From the fair city,
With Kevin Barry & Tucker Daniel.
Hello folks hope you are all well.
This week the birds were at Tramore a come back race of approx 89 miles and again we had an east wind to deal with, the birds were released on Saturday at 8-45 am and a stiff race was forecast. I didnt have far to go to find the winning bird in the fed, I did predict last week that I would win it but at least I got the club right. Winning the Sarsfield and taking the first two on the fed sheet on 1330 and 1326 is the flying postman himself Frank McEnroe the two birds came together but went into different lofts and as he said it was just the nearest one to hand that he clocked, the first one into the clock is a yearling widowhood hen Parkes Bussaertt X Mardon Van Reet that scored a couple of times as a young bird and whose brother won and collected some good cards when Frank was in the Celtic club, the second bird also a widowhood hen is a bird that came into Frank last year as a youngster, he tried to get rid of the bird tossing it as far north as possible but it always came back, so when he reported her the owner P. Farrelly & Son of Belfast told him to keep her and try her on the road, try her he did and 2nd fed isnt a bad return for a little TLC with a stray, I got up to Franks place on Thursday (my day off this week ) well he picked me up and dropped me home, thats what you get when you teach the wife how to drive she fecks off with the car, but as you can see from the photos he has a really neat and tidy set up and still has 25 cocks from his team left and the same amount of hens all racing at the moment, about 80 young ones on the dark and a team of stock birds as well. The club does very well this week also taking 3rd and 4th fed with crazy Eamon Nestor in the 3rd spot on 1323 and also recording the same velocity is Tucker in 4th with his grizzle hen that won the first race. Pat Craven 5th Club 14th fed, Bren Stafford is 6th and 16th fed, just a mention for our top novice so far this year Deco Gorman & Son who finish 7th club and 26th fed, well done lads keep it up.
CABRA R.P.C TRAMORE 17/5/08 31 MEMBERS SENT 705 BIRDS
A record birdage for a old bird race in Cabra this week and taking
1st & 6th club and 5th fed was John Nash with a vel's of 1322.158 & 1256.899
2nd and 7th fed went T.OBrien vel 1312.893, 3rd were J.OCallaghan & M. Farrell
with a vel of 1275.820, 4th was P.Hennessy & son, 5th place were
D&M Mc Loughan vel 1262.144
Ballymun
Tommy Nelson takes another win here and also has the first 8 in the club and all in the fed result starting at 6th fed on 1317 down to 48th fed on 1270, super flying Tommy.
Finglas R.P.C. had 30 members sending 810 birds.
Delighted to see an old club mate of mine M/M Declan Killeen winning the club on 1299 and taking 8th fed as well, Derek Larkin has two together both on 1290 for 2nd and 3rd club 12th and 13th fed, L. Donnelly 4th on 1284 for 18th fed, Derek Cummins Son & Dann are next in 18th spot on the fed sheet with Collie Owens right behind him in 22nd fed,
In 9th fed is J. Bracken of the Tallaght Premier club, 10th fed is A. Sheridan of the Finglas South West.
Clondalkin
M/M Bernard Russell stepped up to the plate again this week with another win and 11th Fed on 1292, A & J McMahon 2nd and 32nd fed and R & J Nolan 3rd on 1273, Tony Kavanagh takes 4th on 1261
Celtic Inv R.P.C.
20 sent 240
M. Whelan has a super day in the Celtic this week with the first 3 positions and 15th and 19th fed, Dan Breen is 4th with Williams & Doyle 5th M/M J. Salmon finish the result in 6th. Sean Forde supplied the results for me this week and he promised that he will be getting more info on the birds in future weeks, hang on to him lads he a treasure.
Greenhills & Dist
22 sent 394.
Brian Brady is going great guns up in the Greenhills this year and takes another win this week on 1283 for 21st fed, B & M Harris are close behind with a pair for 2nd and 3rd on 1276 & 1274 35th and 41st fed, Brian comes back in and mops up the rest of the cards in 4th, 5th, and 6th.
Blanchardstown.
This week saw another win for Joey McLaughlin & Sons with a velocity of 1274, also taking 2nd & 7th . The winning pigeon was a Soonjten X Byss Blue Cock who has already finished 3rd this year from Thurles. The 2nd bird was a Cheq hen again down from Yank McLaughlins bird. Following on from his win last week Safat Duran took 3rd, 4th & 8th position. His 3rd place bird is a Janssen X Van Loon Cheq hen. With Paddy Maples & son taking 5th , Nolan & Kelly 6th , Philip Sherry & Sons 9th and Gary Deegan taking 10th, that completes this weeks results.
Northside & Dist.
23 members 380 birds
it was a good day for M&G McCourt who take 1st 3rd 4th and 9th the winner is a 2 year old Cheq pied roundabout hen doing a vel 1264
next up is Gem Brown in 2nd place with a 6 year old cock!!!! then we have K & D Perry & Dtrs in 5th, 6th & 8th positions go to S Mohan,
while P & D Cleary take 7th and the last position goes to T Smith in 10th.
