OBITUARY: Danny Bowe, first aid man with Mount Sion GAA club

’He checked himself out of hospital to attend those funerals. That’s the kind of person he was’ - Michael Moynihan looks at the life of Danny Bowe, first aid man with Mount Sion GAA club in Waterford

Every sports club in Ireland needs variety in its membership. The superstars and immortals build the brand, but selfless administrators and journeyman athletes keep the wheels turning. No matter what the sport, clubs aren’t homogenous in their make-up. They can’t afford to be.

Mount Sion is a perfect example. The Waterford city GAA club is one of the best-known in the association, with plenty of entrants in hurling’s hall of fame — recent icons such as Ken McGrath and Tony Browne, Waterford’s last All-Ireland-winning captain Frankie Walsh, and current star Austin Gleeson. Yet when Mount Sion said goodbye to one of its favourite sons recently, the loss was no easier to take because the man concerned wasn’t a household name all over Ireland.