Home team Raheny Shamrock won the men’s senior title in a new record time at the Glo Health National Road Relays. First off for the team was Mark Kirwan who clocked a time of 9 mins 27 secs for the opening two-mile leg. He handed over to Kieran Kelly who ran 4 mins 22 secs […]
Defending champion Kevin Mulcaire of St Flannan’s Ennis was a convincing winner of the boys’ senior 6.5km race at the Glo Health Irish Schools Cross Country Championships at Sligo Race Course. It was a fourth national cross-country title for Mulcaire, who is also the current Irish junior cross-country champion. He made his break with a […]
Rio-bound steeplechaser Sara Treacy of Dunboyne AC won the women’s 3km at the Armagh International Road Races tonight. Treacy’s time of 9 mins 15 secs was enough to see off the challenge of Scottish athletes Sarah Inglis in 9:19.01 and Laura Whittle third in 9:19.24. Ann Marie McGlynn of Letterkenny was sixth in 9:23.54, Newcastle’s […]
Eimear Fitzpatrick of Our Lady’s Templeogue and Jack O’Leary of Clongowes were the winners of the senior titles at the Glo Health Leinster Schools Cross-Country held in perfect conditions at Santry. Retaining the senior boys’ team title were All Ireland champion St Aidan’s despite missing a few of their key athletes. Race of the day […]
Fionnuala McCormack of Kilcoole finished a fighting fourth in the Spar European Cross-Country Championships in Hyeres. With Leevale’s Lizzie Lee running a wonderfully consistent race to finish 13th, Caroline Crowley, a brilliant 23rd, Ciara Durkan 43rd, and the backing of Michele Finn and Kerry O’Flaherty, the team ended up with 83 points. That put them […]
Fionnuala McCormack and Mick Clohisey were the star turns at the Glo Health National Interclub Cross-Country in Santry on a new pre-Christmas date which saw cross-country return to its former glory days. In the women’s 8km, Kilcoole’s McCormack took over in front on the second lap and after that the battle was on for the […]
Brandon Hargreaves of Dundrum South Dublin and Letterkenny’s Annmarie McGlynn laid down markers for the forthcoming cross-country season when they won the men and women’s 8km races at the Autumn Open Cross Country in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Hargreaves ran a smart race, letting Irish junior champion Kevin Mulcaire of Ennis TC and Clonliffe’s Mark Kenneally […]
Kevin Mulcaire from Ennis finished just out of the medals in the men’s 5000m at the at the European Junior Track and Field Championships in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Mulcaire finished a gutsy fourth in 14 mins 39.14 secs – less than four seconds off third place in a tactical race that only came alive in the […]
Defending champion Zak Irwin of Sligo Grammar ran a European Junior qualifying time of 10.60 seconds to win the senior 100m at the Glo Health All Ireland Schools Track and Field Championships in Tullamore. His time was just one-hundredth of a second off Marcus Lawler’s 2013 record of 10.59. Later in the day, Irwin, who […]
Kevin Mulcaire of Ennis took over four seconds off John Treacy’s 40-year old Irish junior record when he ran 14 mins 02.6 secs in the 5000m at the BMC Meet in Stretford, Manchester yesterday. A thrilling race saw Mulcaire leading for much of the race and losing out in the end only to Andrew Hayes […]
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