Stynes mourns old pal Wight

TRIBUTES have poured in for AFL pioneer Sean Wight, who has passed away at the age of 47 after a short battle with lung cancer.

The former Listowel Emmets man, who played with Kerry in the 1982 All-Ireland minor football final, was diagnosed in January and lost his brave fight in Melbourne’s Freemasons Hospital yesterday.

He was the first player recruited directly from Ireland by an AFL (then VFL) club when Melbourne Demons came calling 29 years ago and became a long-time clubmate of Jim Stynes, who has had his own battle with cancer in the past two years.