90th celebrations for ‘amazing’ Breeda
Breeda Foley, a Cork woman who adopted Tralee many years ago when she married her husband, the late Maurice Foley, celebrated a special birthday on Saturday.
Maurice worked with The Kerryman newspaper all his life.
Breeda marked her 90th birthday on Sunday, January 11th and on Saturday her family and extended family got together at Bella Bia restaurant to celebrate with her.
Breeda grew up in Cork where her father was a Garda Sergeant and she was one of a family of six. She worked in the Bank of Ireland, but like all women in those days when they married they were no longer able to work and dedicated their life to the home. Breeda and Maurice, and four children: Padraig, who lives in Tralee; Noel, who lives in Dublin and is married to Carmel; daughter Karen is married to Des O’Sullivan and is living in Killarney, and daughter Fiona, who lives in Cork with her husband Mick King. Breda also has nine grand children who were all there to celebrate with her on Saturday.
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Big surprise for birthday girl Kathleen
Kathleen O’Shea is a woman who prefers to stay in the background and never hogs the limelight but on Saturday it was ‘all about her’ as her children, grandchildren and extended family gathered at the Munster Bar to celebrate her zero birthday.
Kathleen, formerly O’Brien, was married to Sean O’Shea and they lived in Marian Park - both grew up as neighbours in Mitchel’s Avenue - they had 14 children but Sean sadly passed away at a young age in 1994 leaving Kathleen with a large family. Her eldest is Bernadette and youngest is Gary - her daughter Anita and Son Michel both live in the UK, but the rest of the family live locally - both Anita and Michael came home for the party, which was a complete and very pleasant surprise for Kathleen.
Kathleen hadn’t a clue that plans were going on behind her back for ages - everyone was contacted to be in the Munster Bar on Saturday night and both Anita and Michael had come home earlier than Kathleen expected.
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