UCD’s Ciara Everard clocked 2:04.86 to finish second in the women’s A and the BMC Meet in Watford; a BMC personal best. Everard picked up a niggling injury when in Rome last month and has only returned to racing. Earlier this year, she ran 2:02.54 indoors. Michael Mulhare of Portlaoise moved closer to the 14 […]
Maria McCambridge of DSD and the Marathon Mission put her third place in the Flora Women’s Mini Marathon well behind her when she won the Irish Runner 5-Mile in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. McCambridge’s time of 26 mins 45 secs was not particularly fast but she still won the race comfortably ahead of Siobhan O’Doherty of […]
Clonliffe’s Brian Gregan ran a time of 45.55 secs to finish 4th in top-class 400m in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Despite running from the seventh lane on a particularly cold night, Gregan’s time was just two-hundreds of a second off the personal best 45.53 he ran two weeks ago in Spain. * At the Dublin Graded […]
At last – the Dublin Marathon has a new sponsor! After one year without any named sponsor, the Airtricity energy company will sponsor not only this year’s Dublin Marathon, but also the Dublin Marathon Race Series, which starts with the Irish Runner 5-Mile this coming Saturday June 29 in the Phoenix Park (10am). Last year, […]
Ben Reynolds has run World Championships A mark of 13.49 secs for the 110m hurdles at the Mary Peters Track Opening Invitational in Belfast easily beating Julian Ortiz Morena of Spain, who ran 14.02. Reynold’s time is just 0.19 off Peter Coghlan’s Irish record. In a Northern Ireland double, Lisburn’s Amy Foster won the women’s […]
Two relay victories for the young Irish team brought the second day of European Athletics Team Championships to a rousing close at Santry. First up were the women, with Jessie Barr pulling away for victory in the B race after solid work by Sinead Denny, Jennifer Carey and Shauna Cannon in the third fastest time […]
Mark Kenneally of Clonliffe and Leevale’s Lizzie Lee set the roads on fire at the annual Dunshaughlin 10km. Kenneally showed that he is right back in form when he led home almost 700 finishers in a time of 29 mins 46 secs. That time put his well clear of the chasers, led by Freddy Keron […]
After the opening day of competition in Santry, the young Irish team lies sixth on the table at the European Athletics Team Championships 1st League on a day dominated by the Czech Republic and by the spectacularly varied weather. Zuzana Hejnova led the way for the Czechs when she won the flat 400m instead […]
Mark Christie, who has taken a break from racing in recent months, broke the half hour on his winning comeback at the Docklands 10km. Christie’s time of 29.59 put him a minute clear of Bantry’s Alan O’Shea with Freddy Keron Sittuk a close third. Raheny’s Kate Cronin was first woman in 35.59. Rathfarnham’s Paul Stephenson […]
Derval O’Rourke is the latest withdrawal from the Irish team for the European Team Championships this weekend. She has a lingering chest infection. Replacing her in the 100m hurdles is young pretender Sarah Lavin of Emerald who ran 13.45 secs to break O’Rourke’s Irish junior record in Geneva earlier this month. Other withdrawals through illness […]
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