There was widespread regret in Mullingar at the news of the passing of Karen Jackson, Oaklands on Wednesday, Feburary 19 last. A kidney transplant patient, the 31-year-old hailed from one of Castletown-Geoghegan's best-known hurling families.

Her late father Pat was a legend of Castletown-Geoghegan and Westmeath hurling, and was named on the Westmeath Hurling Team of the Millennium in 2000.