THE PIONEERING namesake of a popular Barmouth Cafe is having a fund-raiser held in his honour.

Gillian Mullin, who named her Cafe ‘Murray’s’ after her brother Murray Corashy, is hosting the event later this month to remember her brother who lost his life just five days before Christmas after a valiant 30 year battle with Parkinson’s disease.

Murray enjoyed a prestigious career in aviation training new captains and testing new aircraft.

He had spent his last few decades living in Greece where he lived with his wife and had raised his adopted Romanian daughter.

Gillian, who has owned the Barmouth institution for seven years, remembered her brother as a “kind, loving man” who she could always use as her “own personal Google”.

“He was just my favourite person, so generous and full of life,” she told the Cambrian News.

“He loved Barmouth, he said he came a stranger but left a friend - it sounds sentimental but he just had that effect on people."

“On Thursday 21 April, between 11am-3pm, everyone is welcome to the cafe to remember Murray and raise money.

See the full story in this week’s Meirionnydd edition of the Cambrian News