Galway village manages to repatriate emigrant after appeal

A Galway village has rallied to avoid a lonely, unmarked burial for one of their forgotten emigrants.

Galway village manages to repatriate emigrant after appeal

A Galway village has rallied to avoid a lonely, unmarked burial for one of their forgotten emigrants.

Sean Parker left the village for England in the 1950s and, after a life on the margins, he spent his last few years in a care home in Kent.

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