Brendan Behan’s torch song The Auld Triangle came to mind last week as more than 200 wheelchair anglers with physical disabilities and mobility impairments gathered along the banks of Dublin’s Grand Canal to compete in a fishing competition organised by the Lucan branch of the Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA) in partnership with Waterways Ireland and Goldfish Angling.
In a spectacle, the likes of which was probably never witnessed before, groups from around Ireland took up positions from the 12th Lock in Lucan downstream for more than a mile along the canal bank….
Irish Times 16/09/2014 Read the article ‘Wheelchair anglers’ annual competition a wonderful occasion‘
