At the World Masters Indoors in Daegu,Korea today, the Irish men’s over 40 and over 55 teams both took gold. First up on the 8km course were the over 55 men, with Tom O’Connor of Liffey Valley finishing a fighting fifth, Pat O’Grady of Drogheda and District 6th and Michael Cornyn of Dunboyne AC 12th. […]
Although Sean O’Leary came home a comfortable winner of the senior boys’ race, St Aidan’s CBS failed to make it three in a row at the Irish Life Health Leinster Schools Cross-Country Championships in Santry yesterday. In dry, firm conditions, O’Leary made his move about halfway through the race, leaving Cormac Dalton of St Joseph’s […]
Sarah Keane was elected president of the Olympic Council of Ireland at last night’s extraordinary general meeting in Dublin’s Conrad Hotel. Keane, Swim Ireland CEO and OCI executive member for the past two years, beat Willie O’Brien, acting president since Pat Hickey stepped aside last August, and Bernard O’Byrne, CEO of Basketball Ireland. Although for […]
Maria McCambridge pulled up in the Frankfurt Marathon just after the half way mark. McCambridge went through 10km in 36 mins 10 secs and ran 17:53 for the third 5km in the race, which put her on target to break 2 hrs 33 mins. Clearly something went wrong soon after with her time for the […]
Thanks to Cliona Foley in the Irish Independent for digging outthsi info on the Irishtown Track; there had been some disturbing rumours going about. From today’s Irish Independent: Dublin City Council has told the Irish Independent that the completion of the resurfacing of the track in Irishtown will go ahead in April by the same […]
Sarah McCormack of Clonliffe Harriers finished best of the Irish at the 30th World Mountain Running Championships in Italy when she finished 15th in the women’s uphill only 8.4km race in a time of 51 mins 13 secs. Less than a minute behind was Sarah Mulligan of DSD in 20th place with a time of […]
The sensational news that Fionnuala Britton is to make her marathon debut at the European Championships has to overshadow all other discussion of a championships that could be the best ever from an Irish point of view. From Herald 8 August 2014. Britton’s main target for the games is the 10,000m on Tuesday evening after […]
At the Morton Games in Santry, the Morton Mile lived up to its billing when ten men went under the 4-minute barrier. Leading them home was double winner Will Leer of the USA, whose time of 3:51.82 was a new stadium record, breaking Steve Scott’s 3:53.80. Also inside the old record were two other American […]
In the absence of Irish No 1 Scott Evans, Jonathan Dolan won his first Irish title at the National Badminton Championships, held in Baldoyle. Dolan beat Irish junior international Joshua Magee in the men’s singles final, having dismissed Ulster player Tony Stephenson who is aiming for Commonwealth Games selection in the earlier stages of the […]
Fionnuala Britton has won the CrossCup cross-country in Belgium. Sarah Treacy was 4th, Anne Marie Larkin 8th and Laura Crowe 9th. Siofra Cleirigh Buttner was first junior. In the men’s race, David McCarthy was best of the Irish, finishing 4th. Both Britton and McCarthy are now pre-selected for the European Cross-Country with the team […]
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