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Conal McNamara

Irish para athletics competitor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ5158076 ↗
Source-derived summary

Conal McNamara is a paralympic athlete from Ireland competing mainly in category T13 sprint events.

Conal competed in the 200m and 400m for class T13 athletes in the 2004 Summer Paralympics winning the silver in the longer sprint.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Conal McNamara” as irish para athletics competitor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901. The account is most persuasive where Conal, McNamara and Irish can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as irish para athletics competitor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5158076. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Conal McNamara” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.