The gloves of a kickboxer who died after a bout were placed on his coffin as he was buried near his home yesterday.
Mr Sean McBride (18), who died last weekend, was buried after Mass in St Joseph's Church, Cabragh, Dungannon, Co Tyrone. A wreath in the shape of a boxing champion's belt also accompanied the coffin.
Father James Crowley, parish priest, told hundreds of mourners how Mr McBride had been devastated just a few months earlier by the death of his best friend in a car crash.
