from AAI website I first met Josephine in 1999 when I ran the Dunboyne 4 mile race and she gave me my teeshirt! She was choir mistress in the national school and gave my twin girls a love of music they still have. When I was treasurer on the Parents Association she regularly helped us at our jumble sales. She was the music director for the two Dunboyne musical society shows I was in. She regularly walked the track and I remember her doing our original fit4life two mile challenge.
I was intrigued to learn from Frank how heavily herself and her husband Brian were involved in the BHAA and she was head of volunteer recruitment for the marathon. Every Xmas morning she organised the teas and biscuits after our 2 mile race for the Mary Brady Xmas cake. When Bertie Ahern spoke of social capital being the glue that holds communities together he was surely writing about Josephine.
They had a holiday home in Ballycotton and they decided to move there in the summer of 07. Its only in the last few weeks their home on the Maynooth road had sale agreed placed on it so I am sure they were happy about that.
This time last year she was diagnosed with a brain tumor and sadly passed away on Saturday. Her three children are under 14 so it will be tough on her husband Brian who regularly helps Frank on the race series.
John Holian