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I'm on the Kilkenny/Carlow border and my post is Carlow but I'm a Kilkenny man. The nickname 'Shark' came from a hurling game when I was 18 in Kilkenny. I was playing full forward - I wasn't much good but I was big and awkward and kept a full-back busy. A couple of balls came in and I was lucky enough to catch them and throw them to the corner forwards to score goals and Pa Dillon shouted on the sidelines: "Would someone cut the head off that shark and we can all go home now?!" I remember we won that final and came back to Paulstown, and they said the man of the match was the shark. ...

Cpt David O’Flaherty photographed in 1999 in the new Irish Air Corps Dauphin 24hr rescue helicopter when it was launched in Waterford. Just hours later he was killed with the crew, including Enniscorthy man Michael Baker, when it crashed at Tramore returning from a rescue mission. The image was one of the stand-out moments of PJ Browne’s career as a photographer. Photo: PJ Browne Throughout PJ was working full-time with the ESB, He came to the attention of the Echo newspaper editor after the Wexford hurling senior final in O'Kennedy Park New Ross in 1964 between the Shamrocks and the Fayt...