Freddy Sittuk of Raheny and Ciara Hickey from Bros Pearse made it a Dublin double at the Michael Fearon /Kevin Marron 5km, organised by Glenmore AC from their headquarters on the Cooley Peninsula in Co Louth on Friday evening. Sittuk outlasted Ben Branagh of St Malachy’s in the chase for the line to win in […]
As has been the case all season, records tumbled in the field events at the final day of the Irish Life Health All Ireland Juvenile Track and Field Championships in Tullamore today. Among the record breakers were multi-eventer Kate O’Connor who won the W18 high jump with 1.74m. Others were Conor Cusack (Lake District Athletics) […]
Tomas Fitzpatrick of the host club won the Tallaght 5k for a second year; Fitzpatrick had run the Rotterdam Marathon two weeks ago. A close second was Raheny’s Mark Kirwan, with Martin Hoare of Celbridge AC third. First woman was Claire Sullivan of Rathfarnham WSAF who also won the Dublin novice road title. First of […]
Eoin Callaghan of Star of the Sea and Ciara Hickey of Bros Pearse were the winners of the Meath Spring Half Marathon in Bohermeen. Callaghan’s time of 68 mins 20 secs saw him finish over three minutes ahead of David Simpson, one of a large group from Newcastle and District in action. Hickey, who is […]
From Herald Wednesday 13 January After her fighting second at the Great Edinburgh Cross, Fionnuala McCormack leads the Irish entry at Saturday’s Antrim International Cross Country at Greenmount, where she faces a re-match with Kate Avery the British athlete who beat her last weekend in Edinburgh. McCormack, who has won the race twice in the […]
Ciara Hickey of Brothers Pearse, running her first ever cross-country race won the women 3km at the Dublin Masters Cross-County held in St Anne’s Park in trying underfoot conditions. Hickey was followed home by Anna Sadowska of Civil Service and DSD’s Justine O’Connell Urell. Sportsworld won a tightly-contested W35 team competing beating Donore by three […]
For some reason, the Wednesday Herald running column isn’t being added to www.herald.ie. So here is this week’s edition for anyone who didn’t get the Herald today. MEET AND TRAIN LEAGUE STILL GOING STRONG Well over a hundred women of all ages, sizes and levels of fitness turned out for Sunday’s Meet and Train league […]
John Coghlan of MSB and Caroline Crowley of Crusaders were the winners of the Tom Brennan New Year’s Day 5km held in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Coghlan, a many times previous winner of the race, controlled the race up from from the start, finishing in 15 mins 16 secs, which was enough to hold off Ben […]
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