Maureen Grimes: The GAA club president who washed, folded, and ironed the jerseys

How fitting it was that the coffin carrying Maureen Grimes should be draped by a Douglas GAA flag as the club’s former president began her final journey on Saturday.

Standing outside St Columba’s church, where the funeral mass of Mrs Grimes took place, were numerous members of her beloved club, each one sporting the club’s colours, ready and waiting to provide a guard of honour and a final goodbye to a woman who has been described “as a complete and utter matriarch” of the club.