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Mon 07 Jul 2007Gillick and O'Rourke left cursing their luckAthletics/ Cork City Sports: It's not often athletics reportage requires some censorship, but the first words out of David Gillick and Derval O'Rourke at Saturday's Cork City Sports had to be cut. Hardly surprising given the two headline acts at the event had costly disagreements with the starter's gun.So after three consecutive Irish victories on the track, a false start for Gillick, a dodgy start for O'Rourke, and in the end another wind-ruined record for Paul Hession left a certain amount of anti-climax in the Mardyke air.