Home team Raheny Shamrock won the men’s senior title in a new record time at the Glo Health National Road Relays. First off for the team was Mark Kirwan who clocked a time of 9 mins 27 secs for the opening two-mile leg. He handed over to Kieran Kelly who ran 4 mins 22 secs […]
Marcus Lawler of IT Carlow produced one of the performances of the weekend at the Irish Universities Track and Field Championships at Santry when he smashed the colleges record to win the men’s 200m in 20.98 secs. In the battle for second place, Kieran Elliott of UL edged out Christopher Sibanda of Limerick IT. Lawler […]
Loreto Kilkenny made it an eighth consecutive win at the Loreto Schools Track and Field Championships held in Santry today. Big points scorer for Kilkenny was Ciara Deely winner of the senior 80m hurdles and 2nd in the high jump and anchor woman of the winning 4 x 100m team. All the first year members […]
Mark Hanrahan of Leevale led home a large Irish contingent at today’s Rotterdam Marathon. Hanrahan’s time of 2:19.52 saw him finishing 34th. He went through half way in 68 mins 28 secs and slowed down after the 30km mark. Finishing 39th in 2:21.47 was Eoin Callaghan of Star of the Sea. Tallaght’s Tomas Fitzpatrick was […]
DSD’s Anita White threw a season’s best of 51.37m to win the women’s javelin today’s Spring Throws meet in a chilly Santry today. White’s target is the European Championships qualifying mark of 57.50m. Cushinstown’s Shane Joyce won the senior men’s 800g javelin with a best of 53.62m while junior Garreth Crawford of Lifford Strabane threw the […]
Donore’s Ann Woodlock – the oldest woman in the field at 77 – has won the W75 1500m at the European Masters Indoor Championships in Ancona, Italy. Woodlock dominated the race from early on, crossing the line in 7 mins 31.28 secs. A distant second was Britain’s Eva Osborne in 7:45.59. Earlier this week, Woodlock […]
Fionnuala McCormack of Kilcoole ran a Rio 16 qualifying time of 32 mins 05.08 secs to finish 5th in the 10,000m at the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, California. Winner of the race was Laura Thweatt of Boulder Track in 31:52.94; there were 28 finishers. McCormack has also a qualifying mark for the Rio marathon, […]
Santry Stadium witnessed a new Irish track record last night when Sergiu Ciobanu of Clonliffe Harriers ran a time of 24 mins 14.8 seconds to win the Frank White 5 Mile – a rare track five mile race. Ciobanu was breaking the 70 year record of 24:22.4.set by set by Martin Egan of Shanaglish, Gort, […]
Paul Pollock finished 14th in the World Half Marathon Championships in Cardiff. Despite the windy, wet conditions, Pollock clocked an excellent time of 62 mins 46 secs and was second European. Kenya’s Geoffrey Kamworor, the defending champion, won the race in 59:10, with Britain’s Mo Farah third in 59:59. Pollock ‘s time showed that he […]
Lady Icarus – new edition
Want to Explore Herbert Simms’ Dublin?
Simms book – launch November 7
“Lady Icarus” – sold out! As are the Markievicz books!
Cork – “the most comfortable jail”
Keith S: Excellen blog , thanks for the effort/info here.Be...
LindieNaughton: Have corrected in the copy....
Anonymous: Barbara Sanchez coach is Sebastian Lochteau now...
Anonymous: I knew Joe through his being part of the Cabra Lio...
Anonymous: I knew Joe through his being part of the Cabra Lio...
