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Down: GAA founder's roots confirmed |
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Thursday, 12 November 2009 |
Researchers had established that one of the founders of the GAA was from the county, but after an appeal in the Irish News they now have confirmation of the fact. John McKay was at the first meeting of the association in Thurles one hundred and twenty-five years ago and his great-grand-nephew, Danny McKay, has been able to provide Donal McAnallen and Kieran McConville with a letter that gives the family history. From this it has emerged that John McKay was born in 1852 in the townland of Cargagh near Downpatrick and that one of his sons, who changed his name to Paul Murray, went to London and worked with film director Alfred Hitchcock.
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