http://www.examiner.ie/current/ipage_19.htm Irish Olympian and journalist David Guiney dies in Dublin by Barry Coughlan THE death has taken place of well known Irish sporting personality and journalist David Guiney. Mr Guiney won an AAA title for the Shot Putt in 1948 and went on to compete for Ireland in the Olympic Games in London that year. He was a superb athlete in his day, was a sprinter and a high jumper of note but it was in the Shot Putt event that he made his name and broke the Irish record on several occasions. The 79 year old died peacefully in Dublin on Saturday after a short illness and is survived by his wife Phyl, sons Roddy and Philip and daughter Gillian. A former Civil Servant, he went on to become a sports journalist with the Irish Independent and then was appointed Sports Editor of the Irish Press, a position he held in the early 1960s. He then went on to become the main Irish sports reporter for the Daily Mirror and immersed himself in writing books on sporting subjects as wide ranging as golf, soccer, rugby and his beloved athletics. He became a major authority on statistical information relating to the Olympic Games and once discovered that, in the first modern games in Athens, an Irishman — John Pius Boland — won a medal for the mens singles in tennis. An accomplished after dinner speaker, Mr Guiney was witty, perceptive and always popular with his audiences. He took great pride in the fact that he hailed from Kanturk in Co. Cork. He wrote a column for the Evening Echo.
