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Sat 06 Jun 2009Girl from the north country's fair comparison
ATHLETICS:It is no longer possible to refrain from labelling Ciara Mageean as “the next Sonia O’Sullivan”
IT WAS around six o’clock on Thursday when my friend Johnny called up looking to go for a jar in the Blue Light. The sun was still warm and it was one of those beautifully calm mid-summer evenings that can make the idea of living halfway up the Dublin Mountains seem very wise, unlike the feeling of complete madness you get some days in the winter.
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