“WARM, KIND, GENEROUS and loving.” The words of Kate Murray at the funeral of her father, broadcaster Colm Murray in St. Gabriel’s Church in Dollymount today.

Family, friends and colleagues gathered to remember Murray at a funeral mass celebrated by Father Jimmy Murray.

Murray’s wife Ann and daughters Patricia and Kate were the chief mourners at the funeral along with his sister Mary with Kate delivering an emotional eulogy before the congregation.

“My Dad loved people and he loved meeting people and taking to people,” she said.

We remember so well his ability to tell a good story and he never let the truth get in the way of a good story. We are heartbroken and we will miss him every single day.

Murray passed away at the age of 61 on Monday following a three-year battle with motor neurone disease. Many of his former colleagues were present at the funeral along with some of the major names from Irish sport and politics.

President Michael D. Higgins was among those in attendance with an Taoiseach Enda Kenny represented by his aide de camp.