Willie Neenan Is Still Running

Willie Neenan is still running as running to him is as much a part of his life As the lives of his athletic daughters and of Marie his good wife An Irish champion in his seventies and an Irish champion in his prime No doubt Millstreet's greatest athlete he's proved that time after time. Willie Neenan is still running to me that comes as no surprise He runs in sunny weather and when the rain pours from the skies He has run in the depths of Winter in the frost and in the snow Willie Neenan was a champion more than fifty years ago. He won a World silver medal for Ireland at the Master's Games in San Juan in eighty three Losing out on gold by the narrowest of margins in his surge for victory The Pipers band came out to play for him in Millstreet his Hometown He had proved himself against the World's best cannot keep a good one down. Willie Neenan is still running his great victories we recall Of Millstreet's many famous athletes the most famous of them all He was an Irish champion when I was a schoolboy And he will go on running until the day he die.