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Photo from rip.ie
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The photo (published by kind permission of his family) shows very well the kind of person Mike was, outgoing, interested, welcoming, sharing . . . and we could go on. He belonged to the 'good old stock' of Saggart village, his forebears having worked in the paper mill. Born on 29 May 1930, he grew up in one of those thatched cottages down from the church in Main Street that you see in the old photographs. He went to the two-storey primary school on the Boherboy road now converted into apartments. He worked abroad (England, America) and, later on, back in Ireland, in Peamount Hospital, doing very good work wherever he went. He lived in Clondalkin with Anne and raised a fine family there. From time to time he and Anne came to Mass in Saggart. That is where the writer, a blow-in of 1995, first met him. He extended a warm welcome to new parishioners like my wife and myself from the Citywest area. May the angels welcome him into Paradise as warmly.
He died aged 91 in Tallaght Hospital (see rip.ie). His funeral took place in Clondalkin on Tuesday, 28th September and he was buried afterwards in Saggart, his grandsons bearing him on their shoulders to his final place of rest.
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Photo : Donal McMahon, by kind permission of the Flynn family
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