COLM SERVED MASS IN SIENA CONVENT AND PLAYED FOR THE WOLFE TONES
COLONEL Colm Doyle said it was a very nostalgic evening to be back in Drogheda at the old school where it all began.
He did his Leaving Cert in 1964 at the school when it was at Sunday’s Gate and where he stood now - in the school gym - was where he played hurling with his beloved late twin brother, Frank.
He came back to St Joseph’s on the Newfoundwell
Road for the official launch of the new
Past Pupils Union - the St Joseph’s CBS
Whitaker Alumni - last week, admitting it was great to catch up with old faces and friends.
‘We lived on the
Cord Road and I served mass in the
Siena Convent back then,’ he states.
‘ The new school wasn’t here then and these were playing fields.
‘Myself and Frank used to come here on a Saturday morning with our hurleys and climb the gates and play for hours. We’d only go home in the evenings when we got hungry. We loved it.’
They featured with the Wolfe Tones club and only last week he came across a picture with himself, Frank and some past players.
‘We had some great games and I remember travelling to games in Dundalk and there would be skin and hair flying!.’
Colm was also involved with the FCA in his younger days, before going on to spend 43 years in the Defence Forces.