Bid to honour hurling's Liam MacCarthy, the ‘forgotten man of 1916’
Dubliner Sean Meaney has been lobbying the GAA for more than 10 years to provide funding for a statue in Cork to honour his famous ancestor’s legacy to Gaelic games.
Earlier this week, after laying a commemorative plaque on MacCarthy’s London grave, Mr Meaney spoke of his distant relative’s “overlooked” contribution to the fight for independence.
