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Remembering the great Joe McCabe – a Laois Hall of Fame hurler

Hall of Fame recipient, the late Joe McCabe, Clonad with family and friends at the Laois GAA Awards in The Portlaoise Heritage Hotel in 2010

The news of the passing of one of Laois’s all-time greatest hurlers was met with sadness yesterday. Clonad’s Joe McCabe, who was in his 100th year, was one of the most remarkable Laois men to ever pick up the ash. Born in 1919, the Clonad President went on to play for the Laois minors for…

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Stradbally native Alan Hartnett is a graduate of Knockbeg College who has worked in the local and national media since 2008. Alan has a BA in Economics, Politics and Law and an MA in Journalism from DCU. His happiest moment was when Jody Dillon scored THAT goal in the Laois senior football final in 2016.