Inside Track: A test for golfers, place-kickers and tipsters
Inside Track with Joe Carroll
We’re heading to four venues this Saturday. It’s the sixth running of the Éamon Carroll Memorial Challenge, and indications are they’ll be a record turnout.
Upwards on 30 teams of four were entered by last weekend, and the chances are more could get involved before the close of entries.
The event is in commemoration of our young man, the former St Patrick’s player who died in 2014.
The format will be the same as other years, golf on the Ballymascanlon Hotel course in the morning, and then in the afternoon, penalty-taking at Bellurgan United’s Flynn Park, and free-taking at St Patrick’s Pairc Éamonn.
The fourth discipline, if it can be called that, is at Dundalk Stadium on the night. This is where the fourth team member will be tasked with picking as many winners as possible.
The team that accumulates most points over the four events will win the Memorial Trophy, which was won last year by the combination of Ciarán, Niall and Aidan Rogan and Fearghal Malone.
The ten-race card at the dogs will have as its feature the final of the €3,000-to-the-winner Paddy & Éamon Carroll Memorial. Luckily for those who’ll be involved, Inside Track is not giving tips for this or any of the other races.
All money raised on the day goes to a local charity or cause.