Kennedy Kane “Ken” McArthur was born in Dervock in Co. Antrim in 1881. It’s said he caught the running bug as a postman, delivering letters and parcels on foot to houses up and down County Antrim.
He would even race against the narrow gauge railway engine that would pass through his town to see how fast he could go!
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