VIDEO: Honouring Jim Forbes, ‘an extraordinary gentleman’

HE was a local, provincial, and national GAA administrator of substance and vision, but Jim Forbes was happiest in the wind and rain at an Under-14 match, his son Killian told family and friends at the Carrigaline man’s funeral yesterday.

Former Cork County Board chairman Forbes was laid to rest yesterday in St John’s Cemetery in Ballinrea.

His funeral took place in Church of Our Lady and St John in Carrigaline where Father Pat Fogarty remembering Forbes as a “leader and a visionary”.