Vulture funds: while these latter-day Scrooges make the lives of over-reaching speculators a misery, they stay at one remove from ordinary folk. Or so you might think. Imagine this scenario: you are a sports club and want to lay down a new pitch or track; or maybe build a club house for the use of […]
Emma Mitchell finished seventh in the women’s 5000m at the World University Games in Taipei today. Her time of 16:00.02 put her less than 15 seconds behind the winner Hanna Klein of Germany who finished in 15:45.28. Shona Heaslip ran a personal best time of 16:09.62 to finish 11th. Only Irish athlete left is Matt Bergin […]
Clonliffe Harriers comfortably retained their Irish Life Health men’s premier league title on a wet day in Tullamore. In the women’s premier division, DSD ‘s six year winning streak was ended by St Abban’s. Not even a super victory in the 4 x 400m could pull it back for DSD who had four wins compared […]
Laura Graham, the national marathon champion, came home first overall at the Dambusters Half Marathon in Co Down yesterday. It means she joins that exclusive club of women who have won races outright, beating all the men as well as the women. On the tough, hilly course, which started from the Silent Valley in the […]
Clonliffe’s Brian Gregan is listed for the 400m at tomorrow’s Birmingham Diamond League meet, which means he will miss the Irish Life Health National League final in Tullamore. Gregan, after running a lifetime best of 45.26 secs earlier this season, is the third fastest entry in the race, which is not part of the Diamond […]
A few random thoughts on London 2017 – the World Athletics Championships 1 Ten days is too long – what was wrong with a five or even seven day schedule with heats and qualification round taking place during the day? 2 Four hours every evening on the BBC was way too much. WAY too much! […]
Raheny’s Kevin Dooney and Gladys Ganiel of North Belfast Harriers were the winners of the national marathon titles in a race run in conjunction with the American Rock ‘n’ Roll franchise. Dooney came home ahead of Clonliffe’s Sergiu Ciobanu, pulling away for victory in 66 mins 05 secs, with Tomas Fitzpatrick third and Sligo’s Emmett […]
By John Walshe Clonmel native David Mansfield, running for Clonliffe Harriers, won the annual GR8KM race over the rarely-run 8km distance (4.97 miles) at Mitchelstown in a fine time of 24:54. Second in this year’s Cork City Marathon in 2:29:20, Mansfield is now building up to Dublin in October where he recorded 2:27:34 for 15th […]
John Coghlan of MSB continued his current winning streak when he came home first in today’s Bay 10km held in sunny conditions in Dun Laoghaire. On the hilly course, Coghlan recorded a time of 30 mins 50 secs, beating last year’s champion Freddy Sittuk of Raheny into second place. For Sittuk, who is training for […]
Freddy Sittuk of Raheny and Ciara Hickey from Bros Pearse made it a Dublin double at the Michael Fearon /Kevin Marron 5km, organised by Glenmore AC from their headquarters on the Cooley Peninsula in Co Louth on Friday evening. Sittuk outlasted Ben Branagh of St Malachy’s in the chase for the line to win in […]
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