I blogged previously about the controversy around moving the Belfast City Marathon from Bank Holiday Monday to a Sunday.
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The Belfast City Marathon is one of Northern Ireland’s premier sporting events. More than 20,000 people hit the streets on Bank Holiday Monday for the race, including 3,300 marathon runners and 11,000 who participated in five-person relay teams. The event raised thousands for charity. It is mass participation sport at its very best.
Now that this year’s marathon is over, there is a movement afoot to switch the race from Monday to Sunday. This would save significantly on the costs of policing the event, and limit traffic disruption in the city on the increasingly busy Bank Holiday Monday.
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I don’t consider myself a fan of the GAA, having grown up in a part of the United States where awareness of Gaelic Games is non-existent. But I’m deeply intrigued by the relationship between spirituality and sporting excellence, so the new book by Tyrone Gaelic football manager Mickey Harte was a compelling read.
The title of the book, Presence is the Only Thing, is the first signal that it won’t simply be about training, matches and winning. In the book, ‘presence’ operates on a number of levels, from Harte being present for his players, to Harte’s memory of the presence of Paul McGirr and Cormac McAnallen – Tyrone footballers who perished in tragic circumstances, to Harte’s awareness of the presence of God.
Continue reading ‘Tyrone Football Manager Mickey Harte Book Review: Presence is the Only Thing’
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