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Round-Up: Heaslip, Christie Take National Titles, McCormack Reigns in Spain, Thornton Wins in Antarctic

Shona Heaslip provided the story of the day when she won the women’s 8km race at the Irish Life Health National Cross-Country Championships on the recently-launched National Cross-Country course at Abbotstown. With Kilcoole’s Fionnuala McCormack running in Spain, Lizzie Lee of Leevale taking a break and Caroline Crowley of Crusaders injured, the women’s race was […]

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Colleges: Historic Relays Double for UL. No Joy at NCAAs

UL broke the DCU and UCD domination of the Irish Universities Road Relays hosted by NUI Maynooth winning both the men and women’s titles. In the women’s race, Katherine O’Keeffe got the Limerick students off to a great start  coming home first with a time of 6 mins 5 secs for the opening mile. On […]

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Sunday Round-Up: Fionnuala McCormack 5th in Spain. Christie, Cleary win Leinster titles

Fionnuala McCormack of Kilcoole finished fifth at the Cross Internacional de Atapuerca in Burgos, Spain. Over the 8km course, McCormack finished just 48 seconds behind the race winner Senbere Teferi of Ethiopia who clocked a time of 24mins 45 secs with McCormack 48 seconds behind. Newcastle’s Kerry O’Flaherty was 24th in 27.21, Anne Marie McGlynn […]

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Round-Up: 11th title for Carmel Parnell. Gold also for Michael Harty and M35, M45, M60, W60 teams (updated again)

Carmel Parnell of Leevale finished first W60 at the British and Irish Masters Cross-Country International in Tollcross Park,Glasgow, this morning. It was a record eleventh title for Carmel, who was also leading the W60 team to victory. Second place went to Christine Kennedy, who is back living in London after a long sojourn in the […]

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Record five medals for Cathy McCourt at World Masters

Belfast athlete Cathy McCourt proved the star of the 18-strong Irish team at the World Masters Athletics Championships in Perth, Australia. McCourt began her campaign on the opening day of the 10-day competition when she finished second in the W40 cross-country. She also helped the Irish team to silver, backed up by Dubliner Sue Zlnay, […]

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Clohisey and Mageean take Dublin Cross-Country titles

On a bitterly cold day at Santry, Mick Clohisey of Raheny Shamrock and UCD’s Ciara Mageean won the senior titles at the Dublin Cross-County Championships. Mageean raced away from defending champion Caroline Crowley of Crusaders on the final lap of the women’s race. A surprise third was Barbara Cleary of Donore, who finished ahead of […]

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Tulu, Johannes win Dublin Marathon. Monahan clocks 1:39. Ciobanu, Graham take national titles. Results round-up.

Dereje Debele Tulu of Ethiopia and previous winner Helalia Johannes from Namibia were the winners of today’s  SSE Airtricity Dublin Marathon. Times were not fast although conditions were perfect – not too hot and no wind or rain. In a men’s race where Ethiopians made a clean sweep of the top three, Tulu took an […]

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School Sport: Entry for PExpo ’17 opens next week

Entry open next week for the third annual PExpo which will take place in Trinity Comprehensive  Ballymun, Dublin, on Wednesday March 8, 2017. The purpose of PExpo is to encourage young people not only to take part in sport but to undertake research into different aspects of sport, fitness and physical activity. Students in junior […]

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World Masters: Silver for Cathy McCourt in Perth (ongoing results)

Cathy McCourt took Ireland’s first medal when she finished second in the W40 cross-country at the World Masters Athletics Championships in Perth Australia yesterday. McCourt completed the 8km course in 30 mins 49.52, putting her second overall behind Australia’s Belinda Martin who finished in 29:18.03. McCourt is in top form after winning the NI Masters […]

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Clonliffe Clean up in Longwood. Pollock 4th at Great South 10-Mile

Gary O’Hanlon and Ian Guiden made it a Clonliffe double at the Longwood 10k/5k in Co Meath today. O’Hanlon, who runs in next Sunday’s SSE Airtricity Dublin Marathon, won the 10k, beating Raheny’s Cillian O’Leary and Brian McCluskey  of North East Runners.  In the 5km, Guiden was a clear winner ahead of  Mullingar’s Andrew Nevin. […]

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