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'I don't know why I decided to go to university in Galway, but I am certainly glad that I did'
I don't know why I decided to go to university in Galway, but I am certainly glad that I did. In 1965 Galway and its university were both small and friendly. I shared accommodation with six other students in a house on Prospect Hill, near Eyre…
Tags: Galway University, hurling, Salthill, teaching
'We had names for the different stages of our journey to school: the belly tree, the six trees, Luby 's hill and Johnnie 's boreen'
I fell and cut my knees on my first morning going to Johnstown national school. Johnstown school was in Delvin parish - it has since been closed. We were living in Taughmon parish. It was to Johnstown that daddy had gone for the full three years and…
Clonkill hurling team, late 1960s
A photo of Clonkill hurling team in the late 1960's with Frank Gaynor in the back row, third from the right
Tags: GAA, hurling, Hurling Club, team