Nostalgia: A look back at 70 years of Cork City Sports
Dr Orla Flynn with Kenneth Loomis, fiance of Olympian Priscilla Frederick watching Olympian Priscilla Frederick practice her high jump. Picture: Darragh Kane Photography
As the Cork City Sports celebrates its 70th anniversary, a brief look back at those seven decades shows how the event has changed, while still embracing all that is good in this sport of athletics.
You have to go back more than 70 years to see where it all began. The first in the current series of Cork City Sports meetings took place on July 26, 1949. This meeting replaced the old Cork Drapers Sports, a fixture that had been discounted for some years previous because of lack of funds.
