Byrne, Anna
March 20, 2013"Nanno" as she was known to family and friends was part of one of the greatest Gaelic families in that part of Wicklow.
Her husband Paddy, still hale and hearty at 94 years of age, played football for Ballymanus and Knockananna and along with his wife actively promoted camogie in Knockananna and hurling in Kiltegan.
In fact it could be said that where anything to do with Gaelic games was being promoted in the general area, the Byrnes of Moyne were there in the engine room.
Nanno had many great moments in her long sporting life, as first her husband, then sons, daughters and now grand children bringing home cups, trophies and medals of all sorts from the sporting fields of Wicklow arid far beyond. Even up to her final illness she was always there to lend support and encouragement. Nanno had her own sporting moments too.
In 1980 she was chairperson of the Kiltegan Juvenile hurling club when they won a special award in the AIB club of the year awards.
Surely her own greatest moment in sport came when she joined with the elite of the land on stage in the AIB Centre in Ballsbridge to receive that award from the then Minister of State Jim Tunney.
Anna's own family, the Harneys of Rosahane and Ballnaguffogue have long left the area but her brother John and her sister Maureen attended the funeral.
By a strange coincidence one of her grand nephews David Harney was Kildare's top scorer in the match against Wicklow on the week of her death.
Moyne and Askanagap was a "no go" area on Friday when dignitaries of Church, State and the GAA joined her family and hundreds of friends at the funeral to the local church for Requiem Mass and burial afterwards to the adjoining cemetery.
Our sympathy to her husband Paddy, sons, daughters, brother, sister and extended family
May she Rest in Peace.
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