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John Nash
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On behalf of the Irish Red Setter Club, it is with great sadness and loneliness
that I write an appreciation of, and a tribute to, my old friend and colleague,
the Late John Nash, Honorary Secretary to the Club for many years until his
tragic death last January. I was Honorary Treasurer and, during all those
years, we bred a friendship which we carry to the grave
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Eleanor Davidson
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Friendship is one of life's great gifts and if you are honest with yourself we
really have very few true friends in the course of our lives. With Eleanor's
death I lost a friend. When I started in field trials Eleanor and her husband
Albert made an interesting and charismatic pair. I could hardy believe my eyes
the first time I saw Eleanor at a trial, she was so agile and nimble
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Kay Bride
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Friends and family will be around us forever - that is what we all want to
believe. I thought my friend Kay Bride was indestructible. She had been through
many trials and upsets in her life, illnesses which would have finished off
many others, but Kay fought them all with great determination, and always
believed she would beat them, even the final one which eventually claimed her
life.
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Laura Dunne
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The lives of the Laura and the Creamers intertwined with the inaugural meeting
of the Irish Gundog Field & show Society in the late sixties, at the
gathering in Buswells Hotel of invited representatives from Gundog Breeds.
Laura was elected Chairperson and Tom Creamer Hon. Secretary. I had of course
seen Laura and Peter many times at shows with a team of beautifully turned out
Mullencluain Setters.
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