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New Year’s Day wins for Bermingham and Cleary

Raheny’s Daire Bermingham  and Barbara Cleary of Donore were the winners of the Tom Brennan New Year’s Day 5km in the Phoenix Park today. Bermingham finished in a time of 15 mins 23 secs beating Peter Arthur of host club Liffey Valley  by twelve seconds.  Cleary finished well clear of the chasers in 17 mins  […]

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Fat Turkey win for Mooney

For a second year, DSD’s Killian Mooney won the Fat Turkey 10k in Howth today. Mooney’s time of 33 mins 49 secs saw him finish comfortably clear of fellow mountain running international Ian Conroy of Raheny, who finished in 34:47. Third was Ciaran McCarthy is 35:02. First woman in 41 mins 53 secs was Zoe […]

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Christmas Cracker wins for O’Brien and McCambridge

Organising club Cloniffe made a clean sweep of the top three men’s places at the ERP Christmas Cracker 5k around Santry this morning. First home was Adam O’Brien who led from early in the race and finished in 15 mins 47 secs. His club mates Sean O’Leary and Liam Roarty finished second and third. DSD’s […]

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Fifth win for Clohisey in Fields of Athenry; course record for Shaughnessy

Race favourite Mick Clohisey of Raheny Shamrock lived up to his pre-race billing when he won the Fields of Athenry 10km for a fifth consecutive year earlier today. That equals Gary Thornton’s record of five wins in the race. Clohisey was out on his own for much of the race and finished in an untroubled […]

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McCormack wins Brussels Cross

Fionnuala McCormack made it back-to-back Cross Cup wins when she came home first at the IRIS Cross Cup in Brussels on Sunday. McCormack took contol of the 6km race on the first lap and won emphatically with a time of 19 mins 28 secs. Behind her came home favourite Louise Carton of Belgium and Great […]

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McCormack 5th and O’Leary 6th at “European” Cross-Country. Novice titles for Kehoe and Williamson

A brave effort by Fionnuala McCormack saw her finish fifth in the women’s race at this morning’s  “European” Cross-Country Championships which was dominated by two Africans running for Turkey. In third place and the true European champion was Karolina Grovdal of Norway, who was followed in fourth by Ancuta Bobecel of Romania. The “Plastic Turks” […]

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Round-up: McCauley stars for Irish team at Schools International CE

The Irish team took two individual silver, as well as two team silvers and one team bronze at the annual SIAB Schools Combined Championships held in Athlone for the first time ever to celebrate the centenary of Irish schools athletics. Star of the Irish team was Anna McCauley who scored personal bests in all five […]

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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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