Lindie Naughton

TRIATHLON: Karl Kildea of Muckno Tri Club won the sprint race at Attracta Doherty Triathlon, organised by Virginia Tri Club. Kildea finished just over the hour for a comfortable victory over Wicklow’s Dave Barry. Laura O’Driscoll, 11th overall, was first woman. After a bad crash during the cycle that closed the road, both sprint and […]

* Dunshaughlin junior Thomas Moran won the St Brigid’s 5km in Oldcastle;  Tullamore Olympian Pauline Curley was first woman.* Dave Rooney and Maria McCambridge came out on top at the big race of the weekend – the  Corrib Oil Streets of Galway 8km. Rooney was chased hard by Paddy Hamilton and Sergiu Ciobanu but had […]

With four Irish athletes competing in the marathon at the London Olympics, and five making the A standard, Irish marathon running is back on the rise after a bleak few years. In the three Olympiads between 1996 and 2004, not a single Irish athlete made the Olympic marathon qualifying mark. For Beijing in 2008, two […]