Dan Keating died in 2007 and was 105 years old. He was one of some 20 people who took part in the War of Independence and lived in the 21st Century - Dan was the last surving member of this group. Dan was from Ballygamboon near Castlemaine, and attributed his good health to the fact that he walked at least seven miles each day to check on his flock of sheep on his beloved Tralee mountain.

Dan was a typical Kerry man in many ways, including his fierce loyalty to the GAA and the Kerry football team, and it is said that he had attended every All-Ireland hurling and football game since 1922. In recent years, members of the football fraternity always ensured that he got a ticket, if only because they admired the humble way in which he recalled various epoch-making activities of his long life. But this did not mean that he did not make every effort to recall the far-flung circumstances of his life, which reached back beyond 1916 to the days when the republican Volunteers, the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) and other pro-Redmond groups engaged in lively and controversial debates in the town of Tralee, where he worked as a shop assistant.

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