TREDSTEP Ireland’s Aidan Keogh travelled to Pau last week without his usual grooming team of twin daughters Lilly and Sadie.

“The girls went to Glasgow on a hockey trip with their friends and, as they weren’t coming, Christine (Aidan’s wife) decided that she’d say at home,” said Aidan, who wasn’t, however, left unsupported in France. His long-term mentor William Micklem was on site and, in spite of saying that she probably wouldn’t go to the event, his mother Joan flew out later in the week.