Patrick Mullins remembers his best friend Ronan Lawlor, a talented jockey who tragically died in a freak accident 14 years ago. The article discusses their friendship and the impact of Ronan's death on the horse racing community.
We're sitting in the foyer of the Lord Bagenal Hotel in Carlow. Deep in the heart of Mullins country. Just before we start to talk, a lady approaches Patrick Mullins from behind and taps him on the shoulder to say hello. They step away for a few moments and she embraces him in a way like he might be her own son. They chat briefly before she leaves and Patrick sits back down to speak. “You’ll never guess who that was?,” he says. “That’s Ronan’s mother”.
Bizarrely, Ronan is who we’re here to talk about. Some 14 years ago Patrick’s best friend, up-and-coming jockey Ronan Lawlor, was tragically killed in a freak accident on the gallops of trainer Pat Fahy’s yard. It happened less than a kilometre from where we sit, in Fahy’s Ellen Lodge Stables in Leighlinbridge. It was a devastating loss for Mullins and all who knew Lawlor, who had celebrated his 21st birthday a few weeks before and was due to sit his driving test later that morning. ********** They’re young boys, still of primary school age, impishly posing with the Irish Gold Cu
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