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Men wanted for ARC Mini Mar! Before the current running boom, just two marathons punctuated the long-distance runners’ annual rhythm – the Dublin Marathon in October and the Belfast Marathon in May, both of them on Bank Holiday Mondays. Now the calendar is littered with long-distance races, organised by local councils and clubs and by […]

  Wednesday 2 Runways Duathlon, Phoenix Park, 7.30pm. www.dublintri.com. Pat Finnerty Memorial 5km Series  (Race 1 of 5), Belvedere House, Mullingar, 8pm. Entry €25 for series; reg from 6.30pm. Nominated charity Mullingar Lions Club.  C: info@mullingarharriers.com. Swinford AC Spring Challenge Midfield 6km, 8pm.  Entry €5 (€2 club members); reg from 6.45pm.  Accurately measured, km markers, […]

  Wednesday 2 Runways Duathlon, Phoenix Park, 7.30pm. www.dublintri.com. Pat Finnerty Memorial 5km Series  (Race 1 of 5), Belvedere House, Mullingar, 8pm. Entry €25 for series; reg from 6.30pm. Nominated charity Mullingar Lions Club.  C: info@mullingarharriers.com. Swinford AC Spring Challenge Midfield 6km, 8pm.  Entry €5 (€2 club members); reg from 6.45pm.  Accurately measured, km markers, […]

Update from St Michael’s: “We came up trumps at last this evening with the very kind offer of two boats.  The first being a yacht,  Helcia, skippered by Jim Gorman who belongs to the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire.  We have accepted his offer and now can continue our plans for the race.  Can […]

Update from St Michael’s: “We came up trumps at last this evening with the very kind offer of two boats.  The first being a yacht,  Helcia, skippered by Jim Gorman who belongs to the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire.  We have accepted his offer and now can continue our plans for the race.  Can […]

Fionnuala Britton of Kilcoole  has achieved the 10,000m Olympic A standard after running a sensational time of  31:29.2 at the  Payton Jordon Cardinal Invitational, Standford University, Palo Alto,  California. That time is well inside the London 2012 A standard of 31:45.  At the same meeting,  Alistair Cragg dropped out of the 10,000m six laps from the […]

Fionnuala Britton of Kilcoole  has achieved the 10,000m Olympic A standard after running a sensational time of  31:29.2 at the  Payton Jordon Cardinal Invitational, Standford University, Palo Alto,  California. That time is well inside the London 2012 A standard of 31:45.  At the same meeting,  Alistair Cragg dropped out of the 10,000m six laps from the […]

ROWING: Watching the weather reports anxiously these days are 12 men and women from St Michael’s Rowing Club, Dun Laoghaire. Next weekend in Arklow, they will pick up the oars on their traditional wooden boat and set off for Aberystwyth in Wales as one of 27 teams in the biennial Celtic Challenge. At 150km, this […]

ROWING: Watching the weather reports anxiously these days are 12 men and women from St Michael’s Rowing Club, Dun Laoghaire. Next weekend in Arklow, they will pick up the oars on their traditional wooden boat and set off for Aberystwyth in Wales as one of 27 teams in the biennial Celtic Challenge. At 150km, this […]

Linda Byne A thrilling final leg saw Rathfarnham WSAF snatch the men’s title from defending champions Raheny Shamrock at the Woodie’s DIY All Ireland Road Relays  in Raheny.  Simon Ryan for Raheny and Sean Hehir for Rathfarnham had set out on the final two-mile leg together and they stayed together until the final lung-bursting sprint […]