John N. McDonnell was an Irish playwright and journalist who was more commonly known as John McDonnell.
McDonnell worked as a television critic on the The Sunday Press. As a playwright his work is most closely associated with the Ulster Group Theatre, Belfast, where he wrote a string of successful comedy plays in the 1960s and 1970s in association with the actor and comedian James Young.
Life and career
McDonnell was born in Kilsaran, Co. Louth. McDonnell, and his wife Patti, lived in Dublin where he worked as a journalist and playwright.
In 1961 McDonnell wrote All the King's Horses, which was performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. The story is a farcial one in which an eccentric Irish woman dies and leaves her forture to her two nephews. One is a Southern IrishRepublican and the other is a Northern Irish Orangeman. To inherit the fortune they must spend a month in the cottage in peace.
The play came to the attention of Belfast based actor James Young, who contacted the author with a view to performing the play at the Ulster Group Theatre. As had been his practice with his former writer Sam Cree, Young felt that the play would need reworked for a Belfast audience. Young was quoted as saying about McDonnell that he had "no arty airs about him and, being a journalist, set about the changes I suggested in a most realistic fashion". McDonnell's rewrites would remove some of the more serious aspects of the play and introduced a new character.
John McDonnell (born July 2, 1938) is the retired head coach for the University of ArkansasRazorbackstrack team. He began as the cross country and track head coach for the University in 1972 and became head track coach in 1978. McDonnell retired after the 2008 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Early life
McDonnell earned his bachelor's degree from Southwestern Louisiana (now Louisiana-Lafayette) in 1969, while competing to become a six-time all-American in track and cross country at USL, become the 1966-67 AAU 3,000-meter champion, and won the mile at the 1966 British Selection Games.
McDonnell was hired as the cross country coach in 1972 and added the entire men's track and field program in 1978.
Coach McDonnell led the track team to their first national championship at the 1985 NCAA Indoor Championships while the school was a member of the now-defunct Southwest Conference. Since then, the University of Arkansas has won 40 NCAA championships, including 11 cross country, 19 indoor track and 10 outdoor track. Other schools have won only 24 combined NCAA titles in the three sports during the same period.
"I was thrilled. It hadn't crossed my mind that it would happen. ... It's a great honor."
"Keeping that fire going is like chemistry. As the year goes on and you see your team start to gel, there?s like an air or halo that tells you this team is special. Each year, that feeling keeps you going."
"We had some young guys with their backs against the wall. We got a bad call that never should have happened. They were not going to let someone come in here and steal the national championship, which is what the referee tried to do. We had several guys perform above what was expected and they showed a lot of heart."
"The two-mile was stacked with a lot of great runners. It was similar to the 1,000 in that it didn't start on a very good pace either. They went out a little too fast. Mottram is a great runner and Alistair and Daniel were right there in the hunt until the end. Alistair has had a lot of success in Boston and I think they were watching for him tonight."
"The first three meets were kind of lonesome. Nobody wanted to stand up and be counted. They were all running and jumping in quicksand, like zombies out there. No fire whatsoever. There are signs now that if we stay healthy, we'll be a pretty good team."
"Conference wasn't looking very good. Now this should certify some guys who haven't done a lot. They are going to say, 'Wow, it's time for me to bring my dime into the cause."
"It was our distances and jumps today and they put on a show. The jumpers did great and the middle distance and the distance runners really were on pace. We had a lot of guys raise their performances and that is what you have to have to win a championship."
"I was proud of the way Adam ran in the mile. I think he could have gotten an even better time if the pace would've been a little faster. He is a guy that has some NCAA experience in the 3,000 and that will help us."
"We got what we wanted out of the weekend. I was happy with what happened in Ames. We now have the guys in the meet to make a run at the national championship."
"Kenya has a lot of great runners. Being a world-class runner is the thing to do over there. It's like hitting home runs or wanting to be a great baseball player. Being a great distance runner is everybody's dream there."
"Bad Sisters" star Owen McDonnell is having a great 2024 playing the most terrible men on TV ... McDonnell was a 'True Detective' killer who got cold in 'NightCountry' ... "Ian is actually more despicable than JohnPaul," says McDonnell.
“It was in our manifesto in 2019 but we all know what happened in that general election, and you’ll remember as well at that general election Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell said that you would fund it from the reserve,” the chancellor said ... ... Share ... .
But this lot had no plan.' ... They included John McDonnell, who had served as shadow chancellor under Sir Keir's Labour predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, and ex-leadership candidate rival Rebecca Long-Bailey - a former flatmate of now-Deputy PM Angela Rayner ... .
20, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ...The House approved Johnson's new bill overwhelmingly, 366-34. The Senate worked into the night to pass it, 85-11, just after the deadline ... 20, 2024 ... Rep ... (AP Photo/John McDonnell) Rep ... (AP Photo/John McDonnell) Rep ... .
However, the move prompted backlash from the Prime Minister’s own party as John McDonnell, the former shadow chancellor, said it showed that Sir Keir had “lost all sense of political judgement”.
19, 2024. The vote failed to pass. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ...The bill was approved 366-34, and now goes to the Senate, for expected quick passage ... Rep ... (AP Photo/John McDonnell) Rep ... (AP Photo/John McDonnell) Rep ... (AP Photo/John McDonnell) Rep ... .
The foreign secretary, David Lammy, said Mandelson had “a wealth of experience in trade, economic and foreign policy from his years in government and the private sector” ... They said ... One said ... The former shadow chancellor John McDonnell said on X ... .
‘For many reasons associated with Peter Mandelson’s history in and out of political office, many people will feel Keir has lost all sense of political judgment on this decision,’ raged Corbynite former Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell ... .
By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and MATT BROWN. The Associated Press... The clock is now racing toward the midnight deadline to fund government operations ... The federal debt limit expires Jan ... 19, 2024. The vote failed to pass ... Rep ... (AP Photo/John McDonnell) ... .
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