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Joy for Mageean, disappointment for Cleirigh Buttner. Junior relay teams qualify

Ciara Mageean qualified for 1500m at the World Athletics Championships in London with a time of 4:04.49 at last night’s Golden Gala Diamond League meeting in Rome. Qualifying mark for the World Championships is 4:07.50; Mageean’s time was also inside the Commonwealth Games standard of 4:08.20. Mageean finished tenth in the race which was won […]

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Track: Christine McMahon runs PB 56.42 secs for 400m hurdles. Jameson runs Euro 10,000m time

Christine McMahon proved the star of the large Irish contingent  competing at the AtletiGaGeneva  meet in Switzerland when she ran a lifetime best of 56.42secs in the 4000m hurdles.  Her time was enough for second place in the B race and was an A qualifying mark for the Europeans. McMahon had already run a European […]

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European Team C’ships: Ireland 5th after Day 1; Barr 2nd

Thanks to a solid all-round performance from the team, the Irish are lying fifth on the points tables after the opening day of the European Team Championships League 1 in Heraklion, Greece. Although there were no wins, there were a number of third placings  and while Thomas Barr may be disappointed with his second in […]

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Christie and Cullen win Terenure 5. Walshe shines at AI Games

Mark Christie of Mullingar and Sligo’s Mary Cullen were the winners of the Terenure 5-Mile. Christie had to dig deep to hold off the challenge of DSD’s Brendan O’Neill for victory in 23 mins 52 secs. O’Neill was just one second adrift, with Freddy Keron Sittuk of Raheny third in 25:08, and Clonliffie’s Mark Kenneally […]

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