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First item on the agenda - what day shall we have it on this year?

Photos of the Past Very funny :)

6/11 with moustaches 7/11 with floral buttonholes and armbands ...

That's probably the Mayor at the time John J. Wyley who came up in previous discussions. He looks a bit more like 35 than the last candidate:

Do you know how St Patrick managed to get so much done? He had a very large staff.

GAEL LINN something MAR something CORN DO CHOMÓRTAS NÁISIÚNTA LIATHRÓID LÁIMHE

There is still a GAA handball club in Falcarragh

I think this gentleman might be Dick Lyng from Ballyanne in Wexford. More as we get it...

Dick Lyng in the RTÉ archive, and again.

Yep, it is. This photo appears in the Donegal News of Saturday, 17 April 1971. The caption says...

Mr. Richie Lyng from New Ross, Co. Wexford, who won the Gael-Linn sponsored All-Ireland handball championship at Falcarragh on Easter Sunday.

Strutting around here at Library Towers as that's people, well person, identified, and date established – Sunday, 11 April 1971.

Three priests - is that usual ?

beachcomber australia Rectors and curates, more likely. Heaslips generally are COI. There was a Jack Heaslip who was the curate in Malahide for a while, but he'd have been a generation later than this. Coincidentally, he was followed by a Mr Long (I can't remember his christian name). Edit: Kingsley Long - that was his name.

There is also a studio shot of the central four, if that is any help - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000595315

Mind you, in 1911, all the Kilkenny Longs and the only two Kilkenny Heaslips were RC, so maybe they're priests after all.

Narrowing the date very slightly, familysearch.org shows Jack John Heaslip marrying Eilis Long in the 4th quarter of 1952 in Thomastown registration district.