Buy 20 tickets but pay for only ten – that’s the special offer to clubs from the organisers of the Morton Games taking place in Santry on Wednesday July 12. All clubs have to do is sent €100 to the Morton Games Ticket Office at Clonliffe Harriers, Morton Stadium, Santry, Dublin 9 and they will […]
Cillian O’Leary and Laura Shaughnessy were the winners of the 40th anniversary RTE 5-Mile held in bitterly cold conditions around the roads of Donnybrook. First held in 1977, when the race started on Beaver Row and took in a loop of Clonskeagh and Goatstown before returning to Donnybrook, the route has changed many times, due […]
Kate O’Connor of St Gerard’s in Dundalk won the senior girls heptathlon at the annual Somerset Schools AA/County AA and Open Combined Events Championships hosted by Millfield School in Street, England last weekend. Competing in her first seven-event competition, O’Connor aged 16, picked up 802 points for her time of 15.30 secs in the 100m […]
Ultra runner Eoin Keith has completed his run from Mizen Head in Kerry to Malin Head in Donegal in a time of 75 hours 47 minutes – or 3 days 3 hours 47 minutes. That knocks an incredible 11 hours 49 minutes off the time of 3 days 15 hours 36 minutes set by English […]
Irish national marathon champion Laura Graham of Mourne Runners has won the Belfast Marathon – a home victory for the first time in 19 years. Graham, supported enthusiastically all around the course, also repeated her feat of last year by running the London and then Belfast Marathons with only seven days rest in between. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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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