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Saturday 17 North West Cross-Country/Juvenile Races, Gransha Park grounds, Clooney Rd, Derry. Boys/girls U13,15,17 races from 11.30qm; entry €2.  Open 6km race, 12.20pm. Prizes first 3 M&F; O35,40,45,50,55,60,65,70 and U20 M&F. Entry €6. Sponsored by Foyle Valley Wine Club. C: Gerry Lynch 07702 006 667; gerry.lynch@hotmail.com; www.sparta-athletics.co.uk.  Stormont Santa Run, Stormont, Belfast, 11.30am Entry £5/6. […]

Perry,  Rooney –  2010 winners Madeline Perry and John Rooney will defend their titles at the Irish Squash Senior Nationals in Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club, Dublin starting on Friday. Perry, currently world No 4, has had an excellent season winning the Singapore Masters last July. She reached finals in both Kuala Lumpar last March and […]

Perry,  Rooney –  2010 winners Madeline Perry and John Rooney will defend their titles at the Irish Squash Senior Nationals in Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club, Dublin starting on Friday. Perry, currently world No 4, has had an excellent season winning the Singapore Masters last July. She reached finals in both Kuala Lumpar last March and […]

Sunday December 10  Woodie’s DIY National Novice Championships, the Curragh. Full result AAI website; a superb total of 1,530 athletes ran in the 12 races. Women’s 3km (151 finishers): 1 Laura Behan (KCK) 11.22; 2 Catherine Devitt (Rathfarnham WSAF) 11.26; 3 Martina Kiely (St Finbarr’s) 11.29; 4 Leona O’Reilly (Liffey Valley) 11.31; 5 Laura Shaughnessy […]

Sunday December 10  Woodie’s DIY National Novice Championships, the Curragh. Full result AAI website; a superb total of 1,530 athletes ran in the 12 races. Women’s 3km (151 finishers): 1 Laura Behan (KCK) 11.22; 2 Catherine Devitt (Rathfarnham WSAF) 11.26; 3 Martina Kiely (St Finbarr’s) 11.29; 4 Leona O’Reilly (Liffey Valley) 11.31; 5 Laura Shaughnessy […]

Fionnuala Britton of Kilcoole ran a determined race to win the women’s title at the Spar European Cross-Country Championships in Velenje, Slovenia. Last year, Britton had been outsprinted for bronze and finished just seven seconds behind the winner, so victory was especially sweet.   In the first kilometre of the race, Britton led a breakaway group […]

Fionnuala Britton of Kilcoole ran a determined race to win the women’s title at the Spar European Cross-Country Championships in Velenje, Slovenia. Last year, Britton had been outsprinted for bronze and finished just seven seconds behind the winner, so victory was especially sweet.   In the first kilometre of the race, Britton led a breakaway group […]

  Kilkenny’s Eoin Everard switched the track for the country when he ran a perfectly judged race to win the  men’s 6km  race  at the Woodie’s DIY National Novice Cross-Country Championships in the Curragh.  Racing on soft ground made even softer by the eleven races that had already taken place, Everard kept a watching  brief […]

  Kilkenny’s Eoin Everard switched the track for the country when he ran a perfectly judged race to win the  men’s 6km  race  at the Woodie’s DIY National Novice Cross-Country Championships in the Curragh.  Racing on soft ground made even softer by the eleven races that had already taken place, Everard kept a watching  brief […]

Fionnuala Britton is Ireland’s best chance of a medal at tomorrow’s (Sun) Spar European Cross-Country Championships in Velenje, Slovenia. Only two weeks ago, Britton beat Binniz Uslu of Turkey the woman who out-sprinted her in the chase for the line and finished second last year.  Uslu, a previous junior and U-23 champion, is at her […]