5 people who many people of Lurgan feel deserve a statue erected in their honour

Lurgan already has statues to the famous greyhound Master McGrath and to The Linen Bleachers, but is there someone from our town who deserves their own statue?

From amazing sporting stars, scientists and artists, to brilliant local people raising money for charitable causes, here are some of the iconic people from Lurgan and local area whose legacies and achievements many feel deserve to be immortalised.

There is a statue of Lurgan born writer, mystic and artist George William Russell, otherwise known as AE Russell, in Lurgan Town Hall and another statue in Dublin.

Many in the Co Armagh town feel it is time some of their heroes were given the accolade of a statue. Candidates include former Celtic manager Neil Lennon who was an iconic soccer player from Lurgan.

Another noted Lurgan man is Len Ganley who famously refereed four World Snooker Championship finals between 1983 and 1993. He took up snooker aged nine, and worked as a chimney sweep in the town before moving to England.

Another sporting legend is Daniel Wiffen who recently won Gold and Bronze at the Paris Olympics. Daniel began his swimming career at Lurgan Swimming Pool which has since been demolished.

Mollie McGeown was born in 1923 in Aghagallon and was a pioneer in dialysis and kidney transplantation, overseeing the first dialysis centre in Northern Ireland and designing the "Belfast recipe" for post-transplantation care.

Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an astrophysicist from Lurgan who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967.

Who do you think deserves a statue?

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