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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Conor Gogarty

Fleet of luxury cars, huge floral tributes and Irish tricolour coffin as hundreds bid farewell to 'legend' at funeral

Hundreds paid their respects to a massively popular builder at a huge funeral filled with colour, song and beautiful tributes.

Dad-of-two and granddad-of-four Mike O’Brian - who was as proud of his Cardiff and Swansea upbringing in Wales as his Irish heritage - died of a heart attack two weeks ago at the age of 44.

His funeral took place on Thursday with more than 20 luxury cars forming a cortège at the Cardiff Oratory church in Splott before Mike was buried at Western Cemetery in Ely, Wales Online reports.

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