Joe's passing is deeply mourned from Cortoon to New Zealand

FROM New Zealand’s capital Auckland to Australia’s Canberra, in New York, London, Dubai or Boston, or anywhere around the world where Irish people gather to play Gaelic games, and back to where he first played with a ball in Cortoon, former GAA President and Galway All-Ireland winning and All-Star hurler Joe McDonagh is mourned this week.
As GAA President he visited many of the Irish football and hurling clubs abroad and he made such a lasting impression on the emigrants that many tributes came from overseas since his passing.
They included one from Auckland, from Kilkerrin man Oliver Lee, who was one of the Irish community leaders to welcome him there a few years ago.

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