Brendan Rogers was one of ,if not ,the oldest surviving former footballers of Dunderry GAA Club.He played with my uncles Joe,Paddy and Tommy Mc Cormack and a host of other men long since gone to their eternal reward and I think that he won Intermediate Championship medals with them in the 1940.s but I could be wrong.
His father before him Mattie ,better known as the Buller was one of Ireland's,Leinster and Meath's greatest footballers and had and indeed has legendary status amongst true Gaels.
He drove my mother to Dublin to give birth to my late brother Robert 6 decades ago in one of the former Parish Priest's cars he always had in stock all those years ago.
Brendan had not been well at all in recent times and was in and out of hospital and had the appearance of bad health.This did not diminish has keen interest in all matters agricultural and his wider family ,which he kept up until his untimely death.
His granddaughter Zara is a keen Camogie player with Dunderry Camogie Club and plays Senior and her father Brendan Junior is deeply involved with supporting his daughter's involvement.
The deceased was I understand reared partly with his granny King beside my mother's people alongside the riverbank of the river Clady and they were lifelong friends.
As long as his health allowed he got daily Mass in Dunderry Church ,a fact I know because I often saw him coming or going.
His funeral Mass is in Boyerstown Church this coming Saturday at 3.30 p.m.with burial in the adjoining cemetery afterwards.
To his wife Joan,children David,Joseph,Brendan,George,Joan,Agnes,Anne,Mary and Olive,his survining siblings Micheal ,Tommy,Agnes,Olive,lilly and Brigid .his numerous in laws,and grandchildren and other relatives and friends we offer our sincerest condolences.
Ar dheis De go raibh a h anam dilis.
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