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A win for a club is never just a win. Not in the GAA. Not in a parish. It is something deeper, older, layered with memory and meaning, carried by people who have walked the same roads, trained on the same pitches, and worn the same colours since they were small enough to be swamped in a jersey worn by countless others before them.

It has to be the year of the Shark, that’s John ‘Shark’ Hanlon from County Carlow. He bought a horse called Hewick. He didn’t pay dearly for it (not even a thousand euro) and then won the Galway Plate last summer. He added another win at Sandown, and between the two he pocketed half a million euro. Not bad for a year’s work. But just last October he won the American Grand National at Fair Hills in New Jersey with a $160,000 dollar first prize. Now he is 33/1 to take the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March. D’ya think, maybe.

There are some tragedies in life that resonate with us all, but those that feature the commonplace are the ones that hit home the hardest.

Camogie players from across the county and city gathered in Athenry last night for an emotional candlelit vigil to remember their colleague Kate Moran who died this week after suffering an injury in a camogie match in Ardrahan on Monday evening.