One of the best friends I met in my life was John McConnell from county Meath. John grew up with a sister and nine brothers at Mitchelstown between Kells and Ardee. I also knew two of his brothers Kevin and Dickie. John told me that as a school boy he often drove cattle over the sixteen miles to the Dublin market. In his teens he did farm work with horses and later with tractors.
When Jane and I settled in Rugby we were very lucky to meet two other life-long friends.
They were Bill Mannion and his good wife Nuala. Bill was from Roscommon and Nuala from Tyrone. She was one of the distinguished Donnelly family of Lakeview House in Coagh. Her sister
Ethna was a respected matron in Larne hospital and so was Eve in Northampton. Another sister Creagh was married to John Black who was among the best helpers I met in the greyhound world. Her brother Brendan was a priest who served in Florida for twenty years and another brother Kevin operated a thriving nursery from their home.
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