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Tom Connolly (1917-2008) – Boat Driver & Engineman – Rathangan, Co. Kildare

‘I always wanted to work on the canal’, so, my eldest brother came home and took over the lock and I started on the boats in 1935 ... but carrying forty or fifty bags of malt weighing over 20 stone over your shoulder is no easy job’.