The late Tom Boggan Tom Boggan, who was born in Newbay, Wexford on 29th January 1911, died at the age of 95. One of eight children, his early education was at Barntown National School having to cross the mountain by foot to get there. He played handball, hurling and football from an early age. In handball he won numerous County Championship medal as well as a Junior All Ireland medal. While playing hurling with Glynn/Barntown, Tom won a County Intermediate medal. He also played on the Wexford Senior Hurling team in the late '30s. Throughout the thirties and forties he and his brother Willie achieved many successes in running competitions throughout County Wexford. He also occasionally pulled with the Clonard Tug of War team. A lover of Irish music all his life, he played the accordion and in his youth mummed with the Clonard Mummers. He worked eight years at Newbay House, where his father and grandfather were gardeners. Later he worked at Pierces Foundry Wexford before going to England to work in construction. On Easter Monday1947 he married Mary Byrne, from Wexford, in Ely, Cambridgeshire. They celebrated their 59th Wedding Anniversary in 2006. On returning to Ireland and living at Ballykelly, Drinagh, he established a successful milk delivery business, in which he continued to participate until over 80 years of age. Tom was a man of easy going sense of humour, which he never lost. He loved a good conversation, recalling old times in an interesting way. He loved driving an continued to do so until he was 92. He and his wife Mary were a daily sight on the highways and byways of County Wexford where he drove as he lived, never in a hurry. Tom was first and foremost a family man who loved his wife Mary, daughter Eleanor, son Thomas and especially his four grandchildren. He will be dearly missed by them and all who knew him. Courtesy of the Wexford People 10 May 2006 Tweet

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