Riders unite to honour Darragh

THE showjumping community united in sorrow yesterday as one of the sport’s legends, Paul Darragh, was laid to rest.

In inclement weather, hundreds of friends and the sport’s top personalities gathered to pay their final respects at Rathfeigh Church, Co Meath.

Present were world champion Dermott Lennon, double European champion Peter Charles and Trevor Coyle. Eddie Macken, the Irish Olympic showjumping team trainer and a sporting rival of Darragh’s in the 1970s, travelled from his home in Canada.