Cork jockey Michael O’Sullivan 'won the hearts of the Irish people', funeral told

The service heard Michael's family had had to make 'the most difficult decision of their life' to donate their son’s organs 'so others might live'

Michael O'Sullivan’s funeral procession led by friends and family and one of his beloved horses outside St John the Baptist Church, in Lombardstown, Co Cork. Picture: Chani Anderson

Cork jockey Michael “Mikey” O’Sullivan packed more into his 24 years than most could pack into two lifetimes.

That was how the Cheltenham Festival-winning rider was remembered at his funeral on Wednesday by the chief celebrant, the Very Reverend Gerard Coleman.