Christy’s funeral cortege will take a circular route through Finglas on Saturday morning
Thousands of mourners are expected to line the streets on Saturday to bid a final farewell to Christy Dignam as he is laid to rest.
Finbar Furey, Bono, Imelda May and Christy’s Aslan bandmates are some of the well-known faces expected to attend the funeral of the Northside Dublin singing legend - alongside his beloved wife, Kathryn, and daughter, Kiera.Christy passed away at home on Tuesday, aged 63, under his family’s loving care.
Eamonn said yesterday that it was “a huge honour“ to be invited to play the Uilleann pipes for Christy. Christy revealed that although he wasn’t particularly religious, he believed that "we are all spiritual beings in one sense or another”.He said his friend believed that “the more lessons that you learned, the nearer you got to Nirvana, until you became part of God.In the same interview Christy spoke about his admiration for his parents and how his father, Christy Snr, had supported 8 kids on an upholsterer's wage.
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