Billy's medals on display in Woodbine

Pic: Noel Clare.

As part of the run up to St Patrick's Day and the overall Kilcullen 700 celebratory year, Billy Redmond has put on display in Woodbine Books his large collection of medals and badges, writes Brian Byrne.

They include his own service medals from a life-long career in the defence forces that took him from the Curragh to the Congo to Lebanon and many places in between.

There are also army medals he had gathered from the armed forces of other nationalities, from men and women he had met while serving overseas. Badges from the many lands he'd walked in during years of raising money for the Irish Wheelchair Association, also feature, as do collections of local services medals, such as An Garda, Fire Brigade, Ambulance, and groups such as the Scouts.

Billy is pictured with Tracey O'Dwyer, FG candidate for the Newbridge-Kilcullen LEA elections in May, with whose mother Geraldine Clifford's Irish dancing school he used to dance. Tracey showed him an old dance medal won by her grandfather.

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