A large crowd attended the funeral mass of Irish language revolutionary, Gearóíd Ó Cairealláin, who died last Friday following a short illness. He was 67.
The mass took place in St Peter’s Cathedral in his native west Belfast.
He was a journalist, broadcaster, actor and a hard-working Gael.
He was one of the founders of the daily Irish language newspaper Lá, Ráidió Fáilte, Aising Ghéar, Cultúrlann McAdaim Ó Fiach, Coláite Feriste, the first Irish language secondary school in Northern Ireland and he was a former president of Conradh na Gaeilge.
In a statement, President Michael D Higgins said he was a major figure in the Irish language…