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Pat Calnan revives the Courier
For over 40 years the Courier quit due to professional and events and forthcoming
or its predecessors provided a personal commitments there fixtures, just as the old Courier
valuable source of information then followed a period during did in its previous incarnation
about the performances which various attempts were but with a different layout. One
of the club’s athletes in all made to recruit a new editor feature which was incorporated
competitions and at all levels. but without success and in from the old Gazettes are the
But after its editor produced 2013 the committee decided news flashbacks going back 25
his last issue in September to discontinue the publication years, and makes for interesting
2010 no further issues were due to lack of a need for it. reading if you wish to trace the
produced for five years and beginnings of current major
for a while the magazine was However Pat Calnan, having athletes or the exploits of senior
discontinued due to the use stood down as Press Officer, figures in the club, and there
of alternative methods of decided that such a need are plenty of archival photos to
recording results. So it was still existed, especially as the jog the memory.
with some relief that last internet could not be relied As someone has commented
year the Courier re-emerged upon to find results easily. on the issues which have so
in a new format and style, They might be found on the far come out “They make for
thanks to the enthusiasm and website but not in one place very entertaining reading, as well
willingness of PP Pat Calnan. and finding races might as giving us results.”
involve a fiddly process of The new Courier was
There had always been a opening up large numbers of produced in October 2015.
means of recording the results files. “The older the event, the When it was last produced the
and achievements of the more chance that the link to a Courier came out every two
club’s athletes and from the website won’t work” and athletic months but Pat’s aim is that it
late 1970s this was primarily press reports might not give should be published monthly.
done by the Courier through the results of grass roots level so, after a long established club
its successive editors. The races. It seemed therefore institution was deemed to be
September issue, however, to Pat that the revival of the unnecessary in this digital age,
proved to be the last one Courier was necessary because it has been proved that with a
produced for five years as its it would bring all club results certain amount of drive and
editor relinquished the role together, including something enthusiasm there is still a place
to take on editorship of the it has in the past done well, in the club for a publication
Gazette. After the new editor reporting on obscure results that covers the progress of
from those members of the its members at the grass
club such as older members roots level and remembers
whose performances do not with affection the exploits of
get the coverage from the athletes in past days.
athletic press.
Ferdinand Alf
Bearing these things in mind
Pat has set out to revive the
Courier and the result is, on
the whole, a well produced
magazine full of useful
information including social
