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learned yesterday that Mr Daffy’s generosity helped prevent two of Clare’s most illustrious soccer clubs from going out of business.
“But for Gerry, both Lifford and Avenue would have found it very hard to keep going. We had nowhere else to go and without him helping us out with a venue we probably would have hit the wall. Lifford owes him a big debth of gratitude,” said John O’ Neill of Lifford FC.
At his funeral on Sunday a horse- back guard of honour was formed by the Turkey Trotters, the Clare Hounds and fellow volunteers from
Hope Project. The last post on bugle was sounded by James Carmody.
A churchgate collection which Gerry had arranged before his death went ahead on Sunday and raised more than €4,000.
Meanwhile on Saturday, Clonlara
native William Quane was one of four people killed in a road traffic ac- cident on the N7 between Borris-in- Ossory and Roscrea. Mr Quane was on his way to the Ireland-Italy rugby match when the accident took place. His friend Séan O’ Donoghue from
Limerick was also killed in the ac- cident as was Polish man David Dziemianowicz and Italian woman Marika Rossi.