WITH the passing of Colm Costello, his family and enormous circle of friends have lost a great and much-loved character whose battle brought out true community spirt and friendship.

Colm, the eldest of Paul and Mary Costello’s four children, had a rare autoimmune disorder, although it never affected him growing up in Aughnasheelin where he played GAA sports and developed a love of horses, inherited from his grandfather Eddie Dolan.