‘Big Maggie’ will never be forgotten

BIG Maggie Polpin is dead, but by Christ she won’t be forgotten.

In our house, a public house in William Street, Listowel, Co Kerry, acclaimed actor Anna Manahan was always Big Maggie.

The Keane clan is in mourning at the death of the feisty 84-year-old Waterford woman, who put the fear of God into directors and producers across the globe, and yet she always treated us with a tenderness that belied her fearsome but undeserved reputation.