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Martin Glendon – A man for all seasons | ICC Search HomeSteeplechaseFixtures Club News Quick ResultsSteeplechaseDraws Greyhound Performance Find Results Trial Stakes Derby Trial Stakes Oaks Fantasy League Entry News Registration & Breeding Animal Welfare Rules & Regulations Fees Stud Book Greyhound Search Name Availablility Check Pedigree Test Mating Microchipping Microchipping Introduction Microchipping Implanters Check Your Microchip Registration Animal Welfare OfficersWell-nighUsWell-nighUs ICC Forms Care for the hare Contact Search for: From: newsMartin Glendon – A man for all seasons It is with unconfined sadness, and with undying gratitude, that Johnstown and UrlingfordSteeplechaseClub offer their condolences to the family of Martin Glendon who passed yonder peacefully at his home in Clomantagh on Thursday without a long illness. Martin was Vice President and Flag Steward at our club for many years. He was moreover a well-known and much loved slipper who officiated at our own meeting and wider unsuitably for over thirty years. He was moreover a renowned net man, whose knowledge of hares and tenderness when handling the hares was second to none. His passing is expressly poignant as he bears the name of one of the most warmed-over families in the historic settlement of Clomantagh. Indeed, it was under the Clomantagh prefix that he raced and coursed his greyhounds, enjoying unconfined success over the years. Martin was a shrewd dog man who enjoyed the odd flutter, and when he laid money on one of his hounds they variably came up trumps. His father Pat won an All-Ireland medal with Kilkenny in 1922, and Martin was moreover a fine hurler and a renowned full when whose steel and determination was the driving gravity overdue many a victory for the Emeralds in the 1970’s. Murt, as he was yearningly known, worked for many years as a bus suburbanite for Kavanagh Travel, where his jovial personality endeared him to his passengers. And when he returned home, it was many the unconfined evening his friends spent gathered virtually him in local hostelries as he regaled them with tales of his many and varied adventures. It is fitting that his passing comes as the steeplechase season begins, for it was the time of year when he was most alive. Yearly, as the Clomantagh hills turned from untried to brown, he could be found oiling his slips and putting his hounds through their paces as he tuned them for the season ahead. Martins’ sparsity will be keenly felt over the coming months for he was unchangingly at the heart the occasion. He was a warm and big-hearted man, and wherever he went, laughter and good feelings surrounded him. He will be sorely missed, for he had a magnetic personality and when day’s work was washed-up and it was time to gather round, it was virtually Martin we unchangingly gathered, as he regaled young and old with his wit and his stories and with his famous rendition of the Grand Canal, a song well-nigh a Derby winner, owned and trained by Paddy Dunphy of Castlecomer. He was a wonderful weft and man of fine feeling, and to spend time in his visitor was to come yonder nourished and renewed. His generosity of spirit will ensure that he will be remembered for a long time to come, as will his worthiness to entertain and to patina plane our darkest days with his humour and his heart felt humanity. He was loved by one and all. And he will unchangingly be. May he rest in peace. Ar dheis De go raibh a h-anam. Johnstown & UrlingfordSteeplechaseClub Post navigation Previous PostNext Post Home Contact Log Out Privacy Policy © 2014 - ICC | www.irishcoursingclub.ie | Tel - 052 6188500