Anthony Foley Funeral: ‘Our boys will grow up decent, solid men, full of integrity and honesty, like their dad’

You have to wonder if the ancient hill of Killaloe had ever heard such beautiful words, so touchingly spoken.

As the soft autumn sun threw its light over St Flannan’s Church, Olive Foley opened up about the extent of her grief at the loss of her husband Anthony, and set the tone for the years and decades that are to follow.

As the crowd inside and outside the church listened intently, her eulogy for the man everyone else knew as Axel held us in a spell.