By https://www.theguardian.com/profile/martinfarrer
Publication Date: 2026-06-09 20:58:00
Neale Daniher’s daughter Bec: “You inspired so many, but to me you were just my father”
Benita Kolovos
Daniher’s son Luke said that while the crowd knew him as a footballer, coach and campaigner, to them he was a “man with a sweet tooth who occasionally hid his chocolate chip cookies from us four kids.”
One of my dad’s happiest memories wasn’t a football memory at all. It was possible to observe how the children became parents and how the grandchildren grew up. The older I get, the more I realize that my father’s greatest legacy is not what he accomplished, but what he passed on – the values, the perspective, the example.
Daughter BecCEO and spokesperson for FightMND, says her father was her mentor:
I once heard that grief is the price we pay for love and I loved you without limits. That’s why I’m happy to carry this sadness, because it comes from it, it comes from such a great privilege to have had these laughs, these lessons, these challenges and…
