Clonliffe’s Gary O’Hanlon led home 401 finishers at the Marathon Cool-Down 8-Mile, held in the Phoenix Park, with sister Karen sixth overall and first woman. In Malahide, Feidhlim Kelly led home a massive 484 finishers at the First Anniversary Parkrun 5km. His time of 16.27 was a PB; first woman was Cindy Kelly in […]
Mark Christie of Mullingar Harriers was a comfortable winner of the Rathfarnham 5km, pushing the pace from the start and winning in 14 mins 37 seconds. Just three seconds adrift was Brian Maher of KCH. In the battle for third place, Conor Dooney of Raheny outsprinted Dunshaughlin’s Robbie Matthews and Tom Fitzpatrick of Tallaght, who […]
Clonliffe’s Mark Kenneally was the winner of the Mick Murphy 4-Mile hosted by Sliabh Buidhe Rovers in Ferns, Co Wexford on Saturday evening. Kenneally was chased early on by Freddie Keron Sittuk, the Kenyan now (apparently) running with Raheny Shamrock and Sean Hehir of Rathfarnham WSAF. This pair,both with hard races in their legs from […]
Over 300 turned out for the ninth Tommy Lynam Midsummer 5km, held over a new course in St Anne’s Park Raheny – the biggest turn-out yet. With the race incorporating the Dublin Novice Road Championships, clubs were out in force with large groups from Tallaght, Civil Service/Phoenix Park, Donore Harriers, Sportsworld, Clonliffe Harriers and host […]
Pauline Curley rolled back the years when she clocked a new course record time of 2:47.47 to finish first woman at the Cork City Marathon. Leading home the 1,200 finishers was Bartosz Mazerski of Lks Zantyr Sztum in Poland with a time of 2:28.29. Just 23 seconds behind was Gary O’Hanlon of Clonliffe Harriers running […]
Freddie Keron Sittuk the Kenyans who has been staying in Ireland for the past month, was first home at the Strawberry Half Marathon in Enniscorthy. Sittuk, who finished fourth in the Belfast Marathon and has since spent time in both Dublin and Donegal, was wearing the colours of Sliabh Bhui Rovers from nearby Ferns. On […]
In the past week, runners of all standards faced a bewildering choice of close to 50 races from slick commercial operations to free Parkruns. On a holiday weekend, there were possible trips away to highly publicised races in Limerick, Glengarriff, Galway, as well as a women’s mini marathon in Mayo. Biggest of the lot was […]
Mary Cullen of North Sligo ran a superb 15 mins 23.12 secs to finish fourth in the invitational 5000m at the Mount Sac meet in California. This was not far off her personal best of 15:18.34 set indoors in 2009; Cullen has also run 15:19.04 outdoors. In the same race, DSD’s Ava Hutchinson ran a […]
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