The image that Mick Rice hoped would never see the light of day has been exclusively published on the Athenry AC web site this afternoon.

Mick Rice has gone native and this is the proof - wearing his very special race director's hat(!) on the morning of the recent Fields of Athenry 10KM Road Race.

For a former city slicker to be caught in a cart carrying a pile of bales will be the ultimate blow to his very carefully constructed city-slicker image.

It will take a few more years before he'll starting speaking like an East Galway native but it will happen, mark my words.

More native than the natives themselves...

Mick Rice Gone Native