The founder of the Grange athletic club.- Paul Barry.
“Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the Man.”-A.E.Houseman.
As written by my father Sean Buckley ,probably as a favour to Donie Turner ,an athlete who came under Paul’s benign influence . This article appeared in various papers in the south in Autumn of 1965. This article is the archetypal story of the charismatic founder who sets up an athletic movement amongst the young and then just as he has only started he dies suddenly . So great is he missed that his followers are imbued with the greatest of energy and the club that he has founded goes onto great success ,locally, provincially,nationally and eventually internationally. This arc of success rises in the a small country area in North Cork in the early 1960s ,surging to great national success in mid
