From the fair city
With Kevin Barry & Tucker Daniel
Hello folks and welcome to another race in the Irish South Road Federation or as some wags were calling it the Sunday south road fed, yes the weather played its part again this week with another postponement of the marking because of the bad forecast for Saturday. The rain came on Saturday alright but cleared a bit quicker than expected but you can only guess at what the weather is going to do and in fairness every other south road organisation postponed as well. The Sunday dawned and it was a while before the rain cleared from the south west but thankfully it did and turned into a beautiful day with high broken cloud and good sunshine, a perfect day for racing and with a good south south west wind pushing them along we taught it would be fairly quick, although I didnt think it would be in the 2000s and as usual a lot of birds just didnt make it down and are probably in the outer Hebrides by now.
CABRA R.P.C. 21 MEMBERS SENT 407 BIRDS
This weeks 1st prize goes to Donal Kelly with a vel of 2084.455
maybe a fed topper as I haven't heard anything to beat it well done
Donal. Yes John looks like Donal does top the fed with this 3 year old Karl Boeck semi widowhood Blue cock, he has a bit of form as a young bird but then Donal moved house and broke this fella, these are from birds direct from Karls loft and Im sure there is plenty more to come from these birds and from Donal himself. 2nd prize goes to Bodie & Dobson with a vel of 2053.858
3rd was M Mc Manus hasn't been out of the top three in the last three
weeks, 4th with a vel of 2040.419 was D & M Mc Laughlin. W Mc Carthy
was 5th & 6th with vel's of 2033.657 & 2031.572 also taking 8th & 10th
its was a good week for W Mc Carthy. Well that's all till the open next
week J.OCallaghan secretary Cabra R.P.C.
Greenhills & Dist 18/322
B & M Harris takes the red card in a very quick one here and will probably take 2nd fed on 2065.9, Brian Brady is again in the hunt on 2049.8, then its Alan Nulty with 4 virtually together for 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th and velocities of 2044, 2039, 2038, 2036 Id say the quick start was burning in the hand clocking that lot Alan.
Dublin Premier 6/120
Looking like 3rd fed and taking the red card in the club is J. Flood on 2064, john has his birds in great form and also takes 3rd club on 1977, D Andrews splits his pair for 2nd club on 1991.
Kildonagh & Dist 17/ 337
Its That man again this week Gerry O Mara & Fam who take 5 of the first 6 positions with a winning velocity of 2039.9 and with the open next week its the right time for the loft to be finding super form, the only position Gerry doesnt take is 3rd and that goes to M. Mathews doing 2031.
Finglas R.P.C. 25/600
Derek Cummins Son & Dann make it two on the trot this week with a velocity of 2038, another Derek this time Derek Larkin is right behind in 2nd spot on 2033, just beating A. Farrell into 3rd on 2032 he also had another in the clock straight away for 4th doing 2029.
Clondalkin R.P.C.
One to catch up with from last weeks Mallow race and 1st doing 1569 is Paddy Dandy & Fam, in second spot was Darren Church & Dtr doing 1548, and M/M Bernard Russell & Son taking 3rd on 1520, Bernards birds coming into form and he proved it this week when 12 members sent 170 birds to the Rosscarbury race, he takes 1st 2nd 4th and 6th with velocities of 2036, 2029, 1977 and 1945 great flying Ben , last weeks winner Paddy Dandy has to settle for 3rd on 2003 and R & J Nolan is 5th on 1970.
Dublin North County 10/120
Paddy Madden is the man of the day in the North County this week taking 1st, 2nd and 4th club doing 2036.0, 1970.9 and 1962 for the 4th position. Then its two each for Alan Maguire 3rd and 6th 1966 & 1946 and G. O. Reilly 5th and 7th on 1946 and 1945.
In the DUBLIN NORTH EAST 14 members sent 309 birds.
As the saying goes it hard to keep a good man down, but in this case its harder to keep
A good partnership down, despite this being their first red card of the year the lofts of Mr & Mrs Hayden are well out in front with the clubs points. The winner this week is a 2 year old Soonjten cock being a grand son of Junior and its fair to say this line is really doing the business for them 1st club 1st fed, 1st club 5th fed, 2nd club 5th open, ect ect must be great to have a pair like this in the stock loft.
1st Mr & Mrs Hayden 2030, 2nd J Brady & son 1989, 3rd Mr & Mrs Hayden 1985 and 4th Jim McGovern 1984.
Rialto & Dist 22/423
M/M Arthur Furlong are top of the pile this week with a 1,2 in the club and velocities of 2014 and 1999, Jimmy Gibson is 3rd on 1996 with Curdale Bros & Nephew next on 1995, Tynan Bros finish off the result in 5th and 6th doing 1987 & 1983.
