The Life of Gregory Peter Francis Daly   
      
   A brief bio by his Big Brother Danny Daly   
      
   Copyright 2015.   
      
   Gregory Peter Francis Daly was born on the 14th of February 1976 in Cooma   
   Hospital, New South Wales, Australia, the third son of Cyril Aloysius Daly and   
   Mary Philomena Daly nee Baker. Greg had two older brothers, Matthew Joseph   
   Anthony Daly (born 21st of    
   October 1969 in Cooma Hospital) and Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly (born 20th of   
   November 1972 in Hull Maternity Hospital, England), as well as two older   
   sisters, Brigid (born 26th of October 1971) and Jacinta (born 8th of January   
   1974) both also born in    
   Cooma hospital. All five children are the children of Cyril and Mary. Greg's   
   first home was 7 Bent street in Berridale. He is a redhead, and I remember us   
   holding him in the back yard when he was little. Greg was bright - straight   
   away at school he was    
   academic, and the brains in the family. Excellent at mathematics, technically   
   minded like his father. Greg went on the family holidays like us all to Tathra   
   and the East coast of NSW. He played with me and Peter Collins a lot of the   
   time in Cooma, were    
   we lived in the 1980s, at 6 Bradley Street. I remember Greg had a Transformers   
   dinobot which I was always jealous of. Greg liked dinosaurs a lot as a kid,   
   and he had a star chart globe later on which lit up the ceiling of a room with   
   the constellations    
   from a lamp inside it. He played armymen with me constantly as a kid, and we   
   played cricket in the back yard for years. Greg was reasonably popular at   
   school, and had friends, and had a crush on a 'Chelsea Mensch' he once told   
   me. Greg would go to the    
   river Murrumbidgee with us and swim. He would also go with me and Matt and   
   Gerard Bryant to a river just beyond Numerella a lot as a kid, which had a   
   whirlpool sort of mini rock falls, and it was great fun. Greg read the same   
   sorts of fantasy books I    
   read in his teens, and he read all of Alan Dean Fosters 'Spellsinger' series   
   (6 volumes) which I owned but never got around to reading, and he also read   
   Mike Jeffries 'Loremasters of Elundium' series which I also owned but never   
   got around to reading. Of    
   course, he read the Belgariad books, and loved them like me and Matt, and he   
   probably read 'The Twilight Realm' by Christoper Carpenter but I can't   
   remember for sure. He's a big Star Wars fan like me, and owns the original   
   trilogy on video Cassette. He    
   is musical, like me, at the keyboard primarily, and has advanced to level 4,   
   but says its too much time and practice to bother with going anymore. Greg   
   married Christie Gonzaga a number of years back, and they have one son James   
   Adelino Cyril Daly.    
   Recently Greg was in England with mum (who is still there on a 7 week holiday)   
   with James, and he had a good time. Mum reported James came out of his shell a   
   lot, and took a shining to Josie, Madelenes friend. Greg has degrees in   
   commerce/economics sort    
   of field and philosophy I think and a grad dip in accounting from memory, and   
   has recently studied aged care to work in that field. He worked in the Public   
   Service here in Canberra for a number of years, as well as in Perth were he   
   currently lives, but    
   didn't like it much. He has worked at Woolworths a fair bit, and worked for   
   YCW (Young Christian Workers) for quite a while before his other main jobs. He   
   met Kylie Letham (I think that is her surname) in YCW and dated her for a   
   while, but that didn't    
   last, and he met Christie in YCW also I thin, and ended up marrying her. Greg   
   has remained Catholic his whole life, and went to St Pats in Cooma from kindie   
   to year 8 I think, but then Marist brothers in Canberra when we moved to   
   Canberra in 1990. He    
   might have done year 8 in Marist - I can't remember for sure. Greg composes,   
   and has written several piano melodies in his time, as well as working on a   
   concerto/symphony sort of work. He also has recorded a song called 'Holiday'   
   with Christie on vocals,    
   and its an ok pop song. Greg listens to a moderate amount of modern music, but   
   is not huge on CDs. He likes TV a fair bit, and supports Carlton in the AFL,   
   Australia in the Cricket, and the Bulldogs in the Rugby League like me and   
   Alan Bradley, our    
   sister Jacinta's husband. Greg has seen them play live a number of times, and   
   we've both seen them play live the Canberra Raiders here in Canberra. Greg had   
   a go at writing a few years back a Sci Fi work called the 'Sentopol Wars'. His   
   grammar needed    
   work, but he had good ideas for Sci Fi. I think he can write ok, but needs to   
   wait till later on in life when he has more knowledge and experience. He has   
   capabilities in this area. Greg has a good friend who worked with him in Tax   
   here in Canberra    
   called Terrence, and I am a friend of Terrence as well. We went to Terrences   
   place in North Canberra a number of years ago with mum, and had a good time.   
   Terrence lives with his mum and dad. Greg drinks beer, and is known to   
   occasionally get intoxicated,    
   but he's no drunkard. He's a good brother, and I think life will ultimately   
   work out ok for Greg. He has family, a home they are paying off, and things   
   are ok for him. I am sure he himself would want things to be perfect, but   
   that's just the way of life    
   for some of us, isn't it. Greg's a good bloke, and a good brother.   
      
      
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