Schools Cross-Country Round-Up

Siofra Cleirigh Buttner Siofra Cleirigh Buttner of Colaiste Iosagain continued her five year winning streak at schools level when she took the senior girls’ title at the Aviva Leinster Schools Cross-Country Championships in blustery Santry on Wednesday February 6.  Only with 400m to go did Buttner move to the front quickly building on a gap […]

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On Your Marks – Herald Feb 6

* Stop press: A team may now be sent to the World Cross-Country Championships in March. Full team? Senior women only?  Interesting facts on the current road racing boom have emerged from  the John Treacy Dungarvan 10 mile  and the Axa Raheny 5 ten days ago.  Of the record breaking entry of 1,434 finishers in Dungarvan, 73 defied the windy conditions to run under […]

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Cleirigh Buttner Just Misses Medals (plus results)

DSD’s Siofra Cleirigh Buttner finished fourth in the junior women’s race at the European Clubs Cross-Country in Castellon Spain. Buttner lost out on a medal by just one second finishing in 13 mins 48 secs. Winner was Silvana Dias of Uniao Desportiva de Varzea in 13 mins 34 secs.  Clare McCarthy was second of the DSD […]

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Minority Report – Herald February 2

BADMINTON: Double Olympian Scott Evans hopes to add to his collection of Irish titles when he plays in the Irish National Badminton Championships in Lisburn this weekend. Evans is in confident form after winning the men’s singles title at the Cyprus International in Nicosia last week. He had a tough match against Leinster champion Owen […]

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Britton PB in Karlsruhe

Fionnuala Britton ran a personal best 8 mins 55.22  secs to finish third in the 3000m at the international  indoor meet in Karlsruhe, Germany and book her place at the European Indoors in Goteborg next month.Meseret Defar of Ethiopia raced away from the field with six laps to go, finishing in a world-leading time of […]

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On Your Marks – Herald Jan 30 (updated)

Although the Dublin Marathon still hasn’t acquired a major sponsor, the Marathon Mission will continue. Jim Aughney, race director of the Marathon Mission, is still at the helm, with the full support of Jim Davis and Teresa McDaid from Athletics Ireland. The story is well known – when the standard of  Irish finishers at the Dublin […]

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