One fine evening in the summer of 1926, Pat and Con O’Callaghan cycled home from an athletics meeting in Cork city to a family farm in Knockardsharrive, owned by their mother’s relatives, close to where the O’Callaghan’s brothers grew up in Derrygallon, a few miles outside of Kanturk, in the north of the county.
They were well known and popularly regarded at the time as among the most exciting of Cork’s sporting prospects, although later events transpired a little differently.
Pat O’Callaghan, tall and strong for his age, always fancied himself as a Gaelic footballer and rugby player first, then a sprint hurdler and high jumper second, winning a series of medals in those events wearing the red vest of Banteer Athletics Club.
Things cha …
- March 19, 2022
