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Podcast: The Runners Reunion Podcast
Episode: Join us this episode as we follow Richard Mulligan's incredible journey from one of the top runners in Ireland to the top of the Country Music charts decades later
Description: Born at the notorious Sean Ross Abbey, Richard Flaherty was forcibly taken from his mother hours after birth. Good fortune smiled when he was fostered by the Mulligan family. Despite the stigma, supported by his adoptive parents while living on their rural family farm, and possessing an internal drive he first seized on his athletic gifts in football, then to running where at 17 he wore the Irish colors of the national team for the first time. Prodigious talent took young Richard Mulligan to Providence College and success, and on graduation he returned to win Irish titles on the roads...