Day brought back a lot of memories for Tommy Reilly
IT’S BEEN 86 years since Tommy Reilly was born on Ship Street - but it still holds a big part of his heart.
Walking around the old street on Sunday, he admits the flooding is something that he always remembers.
‘ There were great families here, the likes of Maggie and Thomas Hoey and Kathleen McGeough,’ he stated.
‘It brings back a lot of memories but it’s a pity that something can’t be done with the houses.
‘ There were so many families raised on this street.’
Tommy’s family moved to Congress Avenue after getting a house there.
But he boldly returned to the Marsh Road area - and close to home - and has lived there for 62 years.
Another man ‘returning home’ was Tommy Lowth.
He recalled the fishermen who used to hang out their nets to dry, long before nylon came to the fore.
They used to head out and catch salmon from the old cenent factory to the mouth of the Boyne.
His grandfather, John Lowth, was also born in the street, so the link goes back many years.
John was a sailing man, so the tradition of the river and the sea remains strong. The men even made their own boats on the street.