Hutch family bid farewell to ‘Neddy’ with 'simple and unshowy' funeral service

Amid the pleas for a return to normality in inner city Dublin, the Hutch family tried to lead by example.

Hutch family bid farewell to ‘Neddy’ with 'simple and unshowy' funeral service

Compared to the ostentation of David Byrne’s funeral on Monday, their farewell to Edward, Neddy as he was known, was as simple and unshowy as possible in the circumstances.

His timber coffin was carried to Our Lady of Lourdes Church on Sean McDermott St, around the corner from his sister’s house where he had been waked, the taxi sign from the roof of his cab perched on top.

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