DAMIAN WHITE
“Phone the parish Priest of Killeigh”, she gasped, struggling to contain the excitement.
2018 stories
GERALDINE BYRNE
“Bees bring back many happy memories and a little honey when the sun shines!”
BERNARD COSTELLO
“Don’t leave it too late to put your arms around your kids and tell…
ADRIAN LARKIN
“I moved to Canada the day after I finished my Leaving Cert in 1979…
ROSEMARIE LALOR
“Perth was amazing, a beautiful city with great career opportunities, but there’s no place…
PATTI McCANN
“Back in 1996, both Ber and I were working in another flower shop in…
GER HENSEY
“In the mid-1980s, I started cross-country training at Tullamore Harriers but soon realised I…
PADDY CLOONAN
“I started my Leaving Cert on my 16th birthday. After Christmas in 5th year,…
PAT CORNALLY
“My Dad was never around when I was growing up, but it didn’t matter…
JAMES O’CONNOR
“I got involved with the Green Ribbon Campaign three years ago after sharing my…
JAMIE
“I started playing rugby when I was 5 when my uncle James brought me…
KEVIN FARRELL
“I’m not inclined to call it work because 19 years on, I still love…
SARAH FITZGERALD
“The word people have always used to describe me is ‘stubborn’. I was stubborn…
TOMMY CONWAY
“It probably all started for me with my Da’s cable ties. In secondary school,…
JERRY O’REILLY
“Daddy came from outside Kinnegad in Co. Westmeath. Every Christmas, he and his father…
RAY FLANNERY
“I’m longer in Dublin than Offaly but a proud Offaly man. I still refer…
MARTIN BRACKEN
“I left school when I wasn’t yet 15. On the 4th of August 1959,…
JIM HEFFERNAN
“I was an average kid going to school. I won’t say I came from…
PATRICK BYRNE
“I had no interest in going to America, but encouraged by my Dad; I…
MARIE RYAN-O’BRIEN
“I was told when I was four that I was adopted. I was placed…
FRANK MCEVOY
“The ethos of our Killeigh School Boys/Girls Soccer Club is to look after the…
FRED MATHEWS
“I’ll be 86 on Saturday, but my life began at 80, and it gets…
PEGGY PHELAN
“I met my husband at my sister’s wedding. My sister’s husband was his cousin,…