In 1960, Quaid was a part of the County Wexford team that won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.
[1] In January 1972, IRA member Peter Rogers escaped from HMS Maidstone, a prison ship moored in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Fleeing south across the border into the Republic of Ireland, Rogers settled and married in County Wexford.
Rogers was sentenced to death, later commuted to forty years imprisonment, but was eventually released under the terms of the Belfast Agreement.
[2] In 2014, Sinn Féin held their Ard Fheis (annual party conference) at the Wexford Opera House, which contained a plaque in memory of Garda Quaid.