Kieran Shannon: Trailblazer Moran showed us all that the mind does matter

He won’t get the kind of send-off we’re used to or that he deserves, writes Kieran Shannon.

HE won’t get the kind of send-off we’re used to or that he deserves.

All those students and now field leaders that he taught, mentored and befriended through the decades won’t get to be by his graveside. Household names like Padraig Harrington, Ken Doherty, Ronan O’Gara and John Maughan won’t be able to ghost into any removal or church to pay their respects and thanks. Even those friends who played five-a-side soccer and tennis with and against him or heard and accompanied him on his wooden flute won’t get to reminisce and laugh and cry together about his competitiveness, generosity and ceaseless curiosity.