Cork County Council’s decision to erect a special memorial in Mitchelstown in honour of Mick Meaney has been described as ‘over and beyond imagination’ by his daughter Mary.
Mick Meaney became an International celebrity after he was buried alive in a coffin in Kilburn, London on February 21, 1968 before emerging 61 days later in a blaze of world-wide publicity.
Mick was originally from Ballyporeen, Co Tipperary but the memorial will be unveiled in his adoptive town of Mitchelstown where he worked for Cork County Council for many years.
It will feature the inscription: ‘Mick Meaney – A man who dared to dream when dreams were not allowed’.
With a time capsule design, it will show a picture of Mick emerging from the coffin and will be inserted into a fawn coloured stone slab in the New Market Square.
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