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Vincent 'Jap' Donnan; Tom McGuigan; Paul 'Dudley' Tinnelly(RIP); Billy Howlett (RIP); Brendan Curtis(RIP); Hilary McGrath; Terry Carr.

Middle row, Brendan Higgins; Noel Laverty; Gerry Fitzpatrick (RIP); Paul 'Lucy' Farrell; Gerry Keenan; Pat McAlinden; Liam Stewart Senior; Aiden Woods; Thomas McGuigan; Pat Smith.

Front row, Jim 'Jumbo' McGivern; Jimmy Devlin (RIP); P.J. McAlinden (RIP); Len O'Hagan (RIP); James Fairgrieve (RIP); Arthur Ruddy (visiting league official); Jim Boylan (RIP).

The Reeds GFC team that won the local Gaelic Works League in 1967. Jimmy Devlin from Moygannon was the manager, and if one of his players let slip with a swear word in the heat of battle so to speak, Jimmy would have thought nothing of substituting him, even if he was the best player. He hated players using expletives, and I think there would have been a few bad words muttered underneath the breath, with some of those boys.

Another one I missed first time. Some great people there. I met Jimmy Devlin through my father who worked alongside Jimmy at the factory. I was attending Violet Hill and my father told me that Jimmy was starting an Irish class in the Labour Club in Newry Street and that I might wasnt to attend. Well, I did, and am still grateful for it was there that I really got to love the language. Father Byrne at Violet Hill was good but Jimmy emphasised the spoken language and encouraged us to go to Feis an Dun in Newcastle where we did well enough to get to Ranafast for the summers. Wonderful memories.
Jimmy was quite a man and a privilege to have known.