Dan McEvoy from the Hebron Road, opposite Nowlan Park, went to his first All-Ireland final in 1945. He was 17-years-old.

ALLFORMEGROG, heavily run when strongly fancied in the two most recent renewals of the Waterloo Cup, was again out of luck at Altcar yesterday when he started 5/2 favourite for the Altcar 1000, a valuable eight-dog feature.

Actor Vinnie Jones has entered a greyhound in the UK’s last major hare-coursing event, it was revealed today.

FORMER Fine Gael T.D, Liam Burke and his co-owner, Mossie Barry, received a tremendous welcome when the arrived home in Cork on the Manchester flight yesterday afternoon with the Waterloo Cup, following their success in the prestigious coursing event at Altcar the previous day with their bitch Henrietta.