The funeral mass for businessman Ben Dunne has heard how he was a “good, decent, generous and loving Irishman” who remained close to his family throughout his colourful life.
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Wicklow had a huge representation at this year’s Community Games, held at the Visual Centre and St. Patrick’s College, Carlow, with competitors from the Garden County bringing home a haul of medals in various disciplines.
It is 40 years since Eamonn Coghlan overtook a Soviet runner on the final bend of the 5,000-metre race at the World Championship in Helsinki. He smiled, clenched his fists and kicked on. That image is etched in the memory of Irish people old enough to have seen it at the time. The whole country watched.