Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Don Irwin – A one-of-a-kind spirit

Donald (“Don”) Grombacher-Irwin—engineer, educator, linguist, bridge expert, boat-building visionary, and Ballymahon’s most enthusiastic town twinner—set sail for the great beyond on 30 January, 2025, after a brief but spirited battle with pancreatic cancer.

 No doubt, he’s already made new friends, corrected someone’s French pronunciation, and is deep in debate with Einstein over the finer points of physics.

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