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Eleanor Davidson

Ray O'Dwyer.

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, she hopped over obstacles as quick as a flash and never seemed to walk, everything was done at speed. Albert in his day shot for Ireland, drove racing cars and Eleanor fished, shot, trained dogs, smoked cigars and drank whiskey. Not your typical Irish couple of the day. 

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John Nash - Irish Red Setter Club Tribute

Bob Stakelum

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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Kay Bride

Nicola Hughes

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

Kay Creamer

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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