From punches to punchlines

A last word on Con Houlihan?

From punches to punchlines

That won’t happen for a long, long time, at least not until all the words in the world have finally run out.

Mind, we exhausted a fair few of them on Wednesday, when Con was given a memorable send-off in Dublin. His great comrade Ray Hennessy set the bar high with a wonderful eulogy, by turns funny and moving, in St Kevin’s Church on Harrington Street, hard by the Houlihan fastness in Portobello.

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