https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13470981/Inside-lavish-funeral-extremely-violent-Irish-gangster-buried-gold-coffin-cocaine-tributes-taunting-police-killed-car-crash.html
O'Reilly - who was in his 30s and from Athlone, County Westmeath - held convictions for burglaries and serious offences, and was regarded as a violent and dangerous criminal, according to BelfastLive.
But he was also described as having a 'heart of gold' by mourners - hence the extravagant colour of the coffin, which was carried by six men and a woman to Tina Turner's 'Simply the Best'.
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What a banger for a funeral song though.
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