<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567602" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Passing Of Dave Sheehan</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dave Sheehan worked for the Cork County Council and I'd known him since I was a Primary school going boy<br>A gentle soul one who kept a low profile and one might say he would not harm a fly<br>All those he came in contact with seemed to like him and a bad word of him not one had to say<br>For a big family a good bread winner and he worked hard till his retirement day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One of the founder members of the Slanan Rovers a Gaelic Football Club in the Parish of Millstreet<br>When Slanan won the day he felt so happy though he was one who too smiled in defeat<br>The Slanan Rovers as a Club now defunct but nothing lasts for forever so they say<br>Perhaps the Club lost out to emigration the migrant boats took the young men away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I last spoke to Dave Sheehan in the mid eighties and that's going back some two decades ago<br>In mid November in the Town of Millstreet the weather it was cold enough to snow<br>We talked about the birth of Slanan Rovers in Cloghoula where the Finnow waters flow<br>He and Neil Lehane and Danny Healy and Frank Riordan founder members from their ideas a Football Club did grow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the green country side around Cloghoula the young men they went off to live elsewhere<br>And the Slanan Rovers Club for lack of numbers was quick to founder into disrepair<br>The older players had been getting older and the young men had their own dreams to pursue<br>And another Gaelic Club went from Duhallow that without players the Club won't survive seems so true.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dave Sheehan from Carrigacooleen gone forever in quiet old St Mary's he now lay<br>But in Duhallow he won't be forgotten and his soul will live for forever and a day<br>A gentleman and liked by all who knew him in life he never made an enemy<br>And sad to think that when I return to Millstreet that he is one I never more will see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567602" data-title="On The Passing Of Dave Sheehan de Francis Duggan" data-description="Dave Sheehan worked for the Cork County Council and I'd known him since I was a Primary school going boy A gentle soul one who kept a low profile and one might say he would not harm a fly All those he came in contact with seemed to like him and a ..."></div> </div> </div>

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