A total of 40 per cent of Bankies who took part in a survey last week said Clydeside would be the best place for the memorial Bankies have backed a grieving family’s plea for a town memorial to lives lost to the Covid-19 pandemic. As reported by the Post last week, Patrick Rooney died at the age of 76 last year from the coronavirus leaving his family unable to properly mourn. They called for a memorial for loved ones and the community’s sacrifices and resilience through the pandemic - and the public, and businesses, have backed the idea. Tom Sheridan, boss of Clydebank Estate and Letting Agents, told the Post his firm would support and help fund a memorial to be erected.
Patrick Rooney was 76 when he passed away in September. But his family had to make the heartbreaking decision to say their goodbyes by video to the father of three, who had seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Months later, they still feel they didn’t get the chance to grieve properly and they, and other families, would benefit from a Clydebank memorial. Daughter Patricia Rooney, 56, told the Post: “It was heartbreaking - totally soul-destroying. “He was the head of the family. “It’s so unreal - as if we were cheated as a family. And we understand there’s a lot of families out there in the same predicament.
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St Eunan s Primary pupil Macie Savage created her picture of what the world in 2020 looked like compared to one before the pandemic Macie Savage is always drawing. Sometimes she can spend two hours a day creating art. But mum Linzi was shocked when Macie brought in an image of a green and blue globe for 2019, and a world on fire for 2020. “What does this side mean?” asks her mum. “Happiness,” Macie replies in a quiet, shy voice from behind her hair. “And this side?” “Sadness.” You’re right Macie. Yours is a one-image, one-word summary for a year that adults can, at best, describe as “weird”.