Ireland's unprecedented success at the Paris Olympics conjures up Vladimir Lenin's saying: 'There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.'
Between Ronnie Delany's 1500 metres success on the track in Melbourne in 1956 and Michael Carruth's 1992 victory in Barcelona, Ireland did not win a single gold medal. In the 1960s and 1970s, we claimed only a solitary bronze.
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