by irishbeo | Apr 27, 2020 | Kilconieron Stories
Fr. Vincent Lawless played hurling for Kilconieron Junior’s during the 1950’s. Unusual for the time, no person from the parish had become a priest for 100 years until his ordination in 1957, which local tradition believed broke a...
by irishbeo | Apr 27, 2020 | Kilconieron Stories
In the final part of his interview with Michael Fahy, Lenny Connaughton waxes eloquently on the values that he has endeavoured to live by and that he feels is best summarised in the old Irish ‘seanfhocail’ of “Mol an Óige agus Tiocfaidh...
by irishbeo | Apr 27, 2020 | Kilconieron Stories
In the second part of his interview with Michael Fahy, Lenny Connaughton expresses his sadness at the lost sporting opportunities denied to the players of his youth by the harsh realities of emigration and by the decision of the powers-that-be to split...
by irishbeo | Apr 27, 2020 | Kilconieron Stories
Lenny Connaughton from Clostoken hurled for Clostoken, Kilconieron and Loughrea during the early 1960s .His family shop was the hub of the parish. Sunday hurling in an adjacent field was followed by players & spectators descending on the shop for ice cream...
by irishbeo | Apr 27, 2020 | Kilconieron Stories
Mickey Connaughton, former Clostoken and Galway hurler, was a member of the 1962 Galway Intermediate team that won the Munster Intermediate Championship. In this episode Mickey discusses the circumstances of the eye injury that forced him to prematurely end his...
