For motorcycle fans, Joey Dunlop is still akin to royalty. At the 50th anniversary of Honda’s arrival at the TT, images of the modest Ulsterman still held pride of place throughout the Isle of Man. In this inspirational book, written in association with the Dunlop family and Honda UK and reissued to mark the tenth anniversary of Joey’s death, Mac McDiarmid charts the life of the passionate road racer who competed for the love of the sport, whether at high-profile races or to promote humbler events such as the Estonian one that claimed his life in July 2000.

The people’s hero with little time for corporate ephemera, who worked on his own machines and liked a pint with his mates after racing. The man of honour who never signed contracts because his handshake was binding. The humanitarian, delivering aid to Albania, Bosnia and Romania – for which he received an OBE, to add to the MBE awarded for his racing. The family man, father of five, running a railway pub in County Antrim. The all-round legend, awarded what amounted to an Irish state funeral, televised live and attended by 50,000 well-wishers including cabinet ministers.

Author Mac McDiarmid, witnessed Dunlop’s first Isle of Man win in 1977, is a former TT racer and renowned writer about motorcycle racing, specialising in the TT. When not sailing in the Mediterranean, he lives in Peel on the Isle of Man.





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We have just returned from visiting Ballymoney, its my home town...we took in the Joey Dunlop Pub and his and Williams memorial Gardens...just reading about them gave us the greatest that these two Dunlop people were....Michael Dunlop we saw at Joey's Bar...but when we went to the memorial Gardens and could stand beside Joey's bike and Joey himself on the bike did we fully understand the greatness of these two people......My husband and I are very proud to say "We are from Ballymoney" where the Dunlop Racing family are from.......

As we live in Dryden Ontario Canada, can anyone tell us what network we would be able to view the TT Race....on....?

Television coverage outside of the UK:-

International

Australia - Network 10

Friday June 4 10.30pm (Sydney); Saturday June 5 9.00pm(Sydney)/all other markets after AFL+MotoGP Qualifying commitments; Sunday June 6 5.30pm; Monday June 7 10.40pm; Tuesday June 8 11.00pm; Wednesday June 9 10.30pm; Thursday June 10 11.00pm; Friday June 11 10.30pm; Saturday June 12 5.00pm; Highlights shows - details TBC.

USA - Discovery networks

Middle East - Abu Dhabi

Ireland - Setanta

Czech Republic - Sport 5

Brazil - ESPN (highlights only) and Record TV (highlights only)


Britain

In Britain, fans will be able to follow all the action on ITV4 with regular highlights programmes throughout the festival.

ITV4 will show an hour-long highlights package every night from Thursday June 3 to Friday June 11.

The programme will start at 9pm each evening, except on June 11 when it will start at 10pm.

ITV4 will also broadcast to hour-long highlights programmes on Sunday June 13, starting at 7pm.

Other TT-related programmes are planned for the festival - check your listings for details.

(31-05-2010, 12:17 AM)patricia Wrote: We have just returned from visiting Ballymoney, its my home town...we took in the Joey Dunlop Pub and his and Williams memorial Gardens...just reading about them gave us the greatest that these two Dunlop people were....Michael Dunlop we saw at Joey's Bar...but when we went to the memorial Gardens and could stand beside Joey's bike and Joey himself on the bike did we fully understand the greatness of these two people......My husband and I are very proud to say "We are from Ballymoney" where the Dunlop Racing family are from.......

As we live in Dryden Ontario Canada, can anyone tell us what network we would be able to view the TT Race....on....?