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Mon 08 Aug 2008Pain and pride in front room as fans find a silver lining
"NOT ONE invitation went out!" joked Maura Egan as her Clondalkin home was taken over yesterday morning by neighbours, friends, relatives and every media organisation in the country to join herself and her husband Paul as they watched their son Kenny Egan take on China's Zhang Xiaoping for an Olympic gold.
Word of the Egans' open-house policy had spread and, with bunting all along the street and camera crews parked outside the house on Woodford Downs from the early hours, there was no mistaking the home of Ireland's great Olympic hope as even those unaccustomed to such early Sunday hours arrived to watch history being made.
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