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Mid-pack Dublin Marathon 2012 Although a title sponsor has yet to be nailed down, entries are already coming in for next year’s Dublin Marathon on Monday October 28.“The race is definitely going ahead but maybe not the same version as recent years,” says race director Jim Aughney.With no race sponsor for this year’s race,  the […]

Mid-pack Dublin Marathon 2012 Although a title sponsor has yet to be nailed down, entries are already coming in for next year’s Dublin Marathon on Monday October 28.“The race is definitely going ahead but maybe not the same version as recent years,” says race director Jim Aughney.With no race sponsor for this year’s race,  the […]

* Any last minute dates for the 2013 fixtures list? Contact me direct at lindie(dot)naughton (at)gmail(dot)com. Wednesday  November 21 Raheny Fit for Life 2-Mile Series Rd 6 (of 6),  Raheny, Dublin, 8pm. Entry €7; reg clubhouse until 7.45pm. Followed by series prizegiving.  C: Pat Hooper 086 8158052 or Sean McGoldrick 087 2248274;  www.rahenyshamrock.ie. West Waterford […]

* Any last minute dates for the 2013 fixtures list? Contact me direct at lindie(dot)naughton (at)gmail(dot)com. Wednesday  November 21 Raheny Fit for Life 2-Mile Series Rd 6 (of 6),  Raheny, Dublin, 8pm. Entry €7; reg clubhouse until 7.45pm. Followed by series prizegiving.  C: Pat Hooper 086 8158052 or Sean McGoldrick 087 2248274;  www.rahenyshamrock.ie. West Waterford […]

Wayne Reid *Rathfarnham’s Sean Hehir and Fiona Roche of Rahney were the winners at the NoelMcGuill/Sandra Floyd Cross-Country in Dunleer. * New York came to the Phoenix Park on Sunday with 174  of the 500 or so Irish who had signed up for the New York Marathon taking up the invitation to run the distance in […]

Wayne Reid *Rathfarnham’s Sean Hehir and Fiona Roche of Rahney were the winners at the NoelMcGuill/Sandra Floyd Cross-Country in Dunleer. * New York came to the Phoenix Park on Sunday with 174  of the 500 or so Irish who had signed up for the New York Marathon taking up the invitation to run the distance in […]

HOCKEY: A strong Irish men’s hockey team heads for next week’s Champions Challenge in Argentina hoping to qualify for the 2013 Champions Trophy. In the group matches, the Irish play host side Argentina next Saturday followed by Japan and and South Africa, with play-offs to follow. The Irish lost to Argentina twice last year, but […]

Despite a record breaking effort by Brian Kelly for DCU on the last leg, UCD held on to win the  men’s race at the Irish University Road Relays at Maynooth by just 0.3 of a second. UCD’s Joe Sweeney Big rivals DCU had entered a team including five scholarship athletes. UCD had just one in Mark […]

Despite a record breaking effort by Brian Kelly for DCU on the last leg, UCD held on to win the  men’s race at the Irish University Road Relays at Maynooth by just 0.3 of a second. UCD’s Joe Sweeney Big rivals DCU had entered a team including five scholarship athletes. UCD had just one in Mark […]

So near and yet so far – that was the story for Barbara Cleary of Donore Harriers at the British and Irish Masters Cross-Country International in Belfast.Cleary, who only joined Donore about six months ago, has been a revelation. In June, she won the Dunshaughlin 10km in an impressive time of 34 mins 52 secs […]