The death has occurred of Brother Tony Dolan, Aughnasheelin / Mountbellew, County Galway
Brother Tony Dolan, formerly of Aughnasheelin / Mountbellew, County Galway RIP
Leitrim GAA wishes to convey its sincere condolences to the family of the late Brother Tony Dolan, formerly of Aughnasheelin, who passed away recently in Mountbellew, County Galway.
Brother Tony, a former Leitrim Footballer of the mid-1970s, left his indelible mark on the education of generations of young farmers through almost two decades at Mountbellew – most of those years as college principal. After Mountbellew, the next phase of his life took him to rural Kenya when he took over as Principal at Baraka Farmers’ Training Centre in Molo, Western Kenya in 1989. Life later took him away from there to move to a remote region of Northern Uganda where he established an agricultural and rural development training centre to assist farm households who were surviving on subsistence agriculture and also refugees from South Sudan who were in camps in the region. In all he worked for 34 years as a farming missionary in East Africa.
Brother Tony’s brothers, the late Fr. Joe, the late Fr. Leo and Paddy also represented Leitrim at various stages over the early 1970s. His late Uncle, Canon Joe Dolan, was a member of the Leitrim 1927 Connacht Championship-winning team.
Brother. Tony will be greatly missed by his brothers Paddy, Jackie and Jimmy, his sisters Ann O’Hora and Kay Flaherty, his cousins Norman, Peter and John Crampton, his brother-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, relatives, neighbours and friends and his Franciscan Brothers in Ireland, East Africa and the USA.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh sé.
