Club Notes: 22nd March 2020

Only his dear family and maybe some of his closest friends knew the true value of the man we all came to know as H. He was a committed family man, devoted to his wife Vivienne and his girls Fiona and Aoife and of course a doting granddad. You’d want to be up early to get one over on H He was the master of the one liner always ready with a quick retort! Sharp of wit and sharp of intellect you engaged in verbal jousting with H at your peril!!! He would always get the last word in. Behind it all he was generous to a fault, a loyal and dear friend and a man of great conviction. As the late John Geary might say “there was a bit about him”. The Irish in the Bronx have another way of putting it. They would simply put it in their own idiom: “He’s good people”Brendan had a comprehensive education beginning at Tallow national school and then on to boarding school in the Friary. He had a good command of the native language and well able to hold a conversation. Bhi an Gaeilge thar a bheith líofa aige agus is minic a bhíodh comhrá again le chéile in ár dteanga duchais. Having completed his Leaving cert in St Augustine’s H left for Cork where he would set up his own business. He claims himself he was sent for. He served Ballincollig GAA and has many friends there to this day. He also always retained more than a hint of that melodious Cork accent which went down well with his friends in Tallow. More fodder for the merciless slagging we engaged in.H was an accomplished sportsman. He was an outstanding basket baller in his time at St Augustine’s. He also won an u15 Munster football medal with the famed Friary. He represented Tallow at every level (u14 to senior) in both hurling and football. Indeed the Hartigan family are steeped in GAA tradition. H’s father John Snr played for Waterford in the 30s, and his brothers Mikey and John (R.I.P.) wore the blue and gold of Tallow with distinction.