Dick Hodgins: 'Between April and July, he’d be on the phone all night'

Dick Hodgins, former athlete and Cork City Sports administrator

A few years ago Frank Walley and Dick Hodgins were in Amsterdam. Athletics business, as befits two stalwarts of the Cork City Sports. They were having coffee when a familiar face materialised in front of them.

“Hello Dick,” said Sebastian Coe, not quite at his present eminence but famous nonetheless. “How are you?”