Someone sent on a short note to me to say that Stan O'Neill of Rising Sun AC passed away on Thursday the 14th of January 2016.
Stan O'Neill won the Cork Junior Cross Country Championships in 1952 followed by fellow Ballineen man Dennis McCarthy. Both were scoring members of the Rising Sun AC senior team that won the Cork County Senior Cross Country Champioinships in 1956 and 1958.
Stan O Neill RIP., other names of note in that team: front 4th left Phil O Sullivan RIP.,also only recently deceased, back 2nd L Denis Collins RIP , Co Senior CC Champion 1955,and was runner up 54,56 and 58. front 2nd L Sonny Nyhan RIP a leading hurler with Ballymartle at that time, front 3rd L Ted Murray who gave many years of service to Cork athletics as Starter.
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