Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Sinn Féin team in the Seanad wish to pay tribute to the former Senator and Cathaoirleach, Rory Kiely. I extend our deepest sympathies to Vincent, Roderick, Mairead, Aileen and his sister, Eileen, who are here today along with all who have travelled to be here and all of the Deputies, particularly Deputy Calleary, deputy leader of Fianna Fáil. It was only the week before he died that he travelled to Mayo to be at the funeral of Seán Calleary, Deputy Calleary's father. I did not know Rory Kiely but in respect of all the stories and how people spoke about him, to have words like "affable", "loyal" and "fair" associated with you is an honour for anybody. He was obviously a man of great character. I extend my sympathy to all of the Fianna Fáil party here and throughout the country, including Deputy Micheál Martin as leader. The Leas-Chathaoirleach knows that it is very unusual for me to stand up here and be nice to Fianna Fáil