general principle won the irish grand national this year.
who won the irish grand national this year?
general principle
bullet::::- roger o'connor - irish nationalist and writer who occupied dangan after the wellesley family left.





















































bullet::::- feargus o'connor, son of roger and leading chartist, brought up in dangan





















































bullet::::- ambrose o'higgins, 1st marquis of osorno, viceroy of peru, grew up in summerhill having moved there as an infant in 1721.





















































bullet::::- francisco burdett o'connor, son of roger who became a bolivian general and politician, brought up in dangan





















































bullet::::- gordon elliot - trainer of 2016 cheltenham gold cup winner, don cossack, 2018 and 2019 aintree grand national winner, tiger roll, and 2018 irish grand national winner, general principle.





















































section::::sport.
summerhill, county meath
the 1990s started brightly for the mouse morris yard when trapper john ridden by jockey charlie swan won the stayers' hurdle at the 1990 cheltenham festival. the following year cahervillahow was beaten by a short head in the irish grand national and merely three weeks later in the whitbread gold cup he was controversially judged to have interfered with runner-up docklands express in the closing stages. as a result, docklands express was awarded the race. he finished second in the 1993 grand national which was voided after a false start. morris trained his song who was one of the best novice hurdlers of the period. his song finished second behind the j. p. mcmanus owned istabraq in the 1998 aig irish champion hurdle on his fourth race outing before again finishing second in the supreme novice hurdle at leopardstown. one of morris's most important wins as a trainer came in 2006 when he sent out the seven-year-old gelding war of attrition to win the 2006 cheltenham gold cup, beating another irish challenger hedgehunter on saint patrick's day. in 2008, he trained hear the echo to victory in the irish grand national. in 2011, he trained the winner of the grade 1 neptune investment management novices' hurdle at cheltenham, first lieutenant, ridden by davy russell. in 2016, he won the irish grand national again this time with rogue angel. also in 2016, he won the grand national for the first time with rule the world.
mouse morris