News not great from the Rotterdam Marathon: Brian Maher, Maria McCambridge, and Ailish Malone all dropped out. First Irish finisher was Tom Hogan of SBR in 2 hrs 28 mins 38 secs, with Raheny’s Barbara Sanchez ninth overall and best of the Irish women. In the Phoenix Park, Linda Byrne of DSD won the Woodie’s […]
David Hynes of Waterford IT just beat DCU’s Steven Colvert to win the men’s 100m at the second day of the Irish University Athletics Championships on the new Sonia O’Sullivan track at the Mardyke, Cork. Both men were timed at 10.66 seconds. In third place was QUB’s Jonathan Browning with a time of 10.85.Stephanie Creaner […]
Gary Thornton from Galway, who first ran for Ireland as a junior mountain runner, has won the North Pole Marathon in minus 30 degree conditions. Thornton, whose marathon best is 2 hrs 17 mins, finished in 3 hrs 49 mins 29 secs. The race, with 46 runners from 20 nations starting, took place around 20 […]
Brian Maher and Maria McCambridge lead a Marathon Mission squad at Sunday’s Rotterdam Marathon – the start of a hectic period of spring marathons in big cities all over the world. Also competing in Rotterdam are Joe McAllister in the men’s race along with a trio of women – Ailish Malone of Clonliffe, the only […]
A record 100 teams from 20 schools competed in yesterday’s West Leinster Schools Medley Relays held in Santry. Girls – Minor: 1 Holy Family CC, 2 St Peter’s Dunboyne, 3 Castleknock College. Junior: 1 St Joseph’s College, 2 St Louis HS, 3 St Joseph’s College. Inter: 1 St MacDara’s, 2 Mount Sackville, 3 Holy Family […]
MINORITY REPORT, Herald 6 April 2013 TEN PIN BOWLING: Young Irish bowler Amanda Larkin made history las week when she became the first ever Irish winner of the European Youth Championships in Vienna. Competing against 68 players from 22 countries, Larkin made the matchplay finals in ninth place after bowling consistently well in the qualifying […]
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