Congratulations to Alan Downing who celebrated his 40th birthday with family and friends at Bertie’s Bar, North Main St. Youghal. Alan was born way back in 1969. Other births that  year were Steve Staunton, soccer player – Ken Doherty, snooker player -  Sonia O’Sullivan, runner – Michelle Smith, swimmer and the year Neil Armstong landed on the moon.
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Alan is a big music fan (favourite bands include The Strangler’s, The Clash and Ska Music) but his all time greatest song is ‘Tainted Love’ and Alan is known to give it a blast on Bertie’s Golf society bus when the boy’s are on tour.

Alan had a fantastic time dancing the night away but all his friends wanted to hear was Alan doing his party piece by singing and dancing to his favourite song……… Soft Cell’s version of ‘Tainted Love’.

Unfortunately by the time Alan starts singing everyone feels they want to run away, for some reason they just want to get away from the pain of the singing that he puts them through. Everbody packs their things and go!
Happy 40th Birthday Alan!
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