Sarah Keane was elected president of the Olympic Council of Ireland at last night’s extraordinary general meeting in Dublin’s Conrad Hotel. Keane, Swim Ireland CEO and OCI executive member for the past two years, beat Willie O’Brien, acting president since Pat Hickey stepped aside last August, and Bernard O’Byrne, CEO of Basketball Ireland. Although for […]
Aine O’Farrell of Presentation College Athenry and Gary Martyn of Galway Community College were the winners of the senior titles at the Connacht Schools Cross-Country Championships held in Calry, Sligo today. Both were leading their schools to team victory. Keelan Kilrehill of Colaiste Iascaigh won the inter boys title, while Saoirse O’Brien of Sacred Heart […]
Mick Clohisey, representing Irish champions Raheny Shamrock, finished 10th in the senior men’s race at the European Clubs Cross-Country Championships in Albufeira, Portugal today. Clohisey, cheered on by a large group of supporters, clocked a time of 30 mins 40 secs for the twisty, sandy 9.7km course, putting him 37 seconds behind the winner Yemaneberhan […]
Dublin City Harriers and Clonliffe Harriers were the winners at the Irish Life Health National Indoor League final in Abbotstown today. Catherine McManus proved key to the DCH success in the women’s competition, winning the 60m hurdles in 8.43 secs and the long jump with a 5.23m effort. Other winners for the Cabra-based club were […]
A thrilling finish to the Axa Raheny 5 saw Mark Christie of Mullingar Harriers outsprinting defending champion and home favourite Mick Clohisey for victory. Christie and defending champion and home favourite Mick Clohisey pulled away from the field at two miles, and when it came to the final push, Christie had that little extra. He […]
Fearghal Curtin, Darragh McElhinney and Stephanie Cotter, who all who ran in Cardiff at last Sunday’s Celtic International, were impressive winners at the South Munster Schools Cross-Country Championships in Cork. For Stephanie Cotter, her victory in the senior girls’ race was a nice 18th birthday present. Brian Fay of Belvedere ran a confident race to […]
Blackrock’s Sarah Healy and Darragh McElhinney of Bantry made it an Irish U17 double at the Celtic International Cross-Country in Cardiff today. Youghal’s Jake McCarthy finished second in the M17 race. Winning the M20 race was Fearghal Curtin of Youghal. Amy Rose Farrell of Blackrock was second W20; both Irish U20 teams came out on […]
Noel Henry, a tireless promoter of distance running, finally left us last week after a long and brave battle with debilitating illness. In his young days, Noel was an an Irish marathon champion, a staunch member of Clonliffe Harriers and a huge supporter of women’s athletics; he would later write a short history of Irish […]
Newly crowned Dublin masters cross-country champion John Dunne of Raheny Shamrock added the Leinster title to his collection in Dunboyne today. Winning the women’s title was Tullamore’s Pauline Curley. The top three in the men’s race were resuming battle after the Dublin Championships only a week earlier in St Anne’s Park, when Shane O’Neil of […]
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