Five brothers honoured at the launch of Young Munster RFCs 'Forever Wall'

LAST WEEKEND saw the launch of Young Munster RFC's 'Forever Wall', a wall commemorating past players and members of the club.

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Among those being celebrated and remembered are the Horrigan brothers, five brothers who played for Young Munster.

William Horrigan, alongside his four brothers Matthew, Christy, John Joe and Hughie all represented Young Munster with Christy and William going on to represent Munster.

William's daughter Helga Sweetman, is overjoyed at seeing the Horrigan name immortalised at the club grounds where both her father and uncles played. 

"My dad was one of eight-teen children, five boys and each of them all played for Young Munster and two of them went on to play for Munster, my dad and the eldest brother Christy.

So word went out and we decided to put a bit of bob together and now the five brothers' names are on the Forever Wall and it's an amazing thing to see," she said.

Helga recalls how her father was the only one of the five brothers to leave Limerick, and raise a family in the capital.

"My dad was the only one of the brothers that left Limerick, he became an area manager and an electrician with the ESB and he was moved to Skerries as a young man where he raised his family in north Dublin," she said. 

"So to see his name, with his brothers, it's really great. It's lovely, it's just absolutely fantastic to see because he even brought us to Young Munster games.

He'd always tell us stories about getting changed for matches in ditches or behind a wall, it was a different time back then and the whole thing, seeing their names on the wall, it's just mighty," Helga added.

"To bring the lads back together again in this way is just fantastic and of course to be able to contribute to the new facilities is a godsend and hopefully we will be able to it again further down the line," she concluded.