KILCULLEN 03 February 2003: Kilcullen has lost one of its greatest community stalwarts with the death of Timmy Lynch, after an illness.
If anybody could be called 'the voice of Kilcullen', it was Timmy, who was - as long as this writer can remember - the man who always did any job of MC that was required by any organisation in the community, be it GAA, soccer, religious, or any other group needing somebody to conduct their public proceedings.
But he was much more than just a voice. In the years while Kilcullen was suffering its first growing pains, he was at the centre of every new community endeavour, and unstinting with his time, his ideas, and his energy in the effort to make things work.
He was one of the founder members of 'Club 70', named after its year of foundation, which was the prime mover of community activism and fundraiser for all community needs of the time.
He was also a founder member of the Kilcullen Credit Union, chairman of the finance committee for the Community Centre, and was totally committed to Kilcullen Community Council through that organisation's most successful and most difficult days.
Timmy also involved himself with amateur boxing at town and county level.
He will be most sadly missed by all who knew him, but most of all by his wife Margaret, and sisters Noreen and Chris, who are in everybody's thoughts at this time.
(A profile of Timmy, written in 1997 by Nuala Collins, can be read here.)
