HARD luck stories and Irish sport have often crossed each others paths.
Thierry Henry’s handball in Paris, Harry Bradshaw’s ball landing in a beer bottle at Royal St George's or the Louth footballers in the 2010 Leinster Final.
But perhaps the cruelest of them all happened this week 30 years ago at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool when little known Wexford jockey John White passed the winning post first on Esha Ness in the infamous 1993 Grand National that never was.
