Anthony Foley: Munster flags bled from every windowsill

No ancient King of Kincora was ever more poignantly or powerfully mourned, writes Cormac McConnell

There is an aisle. It runs down the centre of Saint Flannan’s church in the heart of the hilltop town of Killaloe, capital of Kincora of the ancient Irish kings even before Brian Boru. That aisle yesterday was the pitch for the first phase of the last play involving local sporting king Axel Foley as the plain people he grew up amongst to become a legend across the rugby world came out by the thousand to pay their respects.

No ancient King of Kincora was ever more poignantly or powerfully mourned.