John Curry was “A man whose only quiet boast was that he was an altar boy from his childhood in Knock to his death at Sacred Heart home with the Little Sisters of the Poor – rarely if ever missing daily Mass – and Holy Communion.”

The purpose of the pilgrimage is to have the remains of the youngest witness to the Knock apparition reinterred at Old St Patrick’s Cathedral, New York.

Brother Michael Burke died after the car he was driving collided with a truck on the N62 at Cloghan on Thursday afternoon.

Priest tells mourners at funeral Mass for Christy O'Connor Jnr in Galway Cathedral, "His leaving has left our world a poorer place. He was one in a million!”