ALL-IRELAND COLLEGES senior football champions 1982, St Jarlath's College, Tuam. Standing: Padraig Brogan (Knockmore, Mayo), Alan Rowe (Corofin), Roger Kiely (Tuam Stars), Michael Henry Acton (Claddaghduff, Cleggan), Michael Conacur (Castlerea St Kevin's, Roscommon), Eoin Burke (Clonbur), Cormac M

All Ireland winning jersey ‘goes home’ to champion’s family

Published: Wed 20 Jun 2018, 9:46 AM

Last updated: Wed 20 Jun 2018, 10:54 AM

A QUARTER of a century after it was worn, an All-Ireland winning football jersey has been returned posthumously to the man who selflessly surrendered it within minutes of securing a senior colleges title for St Jarlath’s College, Tuam.

Eoin Burke, a native of Clonbur, passed away last November. A former boarder in St Jarlath’s, his death sent shockwaves throughout the north Galway region as the married father of four was only 53 when a car accident near Cornamona brought about his untimely death.

Read the feature in this week's edition of The Tuam Herald