Overview
- Family, colleagues and GAA figures gathered at the Victorian Chapel in Mount Jerome in Dublin for the service, with the President represented by an aide-de-camp.
- His son Jack delivered a eulogy that said his father “shone the brightest” at home and shared warm memories from their life together.
- Mourners placed personal items on the coffin, including a Led Zeppelin album, a hurley, rally gloves and a Corgi Monkeemobile model.
- Lyster joined RTÉ in 1979, anchored The Sunday Game for more than three decades and presented 77 All-Ireland finals before retiring in 2018.
- He is survived by his wife, Anne, his children Mark, Jack, Rebecca and Ellen, and his sister, Anne.