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Round-up: Freddy Sittuk wins Limerick Marathon. Fitzpatrick tops at Tallaght 5km (updated)

Freddy Keron Sittuk, back in his Raheny stronghold for the past fortnight,  had a comfortable victory in the Barrington Hospital Great Limerick Marathon today.  In the early stages of the race, Sittuk and last year’s winner Martin Doody from Limerick AC ran together with both given a time of 34 mins 55 for 10km. By […]

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Coghlan wins 131st Clonliffe ‘2’. Kilkenny top Loreto school

MSB’s John Coghlan held off the host club’s Ian Guiden to win the 126th Clonliffe “2”,  the oldest road race in Ireland and possibly the world. Coghlan tucked in behind Guiden for much of the two-mile before  leading the lead and coming home in 9 mins 15  secs with Guiden second in 9:23 and Donore’s […]

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Treble gold for Mary Barrett at World Masters Games

Pentathlete Mary Barrett from Loughrea has won three gold medals at the World Masters Games in Auckland, New Zealand. Barrett won the W55 80m hurdles with a time of 15.13 secs, the high jump with 1.26 and the shot with 10.53m. She also finished fourth in the discus with 24.19m and the javelin with 21.29m, […]

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John Fulham is new president of Paralympics Ireland

Four times Paralympian John Fulham was last night elected unopposed as the next president of Paralympics Ireland succeeding Jimmy Gradwell who had served two terms spanning eight years. Fulham, a wheelchair racer,  competed successfully for Ireland at four Paralympic Games from Barcelona 1992  in the 100m and 200m,  also taking European titles over these distances. […]

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Schools: Fast runs in sleety Santry!

Mark Smyth and Michael Farrelly made it a sprint double for St Fintan’s Sutton at the opening day of the North Leinster Schools Track and Field Championships held in freezing cold conditions at Santry today. Smyth won the senior boys’ title in some style, beating Luke Redmond from Ashbourne College, who later had an impressive […]

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Pollock, McCormack to lead Irish marathon team at Worlds. Team announced for World 24-Hour

Paul Pollock  of Annadale Striders and  Kilcoole’s Fionnuala McCormack  will lead a team of five Irish marathon runnes at the World Athletics Championships in London next August 4-13. Also selected are Raheny’s Mick Clohisey, Sean Hehir  of Rathfarnham  and Leevale’s Claire McCarthy. Robert Heffernan  of Togher  will compete in the 50km walk along with  Letterkenny’s […]

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UCD women take relay title after Queen’s disqualified (updated)

UCD have been awarded the National Road Relays women’s title after Queen’s, who narrowly beat them last Sunday in Raheny, were disqualified. The Belfast team  had included an athlete on their team who was not a “first claim” member of  QUB AC; unfortunately, rules for college athletes differ in the various third level institutions. DCU, […]

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Round-Up: PB of 2:16.18 for Sean Hehir in London (plus roads results)

Rathfarnham’s Sean Hehir finished best of the Irish in a personal best time of 2 hrs 16 mins 18 secs – comfortably inside the qualifying mark for the World Championships later this year. Behind him, Kevin Seaward  of St Malachy’s finished in 2:17:08, England-based Stephen Scullion on  2:17:59 and Raheny’s Mick Clohisey in 2:18:34. Hehir […]

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Weekend preview: Clohisey leads Irish entry at London Marathon (updated)

Raheny’s Mick Clohisey leads the Irish entry at Sunday’s London Marathon with a sub 2 hour 15 minute time his target. Cardiff-based Kevin Seaward of St Malachy’s, who like Clohisey ran the marathon at the Rio Olympics, will also run and is in good shape after a a time of 65 mins 38 secs at […]

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Round-Up: Stephenson wins Battle of Clontarf. Plus Easter results (ongoing)

Rathfarnham’s Paul Stephenson was an impressive winner of the Battle of Clontarf 10-Mile, incorporating the Leinster Championships, held in St Anne’s Park, Raheny this morning. Stephenson was pushed all the way by Raheny’s Mark Kirwan and the result was a personal best time of 52 mins 8 secs. Kirwan finished second in 52:19 with Belfast […]

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