The passing of Colm McCoy

The death has occurred of Colm McCoy of Littletown, Kilmeague. Colm will be remembered in Kilcullen from the 1950s, where he began a very successful amateur boxing career with Kilcullen Boxing Club, having moved to the club from Kildare.

He won his first National title for the club in the welterweight division in 1953/54 and went on to box at light/middle, middle, and light/heavy divisions. He won National and Ulster Seniors championships, as well as many international bouts. Along with Harry Perry and Adam McClean, he won a bronze medal for Ireland at the European Boxing Championships in Lucerne in 1959. He represented Ireland in the light/heavy grade at the 1960 Rome Olympics.

Colm maintained contact with Kilcullen when he settled in Kilmeague. He will be missed by many friends here, as well as by his wife Noelle and their family, his brother Art and his sisters and all his wide circle of friends.

His burial is today (Saturday) after 11 o'c. Mass in Allen cemetery. Family flowers only please. Donations if desired to Palliative Care, Friends of Naas Hospital.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.