VIDEO: They wept for a departed friend: Farewell Jimmy Doyle

THURLES, but not as we know it.

All roads in the Tipperary town yesterday led in the general direction of the sportsground, a trip the car makes with the easy familiarity of Barry Fitzgerald’s horse in The Quiet Man.

However, at the last minute, we veered not into Semple Stadium but into the Church of St Joseph and St Brigid, across the road from it, to say goodbye to Jimmy Doyle.