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20 February, 2021 01:00
FATHER Anthony Davies was ordained to the priesthood in May 1959 and six months later won a Down senior football championship medal.
The irony was that this son of Armagh should have been overseas instead of beginning more than 60 years of parish devotion in the neighbouring diocese of Dromore.
Born into a family of 12 children in Tandragee in 1932, the young Anthony attended the local St James Primary School and progressed to St Patrick’s, Armagh.
Following his studies in the cathedral city he left the archdiocese for St Peter’s College, Wexford – and never really returned.
Earmarked for missionary work in Australia, he was refused a visa to travel on health grounds as he had suffered from TB during his youth.