Anthony Foley: Ireland’s warrior lies in repose with an emperor

Anthony Foley would be impressed.

His final hours yesterday and today in St Flannan’s Church, Killaloe, were spent on the spot where Brian Boru, emperor of Ireland, once reigned.

Brian Boru, we are told, “liberated Ireland from the threat of foreign domination” from his Palace of Kincora, which was located on the site of St Flannan’s.