Young chairman sang for senator
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AS A young teenager, the Cathaoirleach of New Ross Town Council proudly sang a famous Wexford ballad at the hospital bed of Senator Ted Kennedy.
Aged just 14 years, the Cathaoirleach was one of just 22 boys who were picked from New Ross schools to travel to America in 1964 to pay tribute to the late President John F. Kennedy to mark the first anniversary of his untimely death.
The singers, under the musical direction of Fr. Jackie Power OSA, sang with other children from the United States during the first anniversary commemorations and also featured on the Ed Sullivan Show.
While in America, the group visited Senator Ted Kennedy while in a hospital in Boston after breaking his leg.
The group proudly stood by his beside and delivered their best rendition of the 'Boys of Wexford'.
'I shook his hand and he got up in the bed and he talked to us,' said Cathaoirleach Victor Furness, who was a pupil in Good Counsel College at the time.
