Anthony Foley Funeral: The sound of slow heartbreak, rendered in simple but beautiful words
The crowd had started gathering early by the banks of Lough Derg to send Anthony Foley on his way — sporting stars, ministers and politicians, and locals for whom the man known as Axel was one of them — the hometown hero.
There was a sense of a state funeral about it — the state being Munster, a kingdom, its own dominion.
