Main pic: Cllr Jimmy Kavanagh (R) in Croke Park, before losing his phone!
A Donegal County Councillor has penned a heartfelt thank you to a Dublin fan who came to his aid in Croke Park last weekend.
Cllr Jimmy Kavanagh was celebrating the final whistle in Donegal’s fine second-half blitzing of Monaghan when he realised he had lost his iPhone. He frantically searched for the phone and his friend called his number to see if it had been picked up by anyone.
Much to his relief, his friend, who was now on the bus home, finally got a reply to his call and the expensive phone was safe in the hands of a Dubs supporter. However, he had no way of calling for a taxi to take him to meet the finder, so another helpful Blues fan called a cab for him and even paid the fare on his account. Needless to say, Cllr Kavanagh compensated him with cash. A short-time later, the kind Antoinette reunited him with his iPhone.
“The relief is tremendous,” Cllr Kavanagh wrote in a Letter to the Editor which was published in the Irish Times.
“There is just so much dependence on phones now, not least that the tickets for the two games on Sunday were on it as well as bank cards etc. We hear so much bad news, but I just wanted to share that there are still an awful lot of decent people around and I had the pleasure of meeting two of the very best on Saturday night.”
Read his letter in full, below:
Sir, – Last Saturday I attended the football championship quarter-finals in Croke Park and, at some point, I lost my iPhone. I only noticed at full-time and having searched in the immediate vicinity of my seat without success, I held little hope of ever seeing it again.
However, a few calls to my missing iPhone by a friend who was by now on a bus home, and I discovered that it was alive and well and in the possession of a lovely woman in Tallaght who had found it leaving the stadium and took it home with her and waited on someone to call. I then just had to get there and that was where Jimmy came in, a staunch Dublin GAA man who was now aware of my problem. He rang an Uber for me and paid for it from his own account. I refunded him with what cash I had, which didn’t meet the full cost of the taxi, but that was the least of his worries – he just wanted to help.
So, a trip to Tallaght and a meeting with the lovely Antoinette, who waited at home until I got there – she was heading out for the night – and I was reunited with my phone.
The relief is tremendous. There is just so much dependence on phones now, not least that the tickets for the two games on Sunday were on it as well as bank cards etc. We hear so much bad news, but I just wanted to share that there are still an awful lot of decent people around and I had the pleasure of meeting two of the very best on Saturday night.
So thank you Antoinette and thank you Jimmy. Up the Dubs, Donegal for Sam; and Antoinette and Jimmy: I owe you a few drinks if you want to join me for the celebrations in Tír Conaill. – Yours, etc,
Cllr JIMMY KAVANAGH,
Letterkenny,
Co Donegal.
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