An incredible search for the owner of a US military medal ended in a Donegal pub after a relative with the same name was discovered.
Hugh Farren, the owner of Farren’s Bar in Malin Head, was shocked to discover that people in the US were attempting to track down his family to present them with his grand-uncle’s Purple Heart award.
His grand-uncle, also named Hugh Farren, was born in the same pub in Donegal in 1904 and had been killed in action in World War II almost 80 years ago. Hugh emigrated to America and was a firefighter in Boston before joining the US Navy.
