David Flynn

Stories by David Flynn

Below are recent stories by David Flynn

• Published: 18 Jan 2012 17:00

  Making music

  Kevin Sheerin is still enjoying a music career that spans the Eurovision and Daniel O'Donnell, as DAVID FLYNN discovered.

• Published: 4 Jan 2012 17:00

  Serving at home and overseas

  Pat McCrossan has had a varied career with the Defence Forces and despite having retired in 1996, his connection with the army in Athlone continues to this day, as DAVID FLYNN found out.

• Published: 23 Nov 2011 17:00

  A sporting life

  Sport has been at the centre of Frances Milling's life since her days as a young girl in Donegal as DAVID FLYNN discovered

• Published: 9 Nov 2011 16:45

  A passion for art

  Art, design and creation have been at the heart of Phyl Staunton's life in Athlone, since she first came to the town 40 odd years ago.

• Published: 12 Oct 2011 17:00

  A GAA life

  Dermot Ryan was steeped in the GAA in his native Moneygall before his move to Athlone, as DAVID FLYNN learned.

• Published: 20 Jul 2011 17:30

  Ollie Moore loses out on becoming mayor

  Taughmaconnell's Cllr Ollie Moore (FG) lost out on becoming Mayor of Roscommon this week after the Fine Gael/Hospital Action Group pact that came into play last year fell apart on the back of the hospital issue.

• Published: 20 Jul 2011 09:30

  A sporting life

  Sport is his life. It has enriched his life since his early days growing up in Coosan over 30 years ago.

• Published: 22 Jun 2011 17:00

  Remembering Anco

  Michael Fitzgerald had only ever wanted to be an engineer, and succeeded in that role with a leading company in Wales in the 1950s and with Bord na Mona in the Irish midlands in the 1960s.

• Published: 8 Jun 2011 17:00

  An Athlone Life

  An Athlone woman, who is an inspiration to people many decades her junior, has overcome setbacks to regain her active quality of life.

• Published: 18 May 2011 17:00

  A modern vocation

  It seems like life was leading Joe Campbell to the priesthood. He had lived his first 25 years in a similar mode to his peers, with football and socialising, but that life also included much praying, and very regular mass-going.

• Published: 30 Mar 2011 17:00

  An Athlone Life

  Having lived in Athlone for all of her life, bar four years, Frances Lynch has seen much change and progress in her native area.

• Published: 26 Jan 2011 16:40

  The Wineport centenarian

  He has the feet of a dancer and has lived a life of hard work, and joy, throughout the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Civil War, and the two world wars of the last century.

• Published: 22 Dec 2010 09:30

  A friar’s life

  A popular Athlone-based friar admits to living a life of instability living of no fixed abode, despite having spent more than a decade here in the midlands.

• Published: 17 Nov 2010 17:00

  The jolly railway man

  Noel Flynn will be forever defined by his lengthy career at Athlone Railway Station.

• Published: 15 Sep 2010 16:00

  A Civil War Baby

  From her infant days during the Civil War to her 60 years spent in Altown, Kathleen Devery talks to DAVID FLYNN about her memories of Athlone over the past nine decades.

• Last updated: 18 Aug 2010 17:00

  The musical soldier

  Austin Berry has spent a lifetime promoting the army and trad music.

• Published: 4 Aug 2010 17:00

  A passion for history

  Cecil English is part of a local family with deep roots in South Westmeath.

• Published: 14 Jul 2010 17:00

  Happy memories of community spirit

  Most of St Mel's Terrace has been demolished, but one man who lived there from the time of its inception in 1934, for almost 70 years, bears happy memories of a community that has largely passed away.

• Published: 30 Jun 2010 19:15

  The life of an Athlone playwright

  One of Athlone's best kept secret literary talents was revealed over seven years ago, when a local woman wrote and produced her first play, 'The Sleeveens'.

• Published: 12 May 2010 17:00

  Connaught Street's memory man

  He has memories of his home street in Athlone going back over 75 years, to a time when horse fairs were part of the main business in January in a street which had almost 70 businesses, with most families living on their premises.

• Published: 28 Apr 2010 17:15

  Roscommon agrees to lobby for childcare rates cut

  Members of Roscommon County Council this week agreed to lobby the government for the removal of business rates from private child care centres.

• Published: 28 Apr 2010 17:00

  Garrycastle's own retailer

  With over 50 years involvement in a family shop and as a driving force in the local GAA scene, Seamus (affectionately known by everyone as Seamie) Nugent is one of Athlone's most recognisable figures.

• Published: 31 Mar 2010 17:00

  Remembering a Coosan childhood

  Angela Buckley is the last member of her immediate family, still living, although she has scores of relatives, including her own children, grandchildren, in-laws and nieces and nephews.

• Published: 24 Mar 2010 17:00

  A real work ethic

  The centre of Kitty Brilley's life for all of her life has been her family and her more than five decades working in various places, most notably her years as a cook in the former Royal Hoey Hotel.

• Published: 27 Jan 2010 17:03

  Recalling Athlone's mineral water tradition

  Paddy Martin has, with pleasure on his part, dedicated so much of his time and energy to the Athlone town football club, that the club recently saw fit to honour him for that fifty five years of dedication.

• Published: 13 Jan 2010 17:00

  A singer proud of her street and town

  "THERE has always been a lot of talent in Athlone town, in music, drama and football, and if I might say, my own home terrace of Sarsfield Square, hasn't been behind the door in producing great talent," said popular local singer, Brenda McMonagle.