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Fr Der Leahy, who died in March of 2026. Picture: George Hatchell<\/p>\nBlackrock National Hurling Club are mourning the losses of club stalwarts Fr Der Leahy and John Redmond, both of whom died in the past week.<\/p>\n
Redmond, a native of Ballymurn, Co. Wexford, was part of the team which beat Glen Rovers in the 1956 county SHC final, ending a drought of 25 years for the club.<\/p>\n
The report of that game which appeared in The Cork Examiner outlined the importance of his performance: \u201cThe exchanges at midfield broke about even, for Wexford\u2019s S\u00e9amus Hearne never showed his All-Ireland form, though he did enough with fellow county man, John Redmond to offset the work of the Glen\u2019s Jim Rodgers and Francie O\u2019Regan.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blackrock club president Roger Ryan paid tribute to John\u2019s impact after his move from Slaneyside.<\/p>\n
\u201cJohn was one of our star players throughout the 1950s and gave 20 years sterling service to the club between 1956 and 1976,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe lined out at centrefield in the county winning team of 1956, when they beat Glen Rovers by to 2-2, and he also played in the 1963 and 1969 finals. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe had a glittering career with the Rockies and represented the club at all levels. He won two city junior championships in 1970 and 1972 and was on the losing side for two intermediate finals. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe also played football with St Michael\u2019s and inter-firm with Ford\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n John, who was buried on Monday, was predeceased by his wife Eily (n\u00e9e Bevan) and is survived by his children Finbarr, Jim, Norma, John and Noel.\n <\/p>\n
Fr Der Leahy, who died in March of 2026. Picture: George Hatchell<\/p>\n
Also buried on Monday was Fr Michael Jeremiah ‘Der’ Leahy, who had a varied ministry that took in London and Rome as well as postings closer to home<\/p>\n
\u201cFr Der was a past president of the club and lifetime member and supporter,\u201d said Ryan.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe never failed to appear at our games and was always a great contributor to our AGMs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blackrock National Hurling Club are mourning the losses of club stalwarts Fr Der Leahy and John Redmond, both…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-350880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}