by Padraic O'Maille | Jul 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Picture the bedlam. Christmas Eve 2011. We’d just collected a new six week old Labrador pup called Potter. In their collective enthusiasm the kids had taken him for a stroll by the beach and he’d fallen in to a big pool of ice cold water. ...
by Padraic O'Maille | Jul 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Reilly was intrigued with psychology and was constantly exploring what it was that set peak-performers apart. He maintained that if you could get inside the head of an uber-performer you could go a long way to replicating that in your own life too. To this end he had...
by Padraic O'Maille | Jul 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Finish the Race – It’s More Important than either the Time or the Position. Reilly would have loved Bud Greenmans job. TV producer Bud Greenman was packing away his gear following the 1968 Mexico City Marathon. It had been over an hour since he had...
by Padraic O'Maille | Jul 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Reillys Dadó operated a thriving business out of Conamara in the forties. He supplied the four harbours of South Galway Bay – Kinvara; New Quay; Bell Harbour; and Ballyvaughan – with turf from Conamara and returned laden down with the finest potatoes...
by Padraic O'Maille | Jul 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Brendan Behan was well aware of the power of expectations. Once, upon arrival in Canada he was asked by a Custom Official as to what his purpose for visiting the country was. ‘To drink Canada dry’ was Behan’s considered and honest reply. Reillys...