heffernan is to be welcomed home to his native Cork tonight with an open top bus parade through St Patrick’s Street.

The office of Lord Mayor off Cork Catherine Clancy confirmed that the City Council planned, in co-operation with Bus Éireann and An Garda Síochána, to parade the gold medal walker through the main street of Cork so the people of his home city could come out and welcome him home.