Meready also set up The Jarvey weekly comic paper in January 1889 with William Percy French as its editor.

It was a daring decision for him to compete, but it was justified by his winning all four championships and finishing the season with an unbeaten record.

[4] As the editor of the Dublin Motor News, Mecredy was involved in helping to organise the 1903 Gordon Bennett Cup, the first international motor race to be held in Ireland (an honorific to Selwyn Edge who had won the 1902 event in the Paris-Vienna race driving a Napier).

Local laws had to be adjusted, ergo the 'Light Locomotives (Ireland) Bill' was passed on 27 March 1903, and Kildare was chosen.

[7] In early October 1912 Carl Stearns Clancy, along with his biking partner, Walter Rendell Storey, arrived in Dublin to commence his circumnavigation of the world by motor-cycle.

Clancy continued his circumnavigation of the globe until August 1913, during which he rode 18,000 miles in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America.