DONEGAL’S 1992 ALL-IRELAND winning captain Anthony Molloy will be awarded the Freedom of Donegal.
The Ardara native will be awarded on Tuesday at 6pm at the County House in Lifford for his contributions to Gaelic Games and his work as an ambassador for Donegal.
[adrotate group=”66″]Molloy captained Donegal to the 1992 Ulster and All-Ireland titles and played in the Donegal sides that won the Anglo-Celt Cup as provincial champions in 1983 and 1990. He also won Ulster and All-Ireland Under-21 championships in 1982.
Congratulations to our own Anthony Molloy who will be awarded the Freedom of Donegal next Tuesday in Lifford. #BigHonourForTheBigGuy
— Ardara GAA (@ArdaraGAA) June 1, 2016
He is the first person the reward from a GAA background with current Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Shay Given and Irish Olympic team manager Patsy McGonagle having previous been given the award – it’s highest honour the council can give to an individual.
[adrotate group=”45″]Molloy, last December, presented a TG4 documentary called ‘Deoch an Dorais‘.
“Set slightly later in the early 1930s, Deoch an Dorais (Name Your Poison) examines the legend of Mike Malloy (nicknamed “Rasputin of the Bronx” or “Durable Mike Malloy”), an Irish emigrant to New York at the time of prohibition,” said Film Ireland.
“Malloy was the unwitting subject of insurance fraud when a policy was taken out on his life by an Italian-American New York gangster and speakeasy owner, Tony Marino.
[adrotate group=”46”]“However, despite repeated attempts to collect the policy by killing Malloy in a manner that would suggest a natural death – from poisoning him with drink and food, to hitting him with a car and dumping his soaking body overnight in freezing weather – Marino and his accomplices were unable to collect.
“The documentary is presented by All-Ireland winning Donegal captain Anthony Molloy, who also reflects on his own struggle with alcoholism and the larger story of Irish emigration to the United States of which Malloy was but one of many examples.”
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