McDonagh in link with fast-food rival

THE Margin can reveal how Supermac's, the family restaurant chain, comes to share a part appellation with McDonald's one of its main rivals.

Supermac's founder, Pat McDonagh was playing football with his school, the Carmelite College, Moate, against St Jarlath's College in Tuam. Apparently he had "one of his better days out" and one of the wags on the sideline nicknamed him Supermac - after Malcolm Macdonald who, at the time, was an ace striker with Newcastle United.