Ballyclare - Notable Denizens

Notable Denizens

  • Ballyclare is the hometown of Andy Cairns, guitarist and vocalist from one of Northern Ireland's top hard rock exports - Therapy?
  • Former Ireland and British and Irish Lions rugby captain Willie John McBride is a resident of the town.
  • Caroline Lindsay, historian of the Nutt and Lindsay families of county Antrim
  • European Tour golfer Gareth Maybin attended Ballyclare Primary School in the town during the late 1980s and early 1990s and currently lives in nearby Doagh.
  • Celebrated psychologist and artist Alan Finlay
  • Former all Ireland Decathlon champion and Commonwealth Games athlete Hill McNeill still lives on the Ballycorr road, Ballyclare;(as of Jan 2012). Hill is the son of James B McNeill who was one of many old soldiers who helped form or who played for Ballyclare Comrades FC. Hill was an active runner with East Antrim Harriers AC (based in Ballyclare) for many years. Other notable runners (among many) from the same era were Steve and Charlie McCooke, Johnston Scott and Jimmy Todd. For more information on the Harriers see their website.
  • World renowned singer Fr Eugene O'Hagan of the top selling classical group The Priests lives in Ballyclare.

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