Sylane man leads the way at baku games

FROM Belclare to Baku, the director of operations of the first ever European Games in Azerbaijan is off to a flying start as the two week event got underway at the weekend.
Neil Carney from Sylane, Tuam, is operations director of the event which has welcomed 6,000 athletes from 50 countries to the former Eastern Bloc country. A spectacular opening ceremony last Friday evening marked the culmination of two years’ preparation for Neil, who left Ireland in 2013 with his wife Celia and five young children to take up the post.