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Graveside mourners hear John Bruton was a ‘statesman of unshakeable integrity’

Source: PA Media

Irish premier Leo Varadkar has paid tribute to former taoiseach John Bruton as “a statesman of unshakeable integrity and moral conviction” during a graveside oration.

Mr Varadkar said the former Fine Gael leader “loved Ireland”, not in a way that was “defined by dislike”, but in a form of “noble, true and modern patriotism”.

Full state funeral honours were accorded to Mr Bruton, with Irish soldiers carrying his coffin out of the church in

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