A piece from The Irish Times yesterday on words spoken at the funeral Mass of Don Cockburn.
Alleluia for 'forbidden' eulogies at funeral Masses. Otherwise most likely we would never have heard such wonderful tales.
After tha heavy rain in Dublin yesterday the good Don would have been cycling standing up. Saddles were soaked wet.
His son John said his father, who died this week aged 87, was a devout Catholic who was “kind, constant, generous, beautiful, eccentric, enigmatic, infuriating, deep and unknowable”.
To laughter, he recalled his father pushing his car a short distance from their home at 5am as he left for RTÉ so as not to wake the neighbours, and to save the battery.
Mr Cockburn was a cyclist described on Twitter as the man who probably invented the cycle to work scheme. He was also green and recycling long before it came into vogue, including holding onto a Supervalu bag, with a hole in it, for about 15 years, his funeral heard. He sometimes cycled standing up to save the seat of his “good trousers” and his gardening was chaotic and based on the “Edenprinciple – let God do most of the work”, his son said.
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