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The late Frankie Duffy, Teffia Park, Longford Town, Longford
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Described as ‘one of life’s real gentlemen’ and an ‘accomplished hurler’, the sudden and untimely death of Frankie Duffy, Teffia Park, Longford town on Tuesday, July 13, saddened the local community and beyond.
Paying tribute to the late Frankie, Longford Slashers Hurling Club said, “Only in his early fifties, Frankie had battled illness bravely in the recent past but his sudden untimely passing still shocked us all when the sad news broke late on Tuesday evening.”
‘Big Tom doesn’t play here anymore’: Longford bids farewell to the greatest of Shams
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Longford came out in force on Sunday to bid farewell to a favourite son. Had it not been for Covid-19 they were estimating that as many as 5,000 would descend on St Mel’s Cathedral.
But it was probably the measure of a man who won the hearts of a county that they still came out, and in line with public health guidelines, positioned themselves on every street corner as the greatest of Shams made his final journey.
It was a simply extraordinary show of affection for a man who captured the hearts of a county.