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GAZETTE
DECEMBER 1988
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a r r i va l. They bore, w i t h t he
graciousness one wou ld expect,
Tony 's tales of far flung conquest
on the fields of friendly endeavour.
Their father, that veteran cyclist,
Tom Bacon, kept a strict eye on
matters by limiting the range of
Tony 's imagination. Tony was not
only the first person to readily
accept the challenge, wh en I
requested him to undertake the
mara-cycle at a late and vulnerable
hour, but was also the first to break
the " n o a l coho l" ban by ordering
" G & T, ices and s l i c e s " in
Dundalk on the return journey.
Vivian Ma t t h ews has rubber
legs, as I can attest to, from my
a t t emp ts to keep up w i t h him as
we entered Belfast.
Michael Maguire was the first of
25 solicitors from various Bar
Associations to arrive in Belfast, in
just five hours. John Co f f ey, the
glamour boy of the trip, made it
back in five hours approximately.
Michael Irvine also made it back,
having been delayed on the way up
o w n i n g t o l eakage f r om his
" c h a m b r e d ' a i r " . It t o ok a
mechanical engineer to repair the
puncture. Business delayed David
C l a r k e, i n j u n c t i o ns we r e his
priority, but he caught up w i th us
and was back in Dublin on his
bicycle w i t h everyone else. A & L
Goodbody assigned t wo persons to
undertake the task in Ian Moore
and John Larkin. Those of us who
have had the pleasure of dealing
w i t h A & L Goodbody k now that
there are at least always t w o on
the other side. Vincent Harrington,
f r om Boyle, carried the flag for
Harry Wynne (pronounced Winey
locally). Brian McMahon fresh from
his cycling tour in France, looked
like a defrocked parish priest. Why?
you may well ask? He looked satis-
fied and had been through it all before.
B r endan Wa l s h, t he o t h er
veteran in our midst, almost fully
recovered f r om his crash into the
rere of a parked motor vehicle in
France the previous summer, frost
bite on his big toe f r om a climb of
Mont Blanc later in the autumn and
a pulmonary embolism around Christ-
mas time, took it all in his stride. So
relaxed was he that he took an
hour's snooze on the side of the
road in the blazing sunshine, some-
where between Dromore and Belfast,
and hence his foray into doggerel.
In Belfast, we were joined for
dinner by t w o of the directors of
the Benevolent Fund, Brian Garrett
and Tom Burgess, both of wh om
organised their own fund raising for
the Benevolent Association. When
it came to paying the bill, our
northern colleagues had ensured
that the vino had f l owed freely in
every sense of the wo r d. To t hem
a special thank you.
Maurice Cassidy brought along
his own personal minder in the
form of David Tarrant. All activities
were recorded on video by David,
unexpurgated copies of wh i ch are
available at a cost of £1 , 000.
Edited versions are also available at
£25 and contributions will be
donated to the Solicitors' Benevol-
ent Association.
For the record, £ 3 0 , 0 00 was
raised for the Solicitors Benevolent
Fund. Members of the legal pro-
fession and indeed others f r om
outside the profession contributed
most generously. I got a great deal
of satisfaction out of organising the
trip but most of all the fund
benefitted. I want to take this
opportunity to thank those who
responded to the call and who
partook in our cycle. To those fund
raisers f r om every Bar Association
who raised the money, and lastly,
those members of our profession
who donated so generously. Ours
is a good, generous and caring pro-
fession and one we should all be
proud to be members of.
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