Long-serving Quinlan could be left out in the cold

MICHAEL QUINLAN, one of the longest serving members of the executive of the Athletic Association of Ireland (AAI), could become a casualty of the new structure that has been put in place to govern the sport when the chairs of the new committees are elected at next weekend’s annual congress in Limerick Junction.

The Corkman, who was elected treasurer of what was then known by its Irish acronym BLE, in 1990, is seeking the position of chairman of the finance committee of the AAI, which would keep him in the new executive.

He faces stiff competition, however, from Mary Coghlan, herself an active athlete, and the sister of high hurdler and national record holder and Irish Olympian, Peter Coghlan.