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Wednesday  September 5 Swinford Harvest Series Race  5 Midfield 6km,   7pm. Entry €5. All welcome, tea after. C: Padraic 086 8738691, Michael 086 8196511, Peter 087 9014211. Roscommon 5km Series Rd 3, Taughmaconnell, 7pm. Entry €25 for 4-race series or €10 on night.  T-shirt all who complete three races. C: 087 9690294;  www.roscommon5kseries.com . Cork […]

Wednesday  September 5 Swinford Harvest Series Race  5 Midfield 6km,   7pm. Entry €5. All welcome, tea after. C: Padraic 086 8738691, Michael 086 8196511, Peter 087 9014211. Roscommon 5km Series Rd 3, Taughmaconnell, 7pm. Entry €25 for 4-race series or €10 on night.  T-shirt all who complete three races. C: 087 9690294;  www.roscommon5kseries.com . Cork […]

* Mark Kenneally, running for the Garda team,  won the Grant Thornton Team 5km in Dublin Docklands with a time of 15 mins 18 secs. Catherina McKiernan was first woman. Garda finished first of the men’s team, Leo Pharma were best of the women and A+L Goodbody first mixed.  The event, although organised by Athletics […]

* Mark Kenneally, running for the Garda team,  won the Grant Thornton Team 5km in Dublin Docklands with a time of 15 mins 18 secs. Catherina McKiernan was first woman. Garda finished first of the men’s team, Leo Pharma were best of the women and A+L Goodbody first mixed.  The event, although organised by Athletics […]

COASTAL ROWING: Over a dozen crews have entered next Saturday’s Hobbler’s Challenge to the Kish and back from Dun Laoghaire (1.30) – at 28km the longest rowing race in the country. The race commemorates the Dublin Bay “hobblers” – those skilled boatsmen who, in centuries past, watched out for incoming ships and earned a meagre […]

COASTAL ROWING: Over a dozen crews have entered next Saturday’s Hobbler’s Challenge to the Kish and back from Dun Laoghaire (1.30) – at 28km the longest rowing race in the country. The race commemorates the Dublin Bay “hobblers” – those skilled boatsmen who, in centuries past, watched out for incoming ships and earned a meagre […]

* Our intrepid adaptive rowing crew finished 4th in the repechage at the London Paralympics  and was narrowly beaten for 3rd in the B final. It leaves them 10th overall.Here is the story I wrote before they travelled to their training camp a few short weeks ago. Anne-Marie and Helen were getting their hair and […]

With the Woodie’s DIY National Half Marathon taking place in Athenry on Sunday (1.0), likely contenders were flexing their muscles at a variety of races over the weekend. In Dublin’s Phoenix Park, Maria McCambridge won the women’s race at the Frank Duffy ’10’ in 55 mins 13 secs – not far off the 54.48 she […]

With the Woodie’s DIY National Half Marathon taking place in Athenry on Sunday (1.0), likely contenders were flexing their muscles at a variety of races over the weekend. In Dublin’s Phoenix Park, Maria McCambridge won the women’s race at the Frank Duffy ’10’ in 55 mins 13 secs – not far off the 54.48 she […]

  Wednesday August 29 PTAA Cork BHAA 5km, Togher, 7.30pm. C: Seamus Casey 021 4885655; ; www.corkbhaa.com Swinford Harvest Series Race  4 Meelick 7km,   7pm. Entry €5. All welcome, tea after. C: Padraic 086 8738691., Michael 086 8196511, Peter 087 9014211. Roscommon 5km Series Rd 2 Boyle, 7pm. Entry €25 for 4-race series or €10 […]