To implement the design Smedley hired programmers Brad McQuaid and Steve Clover who had come to Smedley's attention through their work on the single player RPG Warwizard.

In 1970 the Roman Catholic Church, through the then Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid, lifted its policy of disapproval or even excommunication for Roman Catholics who enrolled without special dispensation.

Smedley hired programmers Brad McQuaid and Steve Clover who had come to Smedley's attention through their work on the singleplayer RPG Warwizard.

His funeral mass was celebrated by the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid, and thousands lined the streets of the city as the hearse passed through on the way to Glasnevin Cemetery.

PC Gamer called McQuaid one of the " Next Game Gods " in its November 2000 issue, believing that he would eventually become one of the industry's most influential game developers.

John Smedley, Brad McQuaid, Steve Clover and Bill Trost who jointly are credited with creating the world of EverQuest have repeatedly pointed to their shared experiences playing MUDs such as Sojourn and TorilMUD as the inspiration for the game.

John Charles McQuaid, who served as Archbishop from the 1940s to the early 1970s, bought the gardens in the centre of Merrion Square and announced plans to erect a cathedral there, but to the relief of Dubliners, for whom the gardens were an oasis of nature in the centre of a busy city, his plans never came to pass and the gardens were eventually handed over by his successor to Dublin Corporation and opened to the public.

* McQuaid Hall – Built around 1900, it was named for Bishop Bernard J. McQuaid, Seton Hall ’ s first President from 1856 – 1857 and 1859 – 1867.

McQuaid Hall was both a boarding house for students and a convent for nuns before serving its present purpose as the home of the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations as well as the Graduate School of Medical Education.

Discussing doping in 2012, UCI president Pat McQuaid emphasised the fact that his organisation was " the first entity to introduce blood tests, the first sport to introduce the test for EPO ".

John Charles McQuaid, the future Archbishop of Dublin ), and the men who put words to de Valera's concepts for the constitution ( John Hearne and Mícheál Ó Gríobhtha ) faced conflicting demands in his drafting of the article on religion.

Aradune Mithara is the alias McQuaid originally used for his player character in the MUD Sojourn, its successor TorilMUD, and other MMORPGs, as well as the name of a fictional character in the MMORPGs he has designed.

McQuaid and Butler formerly worked for Sony Online Entertainment on the team developing " EverQuest ".

With the pedigree of the " all-star " team at Sigil and the bravado of CEO Brad McQuaid, there were very high expectations for the game among MMO fans and the press.

The following day, May 15, 2007, Sony Online Entertainment announced that they had acquired Sigil's " key assets ", while further stating that Sony Online Entertainment would hire approximately fifty of Sigil's employees and that Brad McQuaid would be consultant to SOE as a creative advisor for Vanguard.

* 27 December-Dr. John McQuaid is consecrated as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, an office he will hold for more than thirty years.

Today, the game is most notable as the commercial start for McQuaid, Clover, and artist Milo Cooper, who would later work together at Sony Online Entertainment on EverQuest and at Sigil Games Online on Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.

Even the official site, which became unavailable since September 2007 ( possibly connected to Sony Online Entertainment's takeover of Sigil Games Online on 15 May 2007 ) and right now only contains a short biography about Brad McQuaid, offered only a shareware version of the game for download.

( McQuaid reportedly later apologised to the couple for his behaviour.

The Catholic Church leadership was divided between those like Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid who believed that it was the exclusive right of all parents to provide healthcare for their child, and younger moderates like William Philbin who saw some merit in state assistance to families.

Some bishops, like McQuaid, also feared that it could pave the way for abortion and birth control.

Coach Pat McQuaid has led the Nova Titans baseball team for 34 years.

Schools run by the Society of Jesus, such as Canisius High School, Fordham Prep, McQuaid Jesuit and Regis, and the Society of Mary ( Marianists ), such as Chaminade and Kellenberg, have not used Regents exams for decades.

