Anthony Foley Funeral: ‘I honestly don’t remember a state funeral as big’

It was the type of reunion the rugby fraternity never thought would happen.

Wherever you turned in the beautiful village of Killaloe yesterday morning, there was a rugby stalwart, players past and present who had lined out for Munster, Leinster, Ireland, and beyond.

Suitably, given that Anthony Foley’s career bridged the last remnants of the amateur era and into the supreme athleticism of the professional era, those gathered in this corner of Co Clare bridged the decades.