Daniel was one of the 79 delegates who attended the Congress of the Sorbonne in Paris in 1894 that lit the flame of the Olympic Games of the Modern Era in Athens in 1896.
On 1 August 1887, he set the Irish Native Record for 100 yards of 10.2 seconds at the GAA Championships held at the County Kerry Athletic Club Grounds, Tralee.
He held this record, jointly with Norman D. Morgan [1896], Denis Murray [1904], and James P. Roche [1907], until Frederick R. Shaw (Dublin University Athletic Club) clocked 10.0 seconds in Belfast on 20 July 1913.
As Vice-President of the I.A.A.A., he was one of the Irish delegates to the Congress of the Sorbonne in 1894, organised by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, resulting in the foundation of the modern Olympic Games in 1896.
[6] He married his first wife Maria Frances Daly on 18 January 1893 at St. Francis Xavier Church on Upper Gardiner Street in Dublin.