“My Dad, John Foy, from 111 McHale Road, Castlebar. His own father was Jim Foy was a Dublin man who moved to Castlebar to work on the railway. Dad joined CIE as a porter and finished up as traindriver in Galway where he had settled and married my mother, Bridie Spelman and had 6 children. He died March 25, 2015 and Mam died September 19 2017.”

(1946)

Submitted by Brenda Foy