I’ve lived in Killeigh all my life. I love the village and it is a very special place to be part of. My father Tommy Feery was from Castlebrack and my mot.
I’ve lived in Killeigh all my life. I love the village and it is a very special place to be part of. My father Tommy Feery was from Castlebrack and my mot.
Shock at sudden death of popular Offaly man
Daingean native Jordan was a talented footballer and soccer player
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Paul Jordan, third from left on front row, with Daingean in the 1980s. Picture: Daingean GAA website. );
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NEWS of the sudden and untimely death of a talented former sports man today has stunned the many people who knew, liked and admired him.
Paul Jordan was a native of Daingean and lived in Killeenmore, Killeigh for several years. In his early 50s, he was very well known in his native area, adopted home and the town of Tullamore where he worked for most of his life.
Memories of a half century of life in an Offaly village
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This week, Pat McCafferkey remembers five decades of life in Killeigh in the ongoing “People of Kileigh & Beyond” series.
My mother was a Hanley from Claremorris and met my father, a builder from Ballycroy, when she starting working in his local post office. They moved to Dublin in 1938; where my father continued in the building trade while my mother bought and ran a post office/drapery shop in Glasnevin. While the drapery shop is long gone, I believe there’s still a post office there.
With World War II escalating, my parents bought a farm in Athleague, Co. Roscommon and moved there shortly after I was born in 1940. Sadly, my mother fell ill with cancer and passed away in 1946. Soon after my father and I moved back to Dublin, he returned to building while I attended school at Passion Convent and then Marino School in Clontarf. My favourite subjects were History, Geography and English and to this day,