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  • The star pupil has taken over career guidance 

    The star pupil has taken over career guidance 

    In what I think was 2002, the notion landed to get da tickets for the Fairyhouse Easter Festival as a birthday present. Apart from the fact that the day we went was the coldest day I was ever at a sporting event anywhere, the other abiding memory is if Gordon Elliot taking a mount in…

  • Watching, admiring, hoping

    Watching, admiring, hoping

    Did you ever watch somebody, sporting or otherwise, and just get an inkling straight away they were destined for stardom? Off the top of my head I could name a plethora, quite a few of them close to home.  Graham Geraghty and Emma Duggan are two that jump off the page. On a larger scale,…