Was housekeeper to two past Presidents

June 1996

A Wexford woman who has head housekeeper at Aras an Uachtaráin for two former Presidents, Seán T. O’Ceallaigh and Eamon de Valera, has died in a Bray nursing home at an advanced age.

She was Miss Agnes (Aggie) Doyle, whose family owned the former Doyle’s Foundry in Wexford, and lived at Auburn Terrace.

The deceased lady was sister of Canon Patrick Doyle, former Parish Priest of Ballygarrett, and of the late Fr. Liam Doyle, who had retired to live in Wexford before he passed away a few years ago.

She is survived by one sister, Eileen, who is a Loreto nun (Sr. Mercedes) in Altrincham, near Manchester, and her brother Andy Doyle, in Sydney, Australia.

She was aunt of Andy Doyle, The Faythe, Wexford, and Gerald Fitzgerald and Mairéad Maume in Cork.

Miss Doyle was known to be a private woman who never spoke much of her time working for the two past Presidents, but who remained proud of having been able to serve them.

Her funeral took place from St. Teresa’s Church, Mount Merrion, to Crosstown Cemetery, Wexford.

May she rest in peace.