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           2019  Mourners Pay Tribute To Philomena Lynott                                    30kgs Of Tobacco Seized In
                                                                                                Shannon And Limerick
           19th,  At Funeral In Dublin                                                       30kgs of ‘Amber Leaf’ tobacco in        C
                                                                                               Revenue officers have seized
           June    ournersatthefuneralof riage pulled by two white  what he did to her, but it was  Shannon and Limerick.
                   Philomena Lynott, the horses.
                                                                 always because she loved
                                                                                               The unstamped tobacco had a
           |  Mmother of Thin Lizzy      A wreath was signed from  him so much,” Fr Bryan    retail value of over €15,400, repre-  President & Founding
                                                                                                                                       Publisher
           EXAMINER  heartbroken and crushed when Clayton, and many of the  tion.            €12,900.                                 Grahame Curtis
            frontmanPhil,haveheardshewas Bono, the Edge and Adam
                                                                 Shortall told the congrega-
                                                                                                                                      Paddy McCarthy
                                                                                             senting a loss to the Exchequer of
                                                                                                                                         Editor
            hersondiedasayoungman.
                                      mourners wore Thin Lizzy
                                                                   He described her as a
                                                                                               Last week, 12kgs of tobacco
                                      T-shirts.
                                                                 mother who genuinely put
              But they were told she
                                                                                             were seized following routine
                                         Phil Lynott died in 1986,
           IRISH  made sure that her son’s lega-  and a bronze statue of him  people first, and said she was  operations in Shannon and offi-  Associate Publisher
                                                                                                                                      Marc-Yves Tumin
                                                                 devoted to her son.
            cy as an artist, musician and a
                                                                                             cers seized 18kgs of tobacco fol-
                                      stands just off Grafton Street
                                                                                                                                      News Editor
            poet was firmly passed on
                                                                   “She lived her life at the
            over the last 30 years.   in Dublin.                 service of others despite the  lowing a search of a shop and an       David Carter
                                                                                             adjoining house in Limerick City.
              Ms   Lynott   died  on     Friends and family of Ms  difficulties and struggles that  A woman in her 30s was inter-  Arts & Entertainment Editor
            Wednesday, aged 88, after  Lynott heard that she was  came along,” Fr Shortall   viewed at the scene.                      Brad Balfour
            suffering from cancer.    “heartbroken” when her son  added.                       The seized tobacco was found           Sales Director
              The Dubliner’s funeral  died.                        “Certainly we all know of  in packages which had arrived            John O’Rourke
            service took place at St     “Philomena wasn’t afraid  her devotion to her beloved  from the Netherlands and were
            Fintan’s Church in Sutton in  to tell us that she was crushed  Philip.           destined   for   addresses   in      Classified Advertising
                                                                                                                                       John O’Rourke
            the capital on Monday.    and hurt when Philip died a  “In the last 33 years she  Limerick.
              Hot Press editor Niall  young man.                 made sure that his legacy as  Investigations are ongoing. C          Art Director
            Stokes, DJ and musician BP   “She talked of giving Phil’s  an artist, musician and a poet                                Heidi Gross Kelley
            Fallon, DJ Smiley Bolger,  gravestone a good kick for  was firmly passed on.”  C   Defense Forces To Spend                Contributors
                                                                                                                                 Joe Murphy, Joe Kavanagh, C.S.
            who was one of Phil’s closest                                                           €700k On New                 O’Brien, Mike Fitzpatrick, Seamus
            friends, and Dublin musician                                                              Motorcycles               Kelleher, Bert Randolph Sugar, John
            Brush Shiels were among                                                            The Defense Forces are to       Mooney, Neil McDaid, Aine Fox, Sean
                                                                                                                                McCarthy, Mike Bowen, Marc-Yves
            those who attended the serv-                                                     spend around €700,000 on a new     Tumin, Jack McGrath, Charley Brady,
            ice.                                                                             fleet of motorcycles.             Patrick Hurley, Catherine Wylie, Alicia
              President  Michael  D                                                            The 48 bikes will be used for   Colon, Jason Gallagher, Jackie Cahill, Bill
            Higgins was represented by                                                       ceremonial occasions as escorts of       Daly, Jim McKeon
            Commandant       Dorothy                                                         honor for dignitaries.             Contributing Photographers
            Donnelly, while Taoiseach                                                          Tenders have been put out to      Leo Doyle, Danny McCabe, Roger
                                                                                                                                         Wong
            Leo Varadkar was represent-                                                      replace the current fleet of 46
            ed by Captain Angela Lyons.                                                      Honda Deauville 700cc which               Circulation
                                                                                                                                     John Philip, Manager
              Ms Lynott’s coffin arrived                                                     were bought in 2008.                  North East - Paul Hamrock
            at the service in a white car-                                                                                         West Coast - Jim Clement
                                                                                               It is expected the new motorcy-
                                                                                             cles will be delivered to the             Historian
                 O’Dwyer & Bernstien, LLP                                                    Curragh in November. C                 Events Consultant
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