The death has occurred of Seamus Fleming, a native of The Swan, suddenly, at the age of 72.
Mr Fleming was stationed as a Garda Síochána in Monaghan for many years where he lived with his family and ran a driving school after his retirement as a guard.
In Laois he’s remembered as a wonderfully talented footballer with club and county throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
He played for the Laois minors in 1965, 1966 and 1967, winning Leinster titles in ’66 and ’67 and a Leinster U-21 in 1969.
And a sign of his talent was that he went straight into the Laois senior team and played midfield in the 1968 Leinster final loss to Longford.
Though he lived and worked in London for a couple of years – and lined out with the London footballers – he returned to help St Joseph’s win senior honours in 1973, the same season that he also won an All Ireland junior title with Laois.
He won further senior championships with St Joseph’s in 1975, 1977 and 1978 and his last game for the club was the 1978 Leinster club final loss to the great Walsh Island team from Offaly.
Seamus is sadly missed by his wife Margaret, sons Anthony and Timothy, daughters Bonnie and Tessa, grandchild Ollie, brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, extended family, relatives and friends.
Reposing at his residence. House strictly private please, at the family’s request. Removal on Friday at 10am, arriving at St Macartan’s Cathedral, Monaghan for Funeral Mass at 11am, followed by private cremation at Lakelands Crematorium, Cavan.
Seamus’s funeral mass will be streamed live here.
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