Out and about cycling and I came across Mickey Begley of Begley’s Bar Killoe County Longford, sorting out empty’s from the bar. The man does not know what retirement is, he told me he built a house a bungalow on the site of the bar now back in 1965, and a little bird whispered to me (Councillor Gerard Hagan) that the man built it with blocks he made himself, a well thought of man Mickey is in Killoe he said. Mickey went on to say that his sister Theresa bought it and turned it into a bar before selling back to him twenty years later, he had worked in the Tara Mines previously. the man the myth the legend Micky Begley also starred in a Killoe County championship winning side back in 1959/60. Begley’s Bar Killoe is now ran by Mickey’s daughter Niamh Begley Lee, carrying on the great welcoming tradition of great pints and atmosphere.