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Margaret McGuinness, Queen of Naas
Back to Naas 100 Contents For almost forty years, the lynchpin that kept everything in motion at Naas Racecourse was its superb manager, Margaret McGuinness. Born and raised in Newbridge, from where her father operated as a truck driver, she learned shorthand, typing and bookkeeping at the town’s Technical School. At the age of sixteen, […]