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Hills: M20 team take bronze at Junior British and Irish Championships

The U20 men produced the best Irish result at the British and Irish Youth Mountain Running Championships held over a tough course at  Cademuir Hill, Peebles, Scotland when they took team bronze behind England and Scotland. Paul O’Donnell of DSD led the team home in ninth place.  In the U17 boy’s race, Ben Ryan of […]

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McCambridge Smashes Record; Fifth Title for Ciobanu at Ballycotton ’10’

Maria McCambridge of DSD proved the star of the 38th Ballycotton ’10’ when she smashed her own course record with a winning women’s time of 54 mins 20 secs. Not only that, but Maria now “owns” the three fastest women’s times in the race – she ran 54.48 in 2012 and 55.01 a year later. […]

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Round-Up: Reed and Adams win Masters; news of Mulcaire, Fagan, Murray and Euro Indoors qualifiers…

Derry’s Declan Reed successfully defended his men’s title at the Glo Health Masters Cross-Country Championships held in Tuam, Co Galway. Reed was chased hard by Letterkenny’s Ciaran Doherty who is back in top form this season. He finished in 23 mins 15 secs, with Doherty just four seconds behind for second. Dublin champion John Dunne […]

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Mid-Week: Robinson Runs Mile PB of 3:54.77 in Oslo. Colvert Wins Graded 100m

Paul Robinson of St Coca’s ran a personal best of 3:54.77 for the mile at last night’s Bislett Games in Oslo. World indoor 1500m champion Ayanleh Souleiman  of Djibouti won with race in 3:49.49. Robinson was running his second Diamond League in six days. In the “national” 1500m, Laura Crowe of Riocht finished second in […]

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Round-Up: Raheny Double at Leinsters; Fast times for Galligan, Devlin, Travers; Meet & Train

Raheny’s Conor Dooney won the men’s senior 10,000m race at the Leinster Cross-Country Championships held at the Blandsford Estate near Ballyroan in Co Laois. The boys in green had five runners in the top six and with Simon Ryan second, Kevin Moriarty fourth, Brian Leahy fifth, backed up by Ian Conroy sixth, were comfortable winners […]

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Irwin fastest in 100m at Dublin Graded League

Sligo’s Zak Irwin posted the fastest time of the night for the 100m at the fourth Dublin Graded Meet of the season in Santry. Irwin’s time of 10.88 put him well clear of the chasers, led by Tallaght’s  Keith Doherty. Catherine McManus of Celtic DCH won the women’s A race in 12.09. In the 3000m, […]

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On Your Marks – Herald April 24

Road running fans that have been around a bit know that for good value and impeccable organisation, you need look no further than the Business Houses Athletic Association, which has been organising races for over thirty years now. The BHAA ethos is simple: these are races organised by runners for runners. That’s it really – […]

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Hynes Beats Colvert for Varsity 100m Title (plus round-up)

David Hynes of Waterford IT just beat DCU’s Steven Colvert to win the men’s 100m at the second day of the Irish University Athletics Championships on the new Sonia O’Sullivan track at the Mardyke, Cork. Both men were timed at 10.66 seconds. In third place was QUB’s Jonathan Browning with a time of 10.85.Stephanie Creaner […]

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