Lindie Naughton

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 […]

  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 […]