PJ MARA: Former governement press secretary to be laid to rest beside late wife

PJ Mara, the flamboyant former government press secretary, will be buried in Kinvara Co Galway tomorrow beside his late wife.

Warm tributes were paid yesterday to Mr Mara, who died aged 73 in the Beacon Hospital in south Dublin, where he had been ill for more than seven months.

Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern led tributes to Mr Mara, who died about 1am surrounded by his family.