Joe Dolan remembered in Mullingar
To a greater extent than 2,000 multitude gathered at the Duomo of The Nazarene the King in Mullingar for the funeral of the singer and entertainer Joe Dolan.
Among the start to come at the funeral this dawn were leading figures in the Irish people amusement manufacture, including Paddy Kail, Dicky-seat Rock, Ronnie John Drew, Brendan Goodwill and Oliver Barry.
The homily at the Dirge Raft was delivered by the Fr Brian Darcy.
The mourners heard how the 68-year-old singer secretly gave tens of thousands of euro to the poor during his career.
Speech production to a assemblage at the Cathederal, Fr Darcy said Dolan had wanted the donations to persist buck private throughout his liveliness.
Fr Darcy said that Dolan and his band were pioneers of the Celtic language Tiger epoch because they brought pleasure and amusement to a very dull country in the sixties.
The interment after the funeral mass was in Walshestown Necropolis.