Got a phone call from Ger McCourt on Tuesday saying that Davy Hutchinson of Hutchinson Bros had won the N.I.P.A. inland national from Rosscarbury on the Monday with a yearling roundabout hen, from Ger and all of us here congratulations to Davy, Annette and their daughter Leanne
on a fantastic result.
DUBLIN NORTH EAST 15 members sent 332 birds.
Taking his second red card of the season we have Joe White with a 2 year old widowhood cock
Of Louis Cooreman breeding from stock obtained from Bob Fenech.
1st Joe White 1260, 2nd Jim McGovern 1251, 3rd and 4th Joe White 1249 & 1246.
Kildonagh & Dist,
28 sent 561 birds
1st and 3rd this week goes to J. Hanley first vel 1267, 2nd Gerry O Mara & Fam, 4th J. Gannon & Sons, 5th M. Matthews.
Trim R.P.C.
This weeks result from Trim has a familiar look to it with Tony Morgan again taking the first 3 positions top vel 1261, and Des Rainey collecting the next 3,
Donnycarney RPC. Tramore . 24 members sent 374 birds.
In 1st place were Daniel Bros with a three year old Cheq Cock on 1256.74. They just beat M. Feeney & Son into 2nd who had a two year old Blue Tip Hen doing 1254.45. In 3rd and 6th places was T. Kane & Son with a two year old Blue W/F Hen on 1221 to lift the club Nom and then a yearling Blue Cock on 1200. 4th place went to P. Poole & Son timing a yearling Blue Hen to do 1203 and G. Daly & Son timed a Belgian rung yearling Cheq Tip Hen doing 1200 for 5th. Looking at the Donnycarney result it's obvious, that at this stage of the season, there is nothing to beat experienced birds and experienced fanciers.
Dublin Premier 7 sent 130.
J .Flood has another good week in the premier with a 1st and 3rd 1230 and 1204. D. Andrews spits his pair for 2nd on 1219.
Rialto & Dist R.P.C.
24 sent 385
P. Dowling is best this week on 1258 and also takes 6th spot, Pat Holmes is 2nd and 5th 1249 and 1246, Tynan Bros who are having a terrific season come in 3rd also on 1249 with B. O. Grady 4th 1248.
East Wall & Dist 13 sent 273 birds.
Jos & Kevin Reilly take the top 2 places here with a pair of yearling cocks doing 1238 & 1233, Robert Dowdall & Son has a 4 year old hen in 3rd spot on 1216, John Thompson also with a hen this time a yearling 4th on 1215, Arthur Churchyard takes the next couple 1213 & 1206,
Dublin North County.
A late one from last week first.
Barleycove 11/05,
Gerry O Reilly takes the win on 1220, Alan Maguire & Sons is 2nd 1205, Paddy Whelan 3rd and another Paddy this time Paddy Madden 4th .
On to this week now where 11 sent 272 birds,
M/M B & P Emmett have the red card this week on 1241, Alan Maguire & Sons who was second last week keeps up the pressure with 3rd on 1209, Matt Flanagan is 5 yards back in 4th position on 1205.
Coolock 14 sent 220,
Anthony Osborne sends this in this week for the Coolock club,
1st is J. Shannon & Fam, Bill O Mara & Gdtr 2nd with A & A Osbourne in 3rd spot.
Anthony also sent the top 3 from the previous weeks races Rosscarbury and Barley cove and taking 1st, 2nd and 3rd in both races is non other than Bill O Mara & Gdtr, well done Bill, Gerry didnt lick it of a stone.
Dun Laoirge
No surprise this week as Ray Matthews takes the first 6 again.
1st bird is a Van de Weyer cock doing 1194.00
2nd is a Janssen/Verheye Cock doing 1193.229
3rd is a Van de Weyer cock doing 1182.035
4th is a Van de Weyer Hen doing 1165.561
5th is a Janssen/ Verheye Hen doing 1143.536
6th is back to the Van de Weyer doing 1142.541
Take note that ray only races widowhood Cocks up the land. but he sent a few of his hens to get them ready for the channel.
Had a nightmare with this article this week, I almost had it complete when the bloody computer decided to give up the ghost and turn itself off and yes you guessed it I didnt save what I was writing and had to do it all again, so if I left anything out please forgive me, also had a bit of trouble with my youngsters on Monday found them holding corn and throwing up, this happened a couple of years ago and I ended up losing 9 or 10 of them due to not acting fast enough, when I seen it this week first thing I done was to get some nystatin into the water and stop feeding them, 24 hours passed and making sure all the crops were empty I started them back on a very light diet of barley and pellets mixed with some lemon juice and medistatin from metpet, through the week I increased the amount of food , its Friday now and you would never think they had been ill at all, droppings are better than ever and didnt have to cull anything, will keep an eye on them over the next few days make sure they didnt pick up any other ailments while they were down but hopefully they will be fine. what I did learn from the last time was dont ignore it and hope it goes away because it wont and it is relatively easy to treat if you catch them early enough.
Thats it for this week folks,
Happy racing.
Kevin Barry
kevinbarry88@gmail.com
0863292654
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Tramore - 17/05/2008