Sam in action at a league race last year (Photo: Slaney Cycling Club)
The team here at stickybottle would like to extend our sympathies to the family, friends of club mates of Sam Darcy who has sadly died after battling illness.
Sam will be known to virtually everybody in the Irish cycling community as the driving force behind the Gorey Three Day, based in and around the Co Wexford town every Easter.
While Sam lived most of his life in Dublin, he moved to Gorey some years ago to enjoy his retirement with his wife Betty. She then sadly died in 2005.
He made the Gorey Three Day what it is today; one of the best known, most enjoyable and hard fought races in the country. It has been running for 46 years.
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He had a style of his own – both when you met him in person and when he whizzed past you on his motorbike in the Gorey. He was one of the true characters of the sport and it’s no exaggeration to say that the contribution made by Sam, and others like him down the years, has built and sustained the domestic racing scene.
Apart from his involvement in the Gorey, he had been a member of Usher Irish Road Club for many years and was always involved in the many races the Dublin club promoted or helped to promote.
He passed away in the early hours of this morning, Saturday June 23rd, at Gorey District Hospital. He had fallen ill just earlier this year.
May he rest in peace.
Funeral Details-Death Notice
The death has occurred of Sam DARCY of Gorey, Wexford
Formerly of Dublin. Beloved husband of the late Betty and brother of Patrick, Peggy and Antoinette.
Reposing at Flood's Funeral Home, McDermott Street, Gorey, from 4pm on Sunday with removal at 6pm to St. Michael's Church Gorey. Funeral Mass on Monday at 11am with burial afterwards in St. Michael's Cemetery, Gorey.
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