Sarsfield R.P.C. 33/472
A first win of the season for Pat Craven with a yearling Sootjan/Van loon blue cock, he was 2nd club as a youngster from mallow and looks like a promising future for this fella, his velocity was 2008.8. Right behind in 2nd spot is Tucker Daniel on 2005, this one is a Red Daniel Van Reet roundabout hen out of a good stock pair that have already bred winners for Tucker. In a quick race like this you will always get close calls and none more than the fight for 3rd with M/M Neville Leonard & Dtr on 2004.9 just piping Pat Byrne & Fam who finish 4th on 2004.2. No room for messing around today. M/M Padner Byrne clocks his 6 year old cock that was second club last week to be 5th on 1989, with brother Mick Byrne close behind in 6th on 1988 with a 2 year old cock. Frank McEnroe gets 7th with the only other hen in the result on 1983.
Shelbourne R.P.C.
1st and taking their 2nd win of the year is M. Byrne, Duffy & Sons on 2007, they also have another in the clock for 3rd on 1997, Brian Lyons & Sons split these two for 2nd on 2003, Jimmy Toner has 2 for 4th and 6th 1997 & 1980 with Bob Allen getting in between his two for 5th place on 1989.
Northside & district
18 members sent 282 birds
1st & 10th is M & G McCourt, the 1st bird is a Cheq w/f van loon/van Reet cock on 1997, the nest mate to this cock has also won,
having a good season is the ever present S Mohan with 2nd 4th 6th 8th. next up in 3rd is B&B Fitzsimmons with a blue cock,
and to make up the remaining positions we have K&D Perry & Dtrs who had a good result with 5th 7th & 9th.
East Wall & Dist 13/266
Arthur Churchyard has a good day in the East Wall club winning 1st & 2nd club with two Checker cocks the first a yearling doing 1991 and the second 23 seconds later a 2 year old on 1986. Tom Byrne is 3rd again a yearling this one a check pied doing 1983, Derek Moran is 4th on 1982 with Robert Dowdall & Son 5th on 1973 with the only hen in the result, Jimmy Delaney takes 6th spot on 1971.
Dun Laoirge R.P.C.
Ray Matthews again dominates the club this week with 5 from the six positions , the first one doing 1928 is a Janseen/ Ver Haye, hes also 2nd with a Van de Weyer cock on 1914, 3rd this week is Noel Massey with a black tiped Van de Weyer cock on 1902 and yes youve guessed it this bird was bred by Ray Matthews, 2 more of the same strain are 4th and 5th and another Janseen/ Ver Haye takes 6th spot for Ray vels 1894, 1891, 1887.
Over to last weeks fed toppers and the Trim R.P.C.
Tony Morgan wins again this week and as last week does it in style with the top 3 in the club on 1838, 1809, 1808. Paul Pepper is 4th on 1753.
Had a nice chat with Tony Ingle from the Shelbourne club last weekend, you may remember Tony races as Ingle Bros and Son and topped the fed from Thurles in our first race. The Ingle name goes back a long way in Dublin pigeon circles, in fact Tonys father won his first race back in 1911 almost 100 years of winning in the family. It nearly didnt happen for Tony as he has the dreaded pigeon lung and was going to pack up a few years ago he actually went as far as selling his winning family of birds but a good friend of his Nadger Smith from the Greenhills club went down and persuaded him to change his mind, Nadger sorted him out with a few birds and helped design and build a more fancier friendly loft for Tony and although he still suffers bad with his breathing he makes the point that he is better off with them and the ailment than not having the birds at all. Getting back to the pigeon and it is down from Nadgers birds the dam having won Barleycove and brothers of hers both won Mallow. The Sire topped the fed twice from Thurles, so plenty of winning blood lines there. Like most of the best fanciers I have spoken to over the last few years the motivation for winning drives these people on and when I asked him why he wants to win so much its not for the accolades of being the best although thats has a part in it but its the thoughts of losing that really upsets him. I hate losing Kevin he told me and the more I dont win the more I want it, so thats it in a nutshell really, drive and determination and a will to be the best. Thanks Tony for the yap and I will try get down to you during the year and maybe take a photo or two and show the readers how your loft is set up. Just before I finished speaking to Tony I asked him did he know my father as he was born and reared down in Ringsend as well, and low and behold it turns out they are first cousins, it truly is a small world and it just shows that pigeon racing is in the genes although the ones passed to me must be missing something, they say they didnt let much over the bridge in Ringsend years ago they must have held on to the piece of DNA that carries the winning of pigeon races because it didnt make its way up to Ballyer, well not yet anyhow.
Well on that note I will sign off for this week, thanks again to all the P.O. people in the clubs for the results and keep it going, in a few weeks we will be into the double channel/ inland races and this can be a nightmare for anyone trying to put together a report, so I would ask you to get the results in as early as possible, thanks again until next week.
Kevin Barry.
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Rosscarbury - 05/04/2008