<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=583699" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Willie Boy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Willie Neenan from Millstreet<br>What a marvellous athlete<br>Twenty years in time have gone<br>Since he won a world silver medal in San Juan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Munster and All Ireland's by the score<br>And other medals many more<br>Willie Boy was always best<br>Neenan first forget the rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seventy years and still going great<br>And still a name to celebrate<br>More than two tousand races won<br>By Willie Neenan number 1.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What was he like in his prime<br>And that's going back a long, long time<br>He was something special then<br>And he outpaced the fastest men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He's not one for self conceit<br>And he doesn't boast he just compete<br>Never ever heard him brag<br>Willie Boy is no windbag.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He'll remember eighty three<br>What a pleasant memory<br>Ireland's best and Millstreet's pride<br>With the World's best matched stride for stride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And with that his greatest success far away<br>Some say he should have called it a day<br>But has he reached retirement stage<br>when he still beats fellows half his age? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Running he will never stop<br>And he'll keep running till he drop<br>And he'll retire that's when he die<br>The one and only Willie Boy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=583699" data-title="Willie Boy de Francis Duggan" data-description="Willie Neenan from Millstreet What a marvellous athlete Twenty years in time have gone Since he won a world silver medal in San Juan. Munster and All Ireland's by the score And other medals many more Willie Boy was always best Neenan first forget..."></div> </div> </div>

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