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Article: Bob FitzGerald Kerryman with a lifelong passion for rugby who enjoyed a full and active retirement, writes Liam Collins.
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- Sunday Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- January 27, 2008
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Bob FitzGerald
Kerryman with a lifelong passion for rugby who enjoyed a full and active retirement, writes Liam Collins
Bob FitzGerald, the former secretary of the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), was listening to Lyric FM one morning when he heard a beautiful piece of music, but didn't catch the title.
He wrote to the radio station and they read out his letter and played the piece by a Welsh Voice Choir again.
As he told members of Probus, an organisation for retired people which meets in Killiney Golf Club, it turned out that that the piece came from the lyrical Dylan Thomas poem Under Milk Wood.
He then told his ...