This was a very succesful day and evening with a great turnout for both the Golf and the Dinner. 

For those of you who were not at the dinner and therefore had no chance to read the menu, Mark's comments on Rodger are reproduced below.

In due course the club will confirm the final finances raised.

Roger Farrell by Mark Clarke.

Roger and I first met in 1984 at the Robin Hood Bar in Bermuda.   Roger had only arrived in Bermuda and the last thing he wanted was to meet another Irishman (and an inebriated one at that).

Despite our shaky start we became friends and during our 4 years in Bermuda went on holidays together, sometimes to give our money to the bookies at the Hollywood dog track in Florida.   One of our interesting experiences there was attending a Timeshare Promotion where I was foolish enough to sign an agreement to buy. We ended up being driven home in a very large limousine accompanied by equally large people, to collect the $2,000 deposit that I had signed up for.  Fortunately one of our house mates was a Vietnam veteran who managed to “gently persuade” the gentlemen that the deal was off. The fact that he still had his gun may have helped a little.  Roger was the sensible one and had not signed anything. He in fact got a free radio out of the occasion. All part of the experience of being in your 20’s in a different country.

I returned to Ireland and started at KGC in 1989.  Roger worked In the Shelbourne before joining me in Killiney in 1991.

This was one of the best things that could have happened as over the years we became firm friends and colleagues.  Roger did his best to calm me down (not an easy task) and also helped me with my accounting and bill paying.  We regularly had rows but always went back to being friends after a pint or two in The Ramblers Rest.

I miss him enormously.