Louis Darcy and Mairead were among the guests at the 50 Years anniversary that remembered Offaly Junior Hurlers winning their Leinster Championship. The event took place in Dooley's Hotel in Birr and Louis tells us it was a great night with almost all the surviving members of the panel attending.
And on the Darcy trail last evening Johnny and his wife Joanne and children Antonia, Laurie and Ciara stopped off on their way home to Daingean after a day in Ballinasloe Fair. Johnny told us that he was a son of the late Jimmy Darcy who was a step brother to Louis. And who was sitting at the counter but Louis and Oliver Darcy and when Johnny found out who they were he went to collect his camera to get a photograph of the two brothers.Johnny's brother Brendan owns The Blackthorn Bar
in Daingean.There is a connection with the Green and Kenny families he tells us.