Niall ‘had friends in every county’
Car plate found after hit-and-run
He celebrates with Gregory Vignal
GAA coach Niall Mceneaney was “everybody’s favourite” who had “friends in every county in Ireland”, his funeral heard yesterday.
Many of the mourners at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Drogheda, Co Louth wore the GAA jerseys of the clubs Niall represented as a player and coach throughout a distinguished career,
They were told of a dedicated hurling man who loved dogs and making connections, and was a devoted partner to his wife, Grace.
Speaking in a moving eulogy at the end of the funeral mass, Niall’s brother Brian said Niall was “always joking and
Lining up with Steven Gerrard
Sven signs autograph making people laugh” and through his hurling career with his club, county and in Maynooth University, he made “friends in every county in Ireland”.
Brian said that, having had a “front row seat” to Niall’s life, he had never seen him happier than when he proposed to his wife, Grace, whom he married outside Rome in 2019.
He hailed his brother as a beloved “son, brother, uncle, cousin, friend, dog-lover
Mceneaney and husband” and said that he was “everybody’s favourite”.
Niall’s funeral took place after it emerged that a plate from the vehicle suspected of having been involved in the hit-andrun in which he was killed was discovered at the scene. This vital piece of evidence enabled investigators to trace the owner of the suspected vehicle that is alleged to have fatally struck him in the early hours of last Sunday.
At last for Sven
The vehicle involved – a private car registered to a off-duty garda – failed to remain at the location.
The off-duty garda under investigation has been suspended but has not been arrested as investigations continue.
This comes as The Garda Ombudsman Commission continues to interview a number of gardai witnesses.
Mr Mceneaney, who managed Termonfeckin club St Fechin’s to the last two Louth senior hiring championship titles, was found unresponsive shortly after 2.40am on the Rathmullen Road in Drogheda, Co Louth and was pronounced dead following the arrival of emergency services. news@irishmirror.ie