Ireland

4May

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Beena George, Ireland

The first nurse in Ireland to tragically lose her life to coronavirus has been named as Beena George – a heroic frontline worker who contracted the Covid-19 bug while also suffering from cancer. The 58-year-old had worked as a nurse for ten years at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda and sadly died from the horrible virus on Sunday morning. It is believed Beena contracted the virus in March when she first had pneumonia while undergoing treatment for stage-4 cancer. She was immediately admitted to Drogheda hospital last month to battle the pneumonia which she fought for 17 days and was tested for coronavirus which came back negative. She recovered from the pneumonia and was discharged but after spending two days at home, she developed a fever and shortness of breath a...

30Apr

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Noel Walsh, football manager

Noel Walsh an Irish Gaelic footballer, administrator, selector, manager and member of the Defence Forces died at the age of 84 on April 29, 2020 after suffering from Covid-19. As a selector and manager, he worked with the Clare county team. As a provincial administrator he was pivotal in establishing an open draw in the Munster Senior Football Championship. As a national administrator he was pivotal in the overturning of the Gaelic Athletic Association's Rule 42, the introduction of the All-Ireland Qualifiers and the spread of floodlights to club and county grounds. At his death he was remembered locally and nationally as one of the sport's most progressive administrators. He was often referred to as "Mr Clare Football". A native of Miltown Malbay in West Clare, Walsh serve...

22Apr

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David Reno Bacuzzi, footballer

David Reno Bacuzzi an English footballer and manager who played for Arsenal, Manchester City and Reading – died from Covid-19 on 21 April 2020. He also represented England as a youth international. After a moderately successful career in the English League, Bacuzzi settled in the Republic of Ireland where he enjoyed a successful spell as player-manager with Cork Hibernians before going on to manage Home Farm. He later opened a travel agency in Dublin. Bacuzzi was born into an Anglo-Italian family that had settled in London. His paternal grandparents originally came from Milan. His father, Joe Bacuzzi, was also a notable footballer, playing as a defender for both Fulham and England during the Second World War. Born in Islington, London, Bacuzzi began his career with Eastbourne Un...

21Apr

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Tom Mulholland, Gaelic footballer

Tom Mulholland ‑ a Gaelic footballer who played senior football for Kilkerley Emmets, Louth and Leinster – died from Covid-19 on 20 April 2020. He was also honorary president of the Kilkerley Emmets club. Mulholland lived in the village of Kilkerley, near Dundalk, where he was a dairy farmer. He had six sisters and one brother. He was married in 1968 and had eight children. Some of his children played football and camogie at various levels. Mulholland pursued his involvement in athletics until he was in his seventies. After an outbreak of COVID-19 at Dealgan House Nursing Home (where he resided), Mulholland was admitted to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda where he died on 20 April 2020.

15Apr

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Danny Delaney, footballer

Danny Delaney a Gaelic footballer and administrator. He played for Laois and Stradbally during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s died at the Maryborough Centre in Portlaoise of COVID-19 on the morning of 14 April 2020. He was from Cork Road in Stradbally. With Stradbally, Delaney won both the 1959 and 1963 Laois Intermediate Football Championships. He also played hurling for the Ratheniska team. In 1973, Delaney was elected vice-chairman of the county board under Sean Ramsbottom. Delaney also served as chairman of the Stradbally club. He He had been there for around three weeks, having spent months in the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise. Delaney was one of nine deaths at the Maryborough Centre over the Easter weekend, reducing the number of residents there by one third. He ...

8Apr

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Tom Scully, football manager

Thomas Scully –a Gaelic football manager, priest and schoolteacher – died on 7 April 2020 due to Covid-19. He managed the Offaly county team, where he was pivotal in establishing them as a rising side in the sport. Scully was a native of Aharney in Tullamore. He had two brothers and six sisters: Ned, Michael, Nance (Hanlon), Mary (Garry), Rose (Cleary), Margaret (Henry), Lily (MacDonald) and Emily (Hanlon). All bar Emily predeceased him. During the 1960s, Scully trained the Belcamp College boarding school team in Dublin to three Leinster Schools' Football Championships. He led Offaly to the final of the 1968–69 National Football League (their first), the Leinster Senior Football Championship title (their third) and then to ...

4Apr

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Ireland, Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Tim Robinson, cartographer

Timothy Drever Robinson, an English writer and cartographer, passed away on 3 April 2020after suffering from coronavirus complications. His most famous works include books about Ireland's Aran Islands and Connemara, in the West of Ireland. He was also well known for producing exceptionally detailed maps of the Aran Islands, The Burren, and Connemara, what he called "the ABC of earth wonders". Born in England, he studied mathematics at the Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After a career as a visual artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London, he settled in the Aran Islands, off the coast of County Galway in the 1970s, and began a detailed study of the landscape of the West Region, Ireland. Robinson produced his first map of the Aran Islands in 1975 with a se...