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Fifty four Macra members received Leadership Distinction Awards at a special awards ceremony, which was held as part of the Bank of Ireland-sponsored county officer training in the Newpark Hotel, Kilkenny, on the weekend of September 3 and 4.

Joe Togher was born in Headford on September 8, 1898. His father was a shopkeeper and his mother was from Carlow, and they had three more sons and a daughter. His father died when he was very young, so in 1910 his mother moved the family into Francis Street in Galway where she opened a small hotel (see photograph) to support them. She was very busy with the business so it was Joe’s sister Nell who looked after him. He went to ‘The Mon’ where a nationalistic Brother Leo was a major influence. Joe was a good oarsman, a champion sculler.