Many of the original EverQuest team, including Brad McQuaid, Steve Clover and Geoffrey Zatkin had left SOE by 2002.

DikuMUD had a key influence on the early evolution of the MMORPG genre, with EverQuest ( created by avid DikuMUD player Brad McQuaid ) displaying such Diku-like gameplay that Verant developers were made to issue a sworn statement that no actual DikuMUD code was incorporated.

In October 2001, McQuaid resigned and went on to found Sigil Games Online, drawing many of the original developers of EverQuest from SOE to develop Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, an MMORPG that was released in January 2007.

Brad McQuaid is an American video game designer who was the key designer of EverQuest, a highly successful massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG ) released in 1999.

Smedley hired McQuaid and Clover in 1996 to work on an online role-playing game, later named EverQuest.

Sigil Games Online, Inc. was a computer game developer based in Carlsbad, California founded in January 2002 by Brad McQuaid and Jeff Butler, key development team members who created EverQuest, the most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game before World of Warcraft.

McQuaid and Butler left Sony Online Entertainment ( SOE ), the publisher of EverQuest, and formed Sigil Games Online to develop " the next big thing ".

Brad McQuaid, lead designer of EverQuest and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes ( both of which did not feature instancing at launch ), wrote an essay in 2005 arguing that instances can negatively affect the game's community, virtual economy, churn rate, and other factors.

* Bernard John McQuaid – He volunteered as a chaplain and accompanied the New Jersey Brigade to the seat of war, during which service he was captured by the Confederates.

Van Gundy began his basketball coaching career during the 1985-86 season at McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, New York.

Bruyneel ( left ) with Pat McQuaid during the 2006 Tour of California

In an IRC interview, McQuaid revealed that Aradune was a character from a series of books he started writing in his teens.

Despite McQuaid having left Sony Online Entertainment, the memory of his character remains, as does the jestful graffiti of the sewers of the city of Qeynos, stating simply, " Aradune is stinky ".

The original design is credited to Brad McQuaid, Steve Clover, and Bill Trost.

A number of influential MMORPG designers began as MUD developers and / or players ( such as Raph Koster, Brad McQuaid, Matt Firor, and Brian Green ) or were involved with early MUDs ( like Mark Jacobs and J. Todd Coleman ).

* April 13 – 14, 2008: Nature's Path Whidbey Island Marathon, a half and full marathon featuring Melanie McQuaid, an 3 time Xterra Championship and Dean Karnazes, Ultra marathon Man and Time Magazine's one of 100 Most Influential People.

He was replaced with Matt Odmark, Lowell's childhood friend and fellow McQuaid Jesuit High School alum.

Murphy and Moore shot dead Edward McQuaid, a Catholic man, on the Cliftonville Road on 10 January 1976.

Members of the Borough Council are Council President David Alexander, George Ehrmann, Carol Jenkins-Mitchell, Edward Kain, Jennifer McQuaid and James Perry.

However, until the retirement of Archbishop McQuaid in 1972, the Irish Roman Catholic bishops implemented a general ban on Roman Catholics entering Trinity College, with few exceptions, because of its largely Anglican ethos.

He also received significant input from John Charles McQuaid, the Archbishop of Dublin, on religious, educational, family and social welfare issues.

It was ordered to change its name by the Church authorities in 1955, a year after Fahey's death, by the Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid ( a former pupil of Fahey's and a fellow member of the Holy Ghost Fathers ), in order to make it clear that it did not have official Church approval.

Boxer was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1982, defeating Dennis McQuaid.

His best friend as child in Cootehill was John Charles McQuaid, the local doctor's son, and later Catholic Archbishop of Dublin.

Reverend Bernard J. McQuaid served as the first college president ( 1856 – 1857, 1859 – 1868 ) and directed a staff of four diocesan clergy including Reverend Alfred Young, vice-president ; Reverend Daniel Fisher ( the second college president, 1857 – 1859 ) and five lay instructors.