A member of Cavan's 1959 Ulster MFC winning team, who had lost all contact with his former team-mates and was even thought to have died, turned up at a reunion recently. Sixty-eight-year-old Kevin McCormack had not been seen for years when he shocked and delighted his former colleagues by walking into the reunion party two weeks ago at the Slieve Russell Hotel in Ballyconnell. Some feared that the Maghera native had passed away, but he had been actually living in London where he makes his living from busking. Just as the function got underway, McCormack appeared wearing a blue 'I love Cavan' T-shirt and a pair of GAA shorts. And some friends didn't instantly recognise him because he had grown a long beard since they last saw him. Cavan chairman Phil Smith told the Irish Daily Star: "He entertained everybody. He was busking with the accordion, playing the flute, the guitar - you name it. He was the life and soul of the function." McCormack lined out at corner back on the Cavan minor team that won the Ulster title 50 years ago before going on to lose the All-Ireland final to Dublin. Tweet

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