His nephew and niece, Billy McGreanery and Marjorie Roddy, described how after their mother’s death aged just 30, their uncle Billy – their father Desmond’s only sibling – became like a second father to them. "Billy was three years younger than Desmond, but they both were very protective of each other, and relied on each other. “When our mother Mary died of leukaemia in 1960, at the age of just 30, it was Billy who stepped in and became our second daddy. We were very young when this happened,... Read this story
