KILLARNEY has been stunned by the sudden death of Danny McGough who passed away, at the age of 46, at the weekend.
Remembered as arguably the greatest snooker player Kerry has ever produced, at the tender age of 12 he played former world champion Dennis Taylor in an exhibition game at the Gleneagle Snooker Club in the 1980s and he acquitted himself tremendously.
Quiet and unassuming, father-of-three Danny was one of the top amateur snooker players in the country and knocking in the maximum break of 147 was something he could achieve with relative ease given his enormous skills on the green baize.
Originally from Loreto Road, Danny continued his love of the game throughout his life and he was still playing exhibition snooker at the local Cue Club where news of his untimely passing has caused great shock and sadness.
“Heartbroken doesn’t even go near how we are feeling. Danny will not be forgotten,” said club owner Connie O’Sullivan.
The son of Pat and the late Mary, Danny is survived by his children, Jason, Matthew and Jessica, their mother Anne Marie, his brothers Pat, John, Philip, Paul, Kevin, Alan and Brendan, sisters Mary and Rosaleen, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews, other relatives and his work colleagues in SPX Flow Technology, Tiernaboul.
Reposing in O’Shea’s Funeral Home, Killarney this Wednesday from 4.30pm to 6.30pm, the Requiem Mass will be in St Mary’s Cathedral at 10.30am on Thursday with burial afterwards in Aghadoe Cemetery.
His colleagues in the Cue Club will form a guard of honour as the funeral cortege winds its way through the streets.
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