A convoy of Dublin bikers gathered together this afternoon to escort the hearse of Brian McFarlane, who tragically lost his life in a crash on the M50 almost two months ago.
Brian McFarlane and his friend Paul Ingram, English holidaymakers who were touring around Ireland, were tragically killed in the crash on the M50 on June 3. Both men were life-long bikers and well-known among the biking community in Ireland and the UK.
On Tuesday, a convoy of over 50 bikers escorted the hearse of biker Paul Ingram as he was repatriated back to his family in the UK. This afternoon, the bikers met at Dardistown Cemetery at 1:30pm to pay tribute to and escort the Harley Hearse carrying the remains of Brian McFarlane, who will be cremated.
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Speaking to Dublin Live, Mark Byrne, the organiser of the touching tribute for both bikers, said that they wanted to give the two men a guard of honour. "I'm a passionate biker myself and I drove by the scene when the accident happened, and it touched me. We're a biking community and I thought we'd do something nice for them," he added.
This afternoon, several bikers paid tribute to both Brian McFarlane and Paul Ingram. Speaking to Dublin Live, biker Henry Lee who is originally from Lucan in Dublin but retired to Wexford said that he came out today to show his respect to the two bikers who sadly passed away.
Henry said: "We came up today to show our respects to the lads that died, we're all bikers at the end of the day and that's it in a nutshell."
Fellow biker Bob Thomas from Blessington, who travelled up specially to take part in the escort this afternoon, said: "Today we're here to pay respects to two English bikers. The biking community is a large community throughout the world and unfortunately when we get an incident or accident all the bikers here especially in Ireland come together and pay tributes to the lads.
"And we hope that we can give them a good sending off for their families, and they remember what happened in Ireland with their biking club."
The convoy of bikers glided down to Dardistown Cemetery and Crematorium, escorting the Harley Hearse carrying the remains of Brian McFarlane. Once they reached the crematorium and the coffin was unloaded from the hearse, all of the bikers and Mr McFarlane's family gave a round of applause in his memory.
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