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Article: Bullick's View - A new era for athletics.(Sport)
- Article from:
- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- June 17, 2005
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JUDGING by the sparsely scattered spectators, very few of you spent last Saturday at the Mary Peters Track and more's the pity. Blessed by glorious sunshine on the hottest day of summer so far, the Northern Ireland athletics championships featured all our biggest names in action on our own doorstep and it was genuinely good to be there. Behind rugby and cricket, athletics was always one of my favourite sports, though the clutter of life and work has meant less interest being taken in it in recent years. Back in the days of the Dale Farm Games and the 1986 Commonwealth Games, ...