Ronnie Delany –  Gold Medal Hero of the 1956 Olympics

Ronnie Delany – Gold Medal Hero of the 1956 Olympics

‘One of my proudest moments was when my son said to me, later in my life, “Dad, I never knew that you were a famous sports person until I was about 10 years of age”. I thought that was beautiful. To him I was just Dad. I wasn’t Ronnie Delany the iconic athlete.’...
Sonia O’Sullivan – Ireland’s 5000 Metre Star

Sonia O’Sullivan – Ireland’s 5000 Metre Star

‘I don’t like to go a day without running. If you keep doing it every day, you enjoy it a lot more. You go to bed knowing you’re going to run the next day and you have it in your mind where you are going to run. If you’ve had a late night, and you go out and run, you...
Strange Tales from Croke Park

Strange Tales from Croke Park

Looking at the American Invasion Tour’ of 1888, the Tailteann Games of 1924-32 and the Thunder and Lightning Final of 1939. Complete access to all articles on this website for €12 / year...
Willie Mullins – Commander of the Turf

Willie Mullins – Commander of the Turf

An interview with the Cheltenham Festival’s most successful trainer of all-time, a man who had racked up 94 wins by the close of the 2023 festival. Young Willie was in the saddle from the age he could toddle. In his boyhood, he read as much as he could about the...
Paddy Mullins (1919-2010) – The Quiet Man of Racing

Paddy Mullins (1919-2010) – The Quiet Man of Racing

On Paddy's watch, the Doninga Stables in Goresbridge, Co. Kilkenny, was the biggest National Hunt yard in Ireland, and Paddy was the country’s most successful National Hunt trainer. Complete access to all articles on this website for €12 / year...