Tag Archives: Ireland

Arthur’s Journey: Post 3

Arthur’s Journey Part 3: 337 Days to go Arthur Lanigan O’Keeffe has just become European Champion of the Modern Pentathlon. In a sport dominated by Europeans historically, let’s take a moment to process that. Apart from Boxing, long distance running and swimming, Ireland hasn’t had that much overall success in the greatest Sports event inContinue reading “Arthur’s Journey: Post 3”

Long Listed for the Irish Blog Awards 2015

I’m delighted to say that we have been nominated for Best Irish Photography Blog and Best Blog Post 2015. It really is a huge honour and I’m thrilled about it. We’re in the top 25 and will hopefully progress. Here are some people that I’ve met over the last four years:

Review : Karl Spain A Time For Jokes *****

Karl Spain ***** 5 Stars Gilded Balloon 16.15 It’s rare that a well-known comedian refers to me as Rochie, but after this festival I can happily that myself and Karl will remain friends. He lives about three kilometers from my parents house in Limerick/Clare but we had oddly never met before this. I knew heContinue reading “Review : Karl Spain A Time For Jokes *****”

Arthur has become European Champion!

He did it! Yesterday Arthur Lanigan O’Keeffe (@ArthurLOK1) became European Modern Pentathlon Champion in Bath finishing the competition on 1,487 points and streets ahead of his closest rival from France. He absolutely nailed the horse riding, smashed the fencing and shooting, and placed well in the running and swimming giving him a final points tallyContinue reading “Arthur has become European Champion!”

Our Boy Arthur: his next step

And so cometh the day and cometh the hour… Our boy Arthur Lanigan O’Keeffe who is a regular contributor here at TPJ is off to the European Championships. The summit of three years preparation falls on this next competition in Paris so we want to wish him well for getting to Rio 2016. He hasContinue reading “Our Boy Arthur: his next step”