Eagle-eyed Miko looks to find ‘Jer’

If your name is Jer and you were playing golf in Mahon on August 20 last year and lost a precious keepsake, Miko O’Connell may be about to make your day.

Miko, a member of Mitchelstown GC, was competing in the South Munster Seniors Open on that day and noticed a shiny object as he walked up the hill on the first hole at the Cork city course.

It turned out to be a metal disc, which Miko reckons to be the back of a watch. On the circumference is the inscription, ‘To Jer, Happy 70th, Love and Best Wishes, Donie and Mary’, while in the centre it reads ‘10-8-1940, Aged to Perfection, 10-8-2010’.