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[Ian Niall] (born John McNellie) was born in Old Kirkpatrick on Clydeside. He was the son of a shipyard worker, but was diagnosed suffering from meningitis in his youth so spent his early years with his grandparents in the less harsh conditions of Galloway. It was on the banks of the Solway Firth that Niall's enduring love of the country was born. During the war, Niall moved his family for safety to north Wales. Overlooking the sea just outside Llandudno, Niall cultivated his land and kept various game birds. But the urge to write never left him. The Poacher's Handbook came out in 1950, and it brought him instant fame. Many anglers still maintain that Trout from the Hills, which he wrote in 1961, is one of the most accomplished works on the art of trout fishing. Again, it drew on his comprehensive knowledge of rivers, lakes and lochs throughout Britain. His love of angling never left him, and he eagerly responded to the challenge of fishing - in all weathers - a difficult stretch of water. That enthusiasm and passion Niall brought to his writings with delicate touches and delightful asides.

His 1971 novel The Village Policeman, about a man's life in Meirionedd and based on the family papers of Anglesey policeman Kenneth Williams, was serialised in the Daily Post. In childhood, Mr [Ian Niall] was sent to live on his grandparents' farm in Galloway after his younger sister died in a meningitis outbreak in Glasgow. Mr Niall was also biographer to Anglesey-based artist C F Tunnicliffe, arguably the greatest British bird illustrator of the 20th Century. A keen fly-fisherman, Mr Niall also edited the monthly magazine Angling and had a monthly nature column in Country Life. He also wrote for The Spectator, until he was axed by the then editor, Nigel Lawson.

FEW BOOKS remain in print for 50 years, but one which has is [Ian Niall]'s The Poacher's Handbook, a classic of the countryside whose spare prose evokes the feeling of the land, especially at night, with magically slight, sure touches. The urge to poach, the author declares, That book - part memoir, part instruction, part natural history, embellished with dark wood engravings by Barbara Greg - gripped my imagination as a boy, and has haunted me ever since; but it was many years before I discovered that Ian Niall was a pseudonym, and that the author's real name was [John Kincaid McNeillie]. When The Poacher's Handbook came out in 1950, it was recognised as a masterpiece of rural writing, and for the next 20 years Niall/ McNeillie contributed regular country columns to the Spectator and Country Life. He also edited the monthly magazine Angling. Yet he remained reclusive and, even when his work was widely recognised, preferred to shelter behind his pseudonym and keep to the high ground.

A fourth novel, No Resting Place, proved too violent for his original publisher, Putnam & Co, but it was seized on eagerly by Heinemann and appeared in 1948, as a first novel by [Ian Niall]. McNeillie's second debut proved no less remarkable than his first. Set in southwest Scotland, though the location isn't precisely disclosed, No Resting Place relates the fortunes, feuds, and misfortunes of the Kyle family, a tribe of \"tinkers\". The celebrated documentarist, Paul Rotha, took the book up and filmed a treatment of it, in County Wicklow, with Michael Gough in the key role, and a cast of Abbey Players, including Jack MacGowran, Noel Purcell, Eithne Dunne, Maureen O'Sullivan, and Diana Campbell in support. Some 18 months after his birth, during an outbreak of meningitis, in which his younger sister died, the infant McNeillie was sent to Galloway to be cared for by his paternal grandparents, [John Kincaid McNeillie] and Elizabeth McNeillie, then tenants of the Vans Agnew family of Barnbarroch, at North Clutag farm. It was in this horse-drawn time- warp, closer to the world of Robert Burns both in speech and custom than to the twentieth century, that McNeillie spent his childhood. It was a world and time he would never escape, an Eden that formed the backdrop to almost all he wrote, and almost all he cared dearly to talk about.

\"We build up our stars and pour adulation but somewhere along their fall from the top, a certain percentage of them them lose more than just their career,\" [Niall Quinn] told AAP. Quinn met Crossing The Line's Gearoid Towey, an Irish Olympic rower who's now employed by Western Sydney Wanderers as a player development advisor, and sports psychologist Gayelene Clews, a former international triathlete who works with the Australian Olympic team, in Dublin last week. \"Gayelene has written a book called Wired To Play and it tells us that elite sports stars produce different electrodes and chemicals that allow them to strive to be the best,\" Quinn said.

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\"Hull KR are a tough team to face, especially when they're at home,\" he said. \"I played against James (Webster, Hull KR new interim coach) when he played for Rovers and I played for Widnes, and from my memory, it's a tough place to go.\" Hull KR will be out to impress coach Webster after capitulating to Huddersfield last weekend. SALFORD: [Justin Carney], Michael Dobson, Niall Evalds, Mark Flanagan, Carl Forster, George Griffin, Josh Griffin, Greg Johnson, Josh Jones, Phil Joseph, Craig Kopczak, Ryan Lannon, Tommy Lee (C), Ben Murdoch, Gareth O'Brien, Matt Sarsfield, Junior Sau, Logan Tomkins, Adam Walne.

  [Ian Brennan] said he understood the media hype around Orb -- his brother's horse -- preceding the Preakness. He understood the Orb headlines, the Orb chatter, the media interviews with the team around Orb. \"They made Orb out to be a superstar,\" Ian said after the Preakness. \"They forgot about the other horses. It was all about Orb.\" Asked which of the two is the better horseman for a young horse to start his racing career, [Niall Brennan] said, \"You couldn't do any better (than Ian) ... But I would love to see Orb win.\"

\"I don't think he was comfortable where he was ... on the inside,\" Niall Brennan said of Orb. \"He didn't get into his normal rhythm. But there are more races down the line.\" \"I don't think two weeks had anything to do with it. Oxbow ran back in two weeks. Itsmyluckyday ran back in two weeks. Mylute ran back in two weeks,\" [Shug McGaughey] said. \"I just think he got himself in a position where he wasn't comfortable ...\" \"But with [Ian Brennan] winning, we kept it in the family,\" Niall Brennan said. \"And if either (Orb or Oxbow) wins the Belmont, we'll have our own Triple Crown.\"