Christy O’Connor Sr ‘took on the world and won’

Christy O’Connor Sr was an Irish national treasure who took on golf’s global giants and beat them, his funeral has heard.

He was remembered as a devoted father, grandfather, and husband as well as a dedicated fundraiser for good causes who enjoyed nothing more than a glass of wine in the company of his beloved wife Mary.

Hundreds of mourners packed into St John the Baptist church in Clontarf, overlooking Dublin Bay, for a moving farewell to the man known overseas as Himself but at home as the father of Irish golf.