Spanish town honours Irish painter with street tribute

A DECEASED Irish painter who made Spain his second home is to be honoured by having a street named after him in his adopted town of Málaga.

Last Friday, the local council voted unanimously to pay tribute to George Campbell.

They agreed to name a street Jorge pronounced Horhe Campbell, which was how the local people knew him. Mr Campbell, from Arklow, Co Wicklow, died in 1979, aged 61. He spent five months of every year of his last 27 years in Málaga His wife, Madge Campbell, who will be 83 this month, yesterday said she was delighted when she heard the news.