An Officer and a Gentleman, that was once how the eloquent Pat Fanning, former president of the GAA, described his former Mount Sion team-mate Vin Baston, and a fitting description it was, the popular and ever-courteous Baston having reached the rank of Commandant in the Irish Defence Forces before his untimely death in 1963 at the age of 44.

THE well drawn Ballyverry Kate looks the part in the Waterfront Kitchens A1 Stakes, the feature at tonight’s benefit meet at Curraheen Park, in aid of Passage GAA Club.