SIBLING RIVALRY
From the earliest times, chieftains would arrange races among their clansmen to find the fastest man available for carrying messages in times of emergency. In the wild and mountainous Highlands, where no roads existed and the peat bogs, boulders and debris were likely to slow down or cripple even the most sure-footed horse, the quickest means of communication by far was a man running across country.
The ‘crann tara’, or fiery
