Meet & Train, Swords

Some images from the first Meet and Train Women’s 2 Mile Cross-Country in Swords – the early leaders followed by the second group, with Blackrock’s Mary Butler prominent; groups including Sue Lynch, the league’s organiser and local athlete Catherine Walsh, Elaine from Blackrock, the second placer passes a graffi-decorated Portacabin and the Clonliffe team (to […]

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Crusaders Run Swords

Here we are before the two mile ordeal at the first Meet and Train race of the year – Maureen, Emma, Geraldine, Dee, Mary….After the start, Emma lies behind Mary and Maureen, with Geraldine and Dee just behind. Geraldine’s new orthotics are working fine. So are Maureeen’s pedal pushers. Emma, seasoned campaigner that she is, […]

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New Track for Stride Ethiopia

Back in Yirgalem in the deep south of Ethiopia this week is Mick Bourke, founder of the Stride Ethiopia charity, of which I am proud to be a trustee.While there, Mick will supervise the work of the three coaches and hopefully manage to create a six-lane dirt track to allow the youngsters to train in […]

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NO SAMON NO FUTCHER

“THE writing was on the wall for Fianna Fail TD Cecilia Keaveney when she returned to her Donegal North East constituency on Sunday following the Ard Fheis. Emblazoned in blue paint across the wall at the front of the family home in the seaside town of Moville was the slogan ‘No Samon No Futcher Thanks […]

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Cows in St Luc

Am image from the sister Meabh (wouldn’t you know she was an artist and a brilliant one at that!) of cattle wandering up the road under the appartment at St Luc in the Val d’Anniviers in Switzerland (turn right in Sierre). My family has visited this area regularly for over two decades and come to […]

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Family Notices

A lovely pic of Mum and Max – her second grandson, who lives in France. Oldest grandson Ben, now aged 26, is getting married next February.

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