WATCH: Iconic Newspapers 2021 GAA Hurling Season Preview podcast
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The waiting game is almost over with competitive intercounty hurling on the horizon once more after a long Covid-19 layoff. Iconic Newspapers, of which the Offaly Express, Tullamore Tribune and Midland Tribune are a part, has produced a pullout publication which is in papers and on the shelves this week.
The Iconic group has produced a hurling season preview podcast on the back of that publication and you can listen to it below and gear up for the season ahead with Limerick as defending champions. Featured on the podcast are a selection of Iconic s sports editors and reporters, including Noel Dundon (Tipperary Star/TipperaryLive.ie), Colm Kinsella (Limerick Leader), Brian Lowry (Leinster Express) and Robert Cribbin (Kilkenny People). Limerick Leader editor Donn O Sullivan is the host.
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Tullamore Harriers stalwart to take over at helm of Irish athletics
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LONG time Tullamore resident John Cronin will take over the most powerful position in Irish athletics when he is elected as president of Athletics Ireland next Saturday.
Cronin will be elected unopposed, replacing Georgina Drumm who had been elected as president an annual Congress in the Tullamore Court Hotel in 2016. The Louth woman beat Ray Flynn on the same day that John Cronin was elected as chair of competition and deputy president.
A native of Donegal, Cronin moved to Tullamore in 1983 to take up employment with the former Burlington Industries. A talented mid distance runner in his youth and the national U-16 800m champion in 1976, he has given a life time of service to athletics, serving in a variety of roles from local to international level.
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