FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Funeral of Gordon Banks - Stoke Minster, Stoke-upon-Trent, Britain - March 4, 2019 Jack Charlton arrives for the funeral of former England World Cup winning goalkeeper Gordon Banks REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland mourned as one on Saturday former national soccer manager Jack Charlton, whose achievements transcended the sport and made him a hero despite hailing from old rivals England.
The English World Cup winner, who died at 85, took over the Irish team in 1986 when relations were tense with former colonial master Britain as sectarian conflict raged between pro-Irish Catholics and Protestants in British-run Northern Ireland.
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