“It’s like as if something happened from outside of ourselves. There are no words to kind of describe what happened. Your head keeps going over it, saying: Did it really happen? My heart goes out to their family because these are our own people.”Not that the shocking event was the first or only tragedy to befall the Hennessy family.
Said one former teammate: “I hurled with all four of the lads. They were grand, quiet fellows. I would put them down as old-type fellows with old-style values who lived a very simple life, so this is totally out of the blue and very tough for the people left behind.” “They were the kind of fellows that would have one car – one of them would do the driving and bring the rest of them. Johnny used to drop into the Ramble Inn in Mitchelstown for a bite of grub and a pint, but none of them were big drinking men and I never in my life saw any of them drunk.
“Paddy used to work in JD Tyres and Willie and Johnny worked away on the farm. They might buy a few round bales of hay and re-bale them into small square bales and sell them on and they used to sell kindling too. The farmhouse was very basic and the men themselves were very basic as well.
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