Bill Daly Originally from Tallow in West Waterford, Bill spent 30 years in Cork as a Senior Manager in the Electronics Manufacturing industry with such companies as Apple, EMC and Logitech. He has now been working on his own as a Consultant/Contractor for the past 20 years in Lean Manufacturing and Materials principles. Bill has been resident in Oughterard since 2009, and for the past few years, working as a Local Archaeologist, has been undertaking a project with the Oughterard Heritage Group to research the prehistoric roots of the village.
Bill Daly
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Originally from Tallow in West Waterford, Bill spent 30 years in Cork as a Senior Manager in the Electronics Manufacturing industry with such companies as Apple, EMC and Logitech.
27th October 1956
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He has now been working on his own as a Consultant/Contractor for the past 20 years in Lean Manufacturing and Materials principles. Bill has been resident in Oughterard since 2009, and for the past few years, working as a Local Archaeologist, has been undertaking a project with the Oughterard Heritage Group to research the prehistoric roots of the village. his is a nostalgic tribute to Willie Neville and John Parker – our great local Reporters for The Dungarvan Leader, a regional newspaper in County Waterford since 1938. Both Willie and John have gone to their eternal reward, and I would like to remember them in this article for their great contributions in keeping the people of the parishes updated through news items that were sometimes serious and at other times humorous. At all times they were very professional writers and we should be proud to have known them, and also because they lived amongst us during good and bad times in our recent history.
I didn’t know Willie very well as he was beginning to become elderly and his eyesight was failing when I was a young boy. I remember him as a kind looking man whom we used to meet on our walk to Kilwatermoy Mass each Sunday. He was also the Hon. Secretary for the Shamrocks Hurling Club when it was formed in 1953. I came to know John quite well and he lived just a little bit up the road from us, and he got me interested in writing at an early age. Both Willie and John were extremely intelligent and brilliant local Correspondents and if grants for Secondary and Third Level education had been available in their time, I have no doubt but they would have had very successful careers and different lives. The following extracts are just a small selection of their reports taken from the archives of The Dungarvan Leader from 1943 to 1968, and they are really just the tip of the iceberg. Willie would mostly have reported in the 1940’s and 1950’s and John in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
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