Full life of Peter Barry remembered at dignified ceremony

It was a simple and dignified ceremony, straight-forward and to the point with little or no fuss, one he himself would have been proud of.

President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Enda Kenny were among those who paid their final respects to former tánaiste and businessman, Peter Barry, at his Requiem Mass yesterday.

Up to 700 mourners packed into his local church, St Michael’s in Blackrock, where they heard Tony Barry pay tribute to his father — an architect of the peace process who led the expansion of the family business, Barry’s Tea, and who died in Cork on Friday following a short illness.