02/09/2013

Funeral Of Poet Seamus Heaney Held In Donnybrook

The funeral of poet Seamus Heaney has taken place at Sacred heart Church in Donnybrook.

President Michael D Higgins, Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Brian Friel joined his widow Marie and children Michael, Christopher and Catherine Ann for the funeral mass of the writer, who died unexpectedly in a Dublin hospital on Friday. He was 74.

One of Mr Heaney's own poems, the Given Note, was read at the end of the service.

The acclaimed poet will be buried later today in his native Bellaghy in Co Derry.

(MH/CD)

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