OBITUARY: Former chairman of Cork GAA, and PRO for Cork and Munster GAA Jim Forbes

Like every good communicator, Jim Forbes was always listening, writes Tony Leen

There are printed photographs, match reports and programmes sprinkled across Jim Forbes’ living room at his now quietened home in Carrigaline, Co. Cork.

His daughters Fidelma and Aoife, and son Killian can’t put names to a lot of the faces and teams they’ve come across as they begin that painful but oft times therapeutic retracing of his life in the GAA. Among the winning smiles and hoisted trophies, there are pictures from the Sam Maguire commemoration in Dunmanway, when scores of the country’s living All-Ireland winning captains travelled to West Cork, and many more of Cork teams, adult and underage, Carrigdhoun and Carrigaline ones too.