{"id":4096,"date":"2020-02-22T10:13:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T10:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=4096"},"modified":"2024-06-24T10:07:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T09:07:19","slug":"former-kildare-footballer-dies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/former-kildare-footballer-dies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FORMER KILDARE FOOTBALLER DIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Leinster Leader<\/em><\/strong><strong> 27 August 1985<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Former Kildare Footballer dies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Michael Cosgrove, who collapsed and died in a bus in Dublin, took a prominent part in the War of Independence and was a member of the Four Courts Garrison during Easter Week.<\/p>\n<p>He played Gaelic Football with Kildare in the 1920\u2019s. He was a steward at Croke Park (Hogan Stand) for the past 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Delia Cosgrove; Messrs. Hugh, Pater and Jim Cosgrove (brothers); Misses Kathleen and Nellie Cosgrove (sisters).<\/p>\n<p>The funeral with military honours took place to Dean\u2019s Grange Cemetery. Chief mourners were \u2013 Mrs. Cosgrove (widow); Hugh, James and Peter Cosgrove (brothers); Misses Ellen and Kathleen Cosgrove (sisters); Peadar and Michael Cosgrove (nephews).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leinster Leader 27 August 1985 Former Kildare Footballer dies Mr. Michael Cosgrove, who collapsed and died in a bus in Dublin, took a prominent part in the War of Independence and was a member of the Four Courts Garrison during Easter Week. He played Gaelic Football with Kildare in the 1920\u2019s. He was a steward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-sport"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}