In memory of Albert Reynolds: ’A man who was rooted in the real’

Politicians of all hues paid their respects to Albert the peacemaker as thousands gathered to say their final goodbye to the former taoiseach.

From early afternoon on Saturday, a long queue stretched around the block from the Mansion House in Dublin city centre, where Mr Reynolds’s remains lay in repose.

The crowds included members of the public who travelled from Mr Reynolds’s native Longford, some who had come from the North, and even ambling shoppers in town who decided to pay their final respects.