Ireland unites in grief to support Hartes

AT SOME point this morning a middle-aged man in Northern Ireland will look in his wardrobe for a particular item of clothing, one that’s kept for specific occasions.

It may not be the same item he had to use almost 14 years ago, when one of the boys in his care died on the field of play.

It may not be the actual tie he had to wear to the burial of another young man some years ago — another one of his charges, someone else who died shockingly young in the middle of the night.