GAA honours founder Cusack

The Gaelic Athletic Association will today mark the 100th anniversary of the death of its founder Michael Cusack.

Speakers at a special event at the GAA Museum in Croke Park will include historian Dr Diarmaid Ferriter and Boston College lecturer Prof Mike Cronin.

An Post issued a new postage stamp in August to mark the centenary of Cusack’s death.

The Co Clare teacher, who was born in 1847, founded the GAA in Hayes’s Commercial Hotel, Thurles in 1884.

He resigned his official role within two years but remained active in the organisation for the rest of his life.

Cusack died on November 28, 1906 at the age of 59 in a Dublin hospital.