Reader’s info fills in blanks about life of GAA founder

FELLOW MOURNEMAN: Loyalist hero and prominent Orangeman William Johnstone was from the townland of Ballykilbeg, near Downpatrick in Co Down, with which John McKay’s family had links

Missing pieces of the jigsaw of the life of John McKay, one of the founding members of the GAA, may finally be falling into place following an appeal featured in The Irish News.

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