The transition from photographer/reporter/editor on weekly publications to author / publisher of books is a mighty leap. It’s a mighty leap of faith, hope and a dash of bravery too. Currow native and resident, Con Dennehy gave it a go and made it to ‘the other side’ without a scratch. In fact he’s about to…
Pardon my presumption but I bet you didn’t know that we’re right in the middle of a tree-hugging extravaganza and that it’s branching out all over Ireland. I wouldn’t have twigged it myself only for getting a message from John Lenihan about his favourite, local tree. Off I went to the files to root out…
Castleisland Rugby Club’s U-18 management team has set about a squad building exercise which is due to start out on a high point – on the highest point in Ireland in fact. This is a two-pronged strategy as the management team of Peter Browne and Tommy Griffin have invited the legendary World Mountain Running Champion,…
“A very successful and sociable book signing session at Ballymacelligott Post Office,” that was how proprietor, Brendan Mannix described Thursday morning’s very local event there. “Along with John Lenihan and author, Con Dennehy, the signing was attended by many local neighbours and friends of John Lenihan. Refreshments were provided by Amanda Mannix and Margaret Groves.…
Ballymacelligott Post Office will host a book signing session by its own world champion athlete, John Lenihan at 11am on this Thursday, July 2nd. Fresh from their Griffin’s Newsagents signing in Castleisland on Friday – where book stocks had to be replenished half-way through the two-hour session – John and his biographer, Con Dennehy…
They’re close friends of John Lenihan’s and one of them will launch his book in Tralee on this Friday night. Clare O’Leary, Cork and Mike O’Shea, Kerry have become the first Irish team to cross the Greenland Ice-Cap using skis and dogs and their story was on RTÉ One news this evening. It took them…
When the truly legendary, Caherciveen native and roving farm labourer, Mick Murphy won the grueling 1958 Rás Tailteann he was a virtual unknown. He trained and slept in woods outside Banteer in North Cork and he focused, with a single-minded madness for the previous six months, on winning that prestigious race – and he did…
Monday evening’s official opening of Lenihan’s Hill was no flash-in-the-pan or Johnny-come-lately of a notion. In fact, the seeds of the idea were sown nearly as soon as John Lenihan arrived home from Switzerland with that amazing World Mountain Running Championship title in his pocket in September 1991. At around the same time the excavation…
The third annual An Ríocht AC / Lee Strand 10 Mile and 5k Road Race will be held on this Sunday, May 11th starting at 11am. Last year’s event was a huge success when seven hundred took part, creating an unrivalled atmosphere from start to finish with a great buzz as all participants finished on the…
Imagine the scene: It’s 2012 and Pa Walsh, Mike Lynch, Willie Reidy and John Lenihan sit by the summit cross on Carrauntohill. Flurries of snow drift past in the chilling wind and all around it’s a cold bleak and barren landscape as far as the eye can see. Yet for all of this there’s a…
