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Graham Hill - visitor to Castlebar


Posted by Royal on June 01, 2011 at 16:41:13:

I read in an old newspaper dated December 1975, that former World Champion Driver Graham Hill was a regular caller to Castlebar Airport.
He made many trips there in his own aircraft, visiting friends in the West of Ireland. He died that year, in a light plane crash in the UK.
He was World Champion in 1962 and 1968 and his son Damon was World Champion in 1996. The article also mentions that then school girl Emer Downes from the Newport Road was the proud owner of a signed autograph from Graham.

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