The Rooster is all wise, a sharp operator and winner

The one they call The Rooster left Connemara for the English building sites in Birmingham when he was 18.

He had no English when he landed, but quickly learned it from his married sister, with whom he lodged for the first year there, whilst swinging the pick and wielding the shovel.

Later he worked in the States, and in France on a motorway project, and even on the faraway Falkland Islands.