Dungarvan
Leader 11 February 1950
Tom Tobin, writer of the Spotlight column in the
Leader received a letter from Thomas D McCue (native of
Abbeyside and brother of Jack McCue) in San Francisco relating to the first
Irish ship flying the tricolor to pass through the Golden Gate:
‘On Thursday morning January 27 I witnessed one of the
greatest thrills of my exiled life when the first Irish ship ‘Irish Plane’
first to fly the Irish flag, sailed through the Golden Gate…Later in the day I
had the pleasure of visiting the ship and meeting a young man from Dungarvan,
Michael Shalloe, who is a cadet aboard her…In a very short time my son Capt
James McCue and myself had him travelling around San Francisco seeing the
sights. Later…my daughters, Mrs James P
Moloney and Mrs Frank J Mealy, known in Abbeyside as Margaret and Dorothy McCue
entertained our visitor to dinner. My sister
Aileen McCue enjoyed Michael’s visit very much as she knew his father’.