I WAS very sorry to get a telephone call from Tommy Gilmour Jnr, informing me of the death of former manager, promoter, second, agent, matchmaker, cutman ‘par excellence’ and our mutual friend, Paddy Byrne (real name Nicholas) at the age of 96.
Paddy, a Dublin-born Irish Catholic, once told me that it was only when he became an adult when he realised that Protestants and other
