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Shame be nailed his colours to an Irish mast, something to do with not liking the set up at BC wasn't it?
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The BC road programme at the time was virtually non-existent, so if Martin had wanted to join the BC academy he'd had to have focused on the track. He chose not to, and took out an Irish license instead, which he could do as his mum is Irish.
I think a lot of people want to make more of it than it probably warrants, as they have an axe to grind on the BC focus on track riding.
andyp
His mum is Irish, Stephen Roche's sister in fact, his dad, Neil Martin, is British and was a decent rider in his day.