Yes, Danny's main club was Letterkenny, but during the time he resided in Dublin (early 70's) he did wear a Clonliffe vest on a few occasions.
Those were the days. I used to go to boarding school in Howth/Malahide area (www.suttonparkschool.com) and I used to see Danny and about 15 runners doing their long runs on the roads in the area. I ran with them on a few occasions.
Simple working class men, who worked hard and ran hard. Some of these guys were bus conductors, and most of them had menial jobs, and how they found the time and energy to run 100 miles a week was impressive.
I also remember the Irish International, priest, Father Paddy Coyle, a great runner also, who raced every weekend, and then would rush back to his people for Mass.
The quality of running was so high in those days.
I recall running a North Leinster schools 5000 on cinders at Santry stadium in 1974, and I still remember the result.
1. Derek Carroll (Clonliffe) 15:00.00
2. Gerry Finnegan (Clonliffe) 15:33.0
3. Martin Greene (Clonliffe) 15:57.0
4. C.Moulton (DFRC) 17:39.0
A few years later, after moving to England, Hercules Wimbledon, I managed to get down to 15:17.4 for 5000 on cinders. But I was never in the class of Carroll, Finnegan and Greene. Carroll and the Greene bros. went to America on scholarship, while Finnegan stayed in Ireland and studied commerce at UCD, training around Belfield.
In those days, I noticed that many of the top Irish athletes had unhealthy diets, with plenty of chicken and chips (fries), fish and chips and 'fry ups' in the mornings (bacon, egg, sausage and beans with fried bread), but that did not stop them from running fast.
Those unhealthy diets do catch up to you, and several Irish athletes suffered heart attacks in later life (Eddy Spillane) and others. Spillane became very obese when he stopped running.
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