Two late great Glenflesk men, whose respective deaths greatly saddened the parish and beyond, will be remembered with great fondness at a special rambling house session later this month.
The event will be dedicated to Dan Favier and Johnny O’Brien, both of whom were known far and wide, and a nostalgic night of music, song, dance, stories and chat is on the agenda.
It will be held in St Agatha’s Hall in Glenflesk on Saturday, November 18 from 8.00pm to 11.00pm and everybody is welcome.
Johnny ‘The Rock’ O’Brien was a colourful personality in his native Glenflesk where he had a small farm holding and tended to his flock of sheep and his beloved horses on a daily basis.
A great community man and a bachelor who lived alone, he died in a fire that gutted his two-storey home – at the side of the main Killarney to Glenflesk road – at Christmas 2022.
The death of Dan Favier, which occurred unexpectedly at home in November of last year, robbed the parish and the county of a great GAA stalwart who dedicated so much time and energy to the game, to his parish and to so many local organisations.
A long-time administrator with Glenflesk and the East Kerry Board, he was honoured with the East Kerry Personality of the Year Award in 2014.
A popular postman for over 40 years, it was known that if Dan Favier was asked to do a job it would be done well.
Dan was a volunteer with the Glenflesk Parish Council for many years and he was keenly interested in the cultural aspects of the GAA and was very active in Scór and Comhaltas Ceolteoiri Éireann.
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