Profile: Jimmy Bergin
Jimmy Bergin was a star of the 1970s and ‘80s and won numerous senior football titles with the “Town”.
Laura Bergin was club secretary in 1988 and ’89, the first and only lady holder of the position.
Laura had been assistant secretary to Bill Phelan in the previous two years.
Along with Kevin Farrell and Tom Bracken, she helped organise the club museum at Fr. Browne Avenue in 1987. She also organised numerous social activities raising badly-needed funds for the club.
Jimmy Bergin was a star of the 1970s and ‘80s and won numerous senior football titles with the “Town”.
I feel lucky to have witnessed “The Town” during the ‘60s, reborn in the ‘70s, through to an All-Ireland club title in football in 1983 right up to recent years and last year winning the ninth title in a row.
Larry was a dedicated follower of Portlaoise teams all his long life as, indeed, were all his family. His father trained the town hurlers to win their first senior championship in 1928.
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