The Daddy Thread

[Ambrose_McNulty]

May he RIP, mate.

[croppy_boy]

Sorry for your loss.

Wonderful tribute.

[Biff_Egan]

RIP @Locke .Sounds like a great man who was loved by all he met.

[gilgamboa]

Ah sorry for your troubles pal but thats a tremendous post and an unbelivable tribute to your Dad

What did you mean about a fella getting his own pattern on the wall?

[Locke]

@gilgamboa

What did you mean about a fella getting his own pattern on the wall?

The pattern of the shape of hurl they’d play with. So say Sinead or Richie would have a specific hurl they’d play with. He’d do the shape of it out on plywood and have it when they’d want a hurl he’d use it. The player would sign it too.

[fenwaypark]

Very sorry for your loss @Locke . May he rest in peace.

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Lovely tribute @Locke.

Sounds like a champion of a man.

Take care of yourself in the coming weeks abs months ahead

[Lazarus]

Sorry for your loss auld stock

[Breaking_my_balls]

Beautiful tribute to your Dad. He sounded like a good man, like yourself @Locke

May he rest easy now. Take it easy mate.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Sorry to hear of your loss @Locke

That’s a brilliant tribute to him. He sounds like he was a great husband, father and man. May he rest easy.

[Juhniallio]

Thats a beautiful post. Sounds like he lived a great life and did what was right too. Fair play to him.

[EmilioButragueno]

Sorry to hear that @locke. That’s a lovely tribute.

[Fagan_ODowd]

Lovely words @Locke. RIP.

[glenshane]

@Locke

The pattern of the shape of hurl they’d play with. So say Sinead or Richie would have a specific hurl they’d play with. He’d do the shape of it out on plywood and have it when they’d want a hurl he’d use it. The player would sign it too.

Are you half tempted to f9llow on…you’ve probably picked up more than you realise

[Spidey]

Great words mate and sorry for your loss - may he rest in peace

[briantinnion]

Lovely words. Sorry for your loss, @Locke.

[Gavrilo-Princip]

Smashing tribute @Locke, hopefully writing it was cathartic for you. He sounds like a great Kilkenny man, may he RIP.

[myboyblue]

@Locke

The Auld Lad was laid to rest yesterday. Tough few days but even tougher few weeks and months witnessing a colossus of a man slowing loose the good fight. He’d been ill for a few years, slowly getting less and less able to fend for himself until after been very ill in early April, went into a nursing home in July and then was in and out of hospital between then and last week.
He had a bad turn on the 23rd Dec and slipped away peacefully from us all on Saturday evening.
I loved my Dad, he did a great job with us all and cared practically solo for Mam when she was sick with MND. Any shortcomings a man of his generation had in parenthood were wiped clean when he spent two years caring for Mam.
Dad was a Hurley maker. The amount of people at the wake who came to us speaking about getting hurls off of Dad and who were upset at his passing was endless. I saw lassies and lads with many AI medals in their pockets be extremely upset as he had some bond with them all. When you played county you got your picture up on the wall of the shed, when you won an AI you got your own pattern, that was the rule.
There was a minute silence for him in his honour before the Walsh Cup game above on the Green on Sunday, a great gesture shown by the Lockes and the KK county board.
He was able to convert his passion for hurling into his craft and he always said he was living the dream.
I went out to the Shed there today for the first time in a while, Christ you couldn’t be but moved when you’d pick up his hammer, his spoke plain, his chisel, looking at his bandsaw, the sanding machine down the back.
To its credit, rip.ie is a great service and you’d get great comfort from all the messages on it.
Thanks to the @Callanpose and thanks for giving your time so generously over the last couple of days. Thanks to those on here too who knew the craic and gave support.
I don’t know what I’ll do for an AI ticket, he was always the one to get them for us, Christ he loved the build up to AIs and sourcing tickets for us all. I saw one KK player at 10pm the night before an AI call to the house with two tickets for Dad, he was laughing about the story yesterday, crazy stuff!!
And the fact that I will have to pay for a hurl, I nearly fell off the high stool last night and knocked over the table of Large Ales when I heard the price of them!!
Rest well Dad, you earned it. Mam will have the ear worn off you now you can talk again to each other.

That’s beautiful. I heard of his passing but never connected the dots. Should guessed when I saw the pints of Smithwicks though. You gave him a great tribute there, he sounded like a great man. He raised you well.

[Foggydew]

Lovely words sorry for your loss

[Jahan]

Sorry for your loss. Excellent tribute.