President Michael D Higgins will be among the mourners at the funeral of Seamus Heaney today.
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The Nobel Prize winning poet will be laid to rest in his native Bellaghy in County Derry this evening.
He died on Friday aged 74 – and books of condolence will remain open in Dublin, Belfast and Derry today. Seamus Heaney is survived by his wife Marie and his three children.

