‘The best for the best, you always did make an entrance’ Stephen Reilly's final journey These extraordinary images show the gold coffin of career criminal Stephen Reilly (O’Reilly) being paraded through Athlone over the weekend. The still shots are from several videos posted on Facebook showing the coffin of the father-of-one, regarded as being one of the midlands’ most violent and dangerous criminals, being ferried through the town ahead of his funeral. In one scene mourners appear to struggle to carry the coffin into the garden of a house.
The coffin is then lifted and passed through the front window to shouts of “go on Reilly”. In another, young men remove the coffin from the hearse while the Tina Turner song ‘You’re Simply the Best’ is blasted in the background. The gold coffin is taken from the hearse Other scenes show the coffin being driven through the town while a high-powered motorbike roars down a narrow road behind the hearse.
“We got you home big man,” the post reads. “The best for the best, you always did make an entrance.” In the comments section people applauded the spectacle with one writing: “What a beautiful way to bring him home.
Rip to Reilly n’ condolences to all his family n’ friends.” Another adds: “Rest in peace Reilly you were always a very good mate of mine and we done some amount of things together whenever we (were) free men and not locked up in 1 of the jails lol. The gold coffin can be seen in the back of the h.
