Exemplary achievements - The path to success is well known

We saw again yesterday the relentless nature of life’s cycle — birth, growth, achievement, death, the pain of absence and then almost inevitably rejuvenation.

As one of the most charismatic and fondly regarded Irishmen of his time — Páidí Ó Sé — was buried in Ventry the talents, energy, ambitions and considerable achievements of a quartet of Irishmen probably too young to have seen Ó Sé win any of his eight All Ireland medals were honoured on the world stage.

Ó Sé, even in death, was singled out though. He got, according to West Kerry tradition, a Cuireadh na Nollag — a phrase describing a death around Christmas, an invitation to the afterlife particularly blessed in Irish lore.