‘It’s not overstating to liken it to the Kennedy assassination in terms of its impact on the city’

A city stunned, a Taoiseach shocked, and the greatest one-liner ever at an Irish sporting funeral. Michael Moynihan revisits the passing of Christy Ring, 40 years ago today.

When Christy Ring passed away unexpectedly on Morrison’s Island on March 2, 1979, the news rippled out across Cork city and county almost immediately.