The Gazette 1988

GAZETTE

DECEMBER 1988

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

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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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