“BACK to where it all started,” was how MC Richard Pugh opened up the 42nd annual Point-to-Point Awards at the Hotel Minella in Clonmel last Saturday night.

Since 1980 the awards night has been hosted in hotels all over the country but surely the Minella is its spiritual home and, certainly, hotel boss John Nallen and his team could not have done any more to make the event as enjoyable as possible for the 240 guests present.