Pat Geraghty was an adopted son of Munster

There are tributes and then there is the Donncha O’Callaghan variety, as hundreds of mourners learned yesterday at the funeral Mass for the late Munster Rugby media manager Pat Geraghty, 62, in Celbridge, Co Kildare.

The death notice of Geraghty, of Wheatfield, Ardclough, said he was of Kildare, Cork, and Limerick. He was from all Munster points between and beyond as well after he adopted the province and the province adopted him.

O’Callaghan spoke on behalf of hundreds of Munster players when he described the relationship between Geraghty and the athletes as fun-filled and one of great love.