Fahy fired up for home marathon win

ROY FAHY would dearly love to win Monday’s Champion Sports Cork City Marathon after going so close in last year’s June Bank Holiday showpiece.

The 34-year-old Cork athlete had victory in sight for much of last year’s race. He was within 50 metres of the eventual winner, Alan O’Shea, before the Bantry doctor — who now tutors medical students at UCC — pulled away from him at Turner’s Cross.

And he had second place in his grasp until the Opera House where Wieslaw Sosnowski overtook him.