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Wed 11 Nov 2009The RIC man who was in Hayes Hotel
FOUNDING OF THE GAA:HE MAY not have been quite airbrushed out of the official history in the way Trotsky was in Stalin's Russia, but a founding member of the GAA, Thomas St George McCarthy, was for many years the forgotten man of the historic meeting at Hayes Hotel in Thurles in 1884.
But now McCarthy, a district inspector in the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC), is to be honoured by the GAA when, as part of its 125th anniversary celebrations to rededicate the graves of all the founders, a memorial will be erected at his grave in Deansgrange Cemetery in Dublin today.
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