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Funeral Saturday for Gaffney family matriarch
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Louise Gaffney raised five sons, and three of them went on to play football at the University of Florida. (Photo provided)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A prominent Jacksonville family whose name is well-known, especially to University of Florida football fans, has lost a mom, a grandmother, a great grandmother and a great-great-grandmother.
Louise Gaffney died May 10. She was 84.
Funeral services were planned for Saturday morning at Emanuel Missionary Baptist Church for Louise Gaffney.
Of her five sons, Derrick and Don were Gators football stars. Warren also played at UF.
Don was UF’s first African-American quarterback. Derrick went on to play in the NFL. His son, Jabar, was also a Gators star and he, too, played in the NFL.
New streamed concert series at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon starts with band, Dirty Dreamer
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The Sky From Here concert series begins with an exclusive performance by the Dublin based but Boyle inspired 4-piece Dirty Dreamer.
Having played together for a number of years with the Choice Prize nominated Come On Live Long, Dirty Dreamer formed in 2018 over months of writing and experimenting with a new sound. The band visited Carrick-on-Shannon to record in early 2021 and the results of that session will be available to stream from www.thedock.ie from April 8-11.
Speaking ahead of the live recording band lead vocalist Louise Gaffney said: “I suppose the last 12 months really slowed things down for us in terms of writing new material or rehearsing as we like to do it together in a room and we were fairly into a great routine of at least once weekly sessions