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Wed 02 Feb 2008How rugby put Spring in step
MEMORY LANE DICK SPRING: REWIND THE spool of Dick Spring's life and sporting images keep flickering past. Before politics or business, there was sport. Before rugby, there was football and hurling. Before schooling in Roscrea, there was Kerry.
Accidents of geography and birth pointed his sporting life in a single unequivocal direction: the GAA. His father, Dan, won three All-Ireland medals with Kerry, in 1933, 1939 and 1940. The Spring family home in Tralee was a ball's kick from the Kerins O'Rahilly's home pitch.
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