Tributes paid as Eric laid to rest after horse fall

“You had a smile for everyone, hands for boxing and a face for the ladies. We can’t picture our family without you.”

This was one of the many moving tributes paid yesterday by the siblings of tragic teenager, Eric Stanton, 15, from Mayfield in Cork City, who died after falling from a horse into the Glashaboy river in Riverstown on Saturday.

Choking back tears, his older sister, Amy, read the tributes from the altar of St Joseph’s Church after Requiem Mass.