Strengthening the game in Kilkenny - O Loughlin Gaels team up with Eurospar Newpark
McCarthy’s Eurospar, Newpark Shopping Centre, have signed up as sponsor to the O’Loughlin Gaels juvenile teams
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ABOVE: Pictured at the sponsorship announcement were (from left:) Brian Fox, Juvenile Club Chairman; Johnny Holohan, club chairman; James & Miriam McCarthy, Eurospar and Eoin Lawlor, club PRO
O’Loughlin Gaels GAA club have announced that McCarthy’s Eurospar, Newpark Shopping Centre, have signed up as sponsor to their juvenile teams.
The club’s near-neighbours have been actively involved with O’Loughlin Gaels for many seasons now, with their support vital in facilitating team activities.
After he went missing, we never heard from him or saw him again. It seemed like he just disappeared off the face of the Earth. A group of friends we used to share believed he must have emigrated to America, but we weren t sure and we never found out what happened. Then, when I saw the newspaper articles and photographs last week, I thought, Here is a man with the same name as Michael and with strikingly similar features. I dug out the old photos of him when he was the best man at my wedding and they looked very alike.
The University College Dublin (UCD) flag was flown at half mast last week following the death of Michael Byrne.
There is very little known about the elusive figure who frequented the university s campus and affectionately became known as Old Man Belfield , but what is clear is that he lived outdoors for at least 50 years.
In the 1970s Miriam McCarthy, a local woman who volunteered with Dublin s Simon Community, came upon the solitary figure on a run-down site near St Vincent s Hospital in Dublin 4 and approached to offer help, but her attempts at conversation were met with silence.
As the weeks went on she brought food and hot drinks to his makeshift hut, but quickly realised he was deeply private and independent and so kept an eye from a distance, becoming an unofficial guardian of sorts.