THE world of Irish athletics is a poorer place this week following the death on Tuesday 16 June at Dublin’s Beacon Hospital of PL Curran, Clonmore, Killeshin, Carlow.

CARLOW athletics legend PL Curran took one last lap around his beloved St Laurence O’Toole Athletic Club on Friday, when hundreds of mourners accompanied his remains on two circuits of the Mondo track that he had spent decades fighting to bring to ...