Former State pathologist John Harbison who died last Friday aged 84 was “warm, funny and humane ” recalled his daughter Isobel at his funeral service this afternoon. we say goodbye to John, standing beneath what astronomers call ‘the great conjunction’ ” she told mourners at the crematorium chapel, Glasnevin, Dublin. He recalled that his brother became State pathologist in 1974 when Fine Gael senator Billy Fox was murdered by the IRA close to the border in Co Cavan. “The then State pathologist Maurice Hickey refused to do the autopsy as he feared for his own life. to start his career as State pathologist.

Source: The Irish Times December 21, 2020 18:56 UTC