[Not a valid template]At Bangor Sportsplex on Monday night. a good crowd from the athletics community joined North Down members at the gathering of Clan Brannigan in a surprise party to mark the 65th birthday of North Down legend Billy Brannigan. Billy, who started the endurance section of NDAC, now lives in Scotland but will run for Northern Ireland in his new age group on Saturday in the Vets International cross country in Dublin. Billy presented two trophies for endurance athletes to the club.
The function also served as a reunion for the North Down Vets team of the eighties which dominated veteran athletics in that decade.