Tommy Pop Lawless is dead

I  am 68 years coming .From a very young age I came on holidays to the Mc Cormack's on the Curragh Boreen .They were happy days and there were Healys,Conways ,Newmans and Lawleses living nearby to play with and have the craic with.
I  thought then and still think that it was unique to have a crossroads named after your family name.I  well remember Tom Lawless who had a shop on the actual crossroads ans I  think Lizzie who lived the Bohermeen side of it.
And then there was another family of Lawlesses who lived the Dunderry side of Tom Lawlesses shop.There was Tommy ,Matty and Catty --Catherine--and I can barely remember their parents,but the three kids I well remember.
Mattie died young a few years ago,much too soon and now Pop has shook off this mortal coil,at too young an age also.
I didn't know Pop as well as the others ,because after his n marriage he went to live in Donore but did know him and he knew me.
My memory of him is that he was a jovial and quiet and considerate guy ,always being particular in his dress sense and taking great pride in the way he conducted himself and cared for his car ,for example ,which was always kept in the best of form and had the most up to date gadgetry.
He was a big guy and handsome to boot  and would avoid confrontation if at all possible.The King of jobs at the time he finished school was to get a position in Navan Carpets and he had no bother getting one.I  was so impressed with this that one year after I  went home to Blanchardstown after my summer holidays that I  tried to talk my parents into letting me apply for a job there too.They decided otherwise.
Any how Pop stayed there for decades until the Carpet Factory closed down and advanced well upwards in responsibility.
The Lawlesses were never afraid of work and I  understand that his work ethic was such that work always found him ,recessions or no recessions.
I  understand that he kept extremely busy right up to the time of his extremely short illness,which took him and all belonged to him by total surprise.
Right up to his death he was a fierce supporter of Dunderry Football and always supported them in all games of importance as he did the County Team in good times and bad.
He died in the Lourdes Hospital after the shortest of illnesses and is survived by his Wife Pauline,children Sharon,Ronan,Emma and Brian and grandchildren and a great grandchild and devoted in laws and a large coterie of friends.
Cathy is the sole surviving sibling.
On my own behalf and that of my family and on behalf on the deceased members of the Mc Cormack family who thought so much of Pop and indeed all the Lawlesses I offer my sincerest condolences.
The Funeral Mss is on Monday 15th.October at 11.00 A.M in Donore.
Ar Dheis De go raibh a HAnam Dilis.