THE hearse carrying Glanmor Griffiths on his final journey made a detour through central Cardiff allowing the cortege to stop outside the Principality Stadium.
Traffic came to a brief standstill as the family of the former Welsh Rugby Union president paused outside his monumental creation en route to the funeral service at Llandaff Cathedral and burial in his home village, Blackmill.
As Griffiths was being laid to rest at the age of 83, word came through of the passing of one of his presidential successors, Dennis Gethin. A coalminer’s son from Seven
Sisters, he played for Ca...