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Local boy with ‘Fastest Feet’ in Ireland to run in Millrose Games

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Eight year old schoolboy Charlie Sweeney, who is a pupil of Radharc a Mara Primary School, Mervue, will represent Ireland at the famous Millrose Games indoor athletics meet in New York on February 11.

Runners, joggers and walkers get ready for annual GOAL Mile

On your marks! The traditional Goal Mile returns to the city and county

The Olympics doesn’t fire the imagination anymore

We tend to look at Olympic Games through the glass prism of the rose-tinted glasses. I remember seeing my first colour TV while watching the athletics at the Munich Olympics. It was the era of the flares, the locks. It was a rare look at events that happened somewhere else across the world and we were watching it. Remember these were days not long after the wonderment of the moon landings. Our brains were sponges for saturation of colour, of exoticism. The only live events on television were All-Ireland semis and finals, the FA cup finals, the European Cup finals and the Eurovision.

 

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