The Gaels of Gort na Móna are in mourning following the death of club legend Jimmy Flanagan who has died at just 58. A founder member of the Gorts club Jimmy was a member of the team who won the club’s first hurling trophy, the 1984 Junior Championship. The following year he was on the team who won the All County Football League Division 3 and followed that up by winning the Intermediate Hurling Championship in 1985. In 1989 he was there when the Gorts won the All County Football League Division 2 and he captained the club to success in the South Antrim Martin Cup in 1990’
Described by his team mate Gerard ‘Blaster’ Holden as a player with fantastic skill and a real gentleman, who was highly respected among the Gael of Belfast. Jimmy will be sadly missed by the Gort na Móna family.
We at the Saffron Gael would like to pass on our condolences to his fellow Gaels at Gort na Móna, and in particular to his sisters Anne and Kathleen and brother Martin, a man who played with the Antrim hurlers in the early 1990s.
Jimmy will be laid to rest after 10 am Requiem Mass on Saturday at Holy Trinity Church, Turf Lodge….Covid 19 rules apply.