Vulture funds: while these latter-day Scrooges make the lives of over-reaching speculators a misery, they stay at one remove from ordinary folk. Or so you might think. Imagine this scenario: you are a sports club and want to lay down a new pitch or track; or maybe build a club house for the use of […]
Emma Mitchell finished seventh in the women’s 5000m at the World University Games in Taipei today. Her time of 16:00.02 put her less than 15 seconds behind the winner Hanna Klein of Germany who finished in 15:45.28. Shona Heaslip ran a personal best time of 16:09.62 to finish 11th. Only Irish athlete left is Matt Bergin […]
Clonliffe Harriers comfortably retained their Irish Life Health men’s premier league title on a wet day in Tullamore. In the women’s premier division, DSD ‘s six year winning streak was ended by St Abban’s. Not even a super victory in the 4 x 400m could pull it back for DSD who had four wins compared […]
Laura Graham, the national marathon champion, came home first overall at the Dambusters Half Marathon in Co Down yesterday. It means she joins that exclusive club of women who have won races outright, beating all the men as well as the women. On the tough, hilly course, which started from the Silent Valley in the […]
Clonliffe’s Brian Gregan is listed for the 400m at tomorrow’s Birmingham Diamond League meet, which means he will miss the Irish Life Health National League final in Tullamore. Gregan, after running a lifetime best of 45.26 secs earlier this season, is the third fastest entry in the race, which is not part of the Diamond […]
A few random thoughts on London 2017 – the World Athletics Championships 1 Ten days is too long – what was wrong with a five or even seven day schedule with heats and qualification round taking place during the day? 2 Four hours every evening on the BBC was way too much. WAY too much! […]
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