Donal O'Connell

Donal O'Connell (192826 January 2016), Dublin, Ireland, was an Irish road racing cyclist, and later cycling sport administrator. He set several national records and qualified for the Olympic Games, and served as a race official and administrator for more than 40 years, holding office at club level for more than 30 years, later holding several national roles and then co-founding the Irish Veteran Cycling Association. Along with Ian Gallahar as P.R.O. for several years, all of these served many years in national sport organisation.

O'Connell was a representative of the ICF to the global cycling conference of 1974, and seated on the Olympic Council of Ireland. and cycled competitively at veteran level until 1988, and casually until the 2010s. his funeral was at Greenhills and he was buried at Palmerstown Cemetery.