Awful news from Boston; the explosions seem to have happened after the four-hour mark. A total of 108 Irish had registered to run and most came home in under four hours, so would have been on their way back to their hotels when the explosions happened. One who witnessed the explosion was Dubliner Gerry Carr, representing […]
News not great from the Rotterdam Marathon: Brian Maher, Maria McCambridge, and Ailish Malone all dropped out. First Irish finisher was Tom Hogan of SBR in 2 hrs 28 mins 38 secs, with Raheny’s Barbara Sanchez ninth overall and best of the Irish women. In the Phoenix Park, Linda Byrne of DSD won the Woodie’s […]
David Hynes of Waterford IT just beat DCU’s Steven Colvert to win the men’s 100m at the second day of the Irish University Athletics Championships on the new Sonia O’Sullivan track at the Mardyke, Cork. Both men were timed at 10.66 seconds. In third place was QUB’s Jonathan Browning with a time of 10.85.Stephanie Creaner […]
Gary Thornton from Galway, who first ran for Ireland as a junior mountain runner, has won the North Pole Marathon in minus 30 degree conditions. Thornton, whose marathon best is 2 hrs 17 mins, finished in 3 hrs 49 mins 29 secs. The race, with 46 runners from 20 nations starting, took place around 20 […]
Brian Maher and Maria McCambridge lead a Marathon Mission squad at Sunday’s Rotterdam Marathon – the start of a hectic period of spring marathons in big cities all over the world. Also competing in Rotterdam are Joe McAllister in the men’s race along with a trio of women – Ailish Malone of Clonliffe, the only […]
A record 100 teams from 20 schools competed in yesterday’s West Leinster Schools Medley Relays held in Santry. Girls – Minor: 1 Holy Family CC, 2 St Peter’s Dunboyne, 3 Castleknock College. Junior: 1 St Joseph’s College, 2 St Louis HS, 3 St Joseph’s College. Inter: 1 St MacDara’s, 2 Mount Sackville, 3 Holy Family […]
Dermot McDermott On a day packed with hard racing, Sligo Athletic Club, anchored by Dermot McDermott, took their first ever men’s national senior relay title, just beating Raheny Shamrock to the line. McDermott and Raheny’s Cillian O’Leary had set off together on the final leg, with McDemrott only breaking away with the line in sight. […]
Some great running at the Dublin City Council Road Races in St Anne’s Park, Raheny today. Brian Maher was in a class of his own in the open 4-mile race with his time of 19 mins 6 secs putting him well over a minutes clear of the chasers led by Bernard Roe. In sixth […]
Inishowen’s Dan Doherty has won the Anglo Celtic Plate 100km held in Perth, Scotland. Doherty’s time of 7 hrs 5 mins 32 secs knocked almost two minutes off his previous best and was just 26 seconds off the Irish record of 7:05.06. This was set by Thomas Maguire at the World 100km in 2006. Irish […]
Mark Hanrahan and Laura Crowe were the winners at the Good Friday 5-mile in Killarney. Full result www.precisiontiming.net *Stephen Scullion proved the class of the field at the Queen’s 5km in Belfast, beating Eddie McGinley and Andrew Agnew and setting a new course record time of 14 mins 27 secs. Clare Connor was first woman. […]
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