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Pollock and Christie for Highgate Night of 10,000m PBs

Annadale’s Paul Pollock and Mark Christie of Mullingar Harriers lead the Irish entry for the annual Highgate Harriers Night of 10,000m PBs at the Parliament Hill track in London on Saturday May 20. Other Irish entered include Tullamore’s Liam Brady, Kevin Dooney of Raheny Shamrock, Derry’s Declan Reed, DSD pair John Eves and Killian Mooney, […]

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RTE wins for O’Leary and O’Shaughnessy. Travers beats Christie at Greystones. Lecky’s record

Cillian O’Leary and Laura Shaughnessy were the winners of the 40th anniversary RTE 5-Mile held in bitterly cold conditions around the roads of Donnybrook. First held in  1977, when the race started on Beaver Row and took in a loop of  Clonskeagh and Goatstown before returning to Donnybrook, the route has changed many times, due […]

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National 10k titles for Mark Christie and Kerry O’Flaherty (Results Updated)

Mark Christie of Mullingar Harriers and Newcastle’s Kerry O’Flaherty were the winners at the National 10k, held in Dublin’s Phoenix Park in conjunction with the Great Ireland Run. In the men’s race, Christie was also the overall winner  of  the race  in 29 mins 30 secs, beating British guest Graham Rush who finished in 29:41. […]

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Christie beats Clohisey in Raheny 5. Cleary first woman (updated)

A thrilling finish to the Axa Raheny 5 saw Mark Christie of Mullingar Harriers  outsprinting  defending champion and home favourite  Mick Clohisey  for victory. Christie and defending champion and home favourite Mick Clohisey pulled away from the field at two miles, and when it came to the final push, Christie had that little extra. He […]

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Round-Up: Heaslip, Christie Take National Titles, McCormack Reigns in Spain, Thornton Wins in Antarctic

Shona Heaslip provided the story of the day when she won the women’s 8km race at the Irish Life Health National Cross-Country Championships on the recently-launched National Cross-Country course at Abbotstown. With Kilcoole’s Fionnuala McCormack running in Spain, Lizzie Lee of Leevale taking a break and Caroline Crowley of Crusaders injured, the women’s race was […]

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Sunday Round-Up: Fionnuala McCormack 5th in Spain. Christie, Cleary win Leinster titles

Fionnuala McCormack of Kilcoole finished fifth at the Cross Internacional de Atapuerca in Burgos, Spain. Over the 8km course, McCormack finished just 48 seconds behind the race winner Senbere Teferi of Ethiopia who clocked a time of 24mins 45 secs with McCormack 48 seconds behind. Newcastle’s Kerry O’Flaherty was 24th in 27.21, Anne Marie McGlynn […]

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McCormack and Christie winners at Autumn Open Cross-Country. Hughes 1st M55 Amsterdam

Fionnuala McCormack of Kilcoole proved that she is still the woman to beat when  she won the Autumn Open Cross-Country over the newly-launched National Cross-Country Course at Abbotstown. McCormack proved the class of the field in the women’s 6000m, beating Polish visitor  Paulina Kaczynska by over half a minute. Showing a welcome return to form […]

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Nat T-F Day 1: Hargreaves wins 10,000m thriller

An absorbing men’s 10,000m won by Brandon Hargreaves of DSD was just one of the highlights of today’s opening day of the Glo Health National Track and Field Championships. Rio-bound marathon man Mick Clohisey of Raheny Shamrock had made the early running helped by his Raheny training partner Freddy Sittuk, but was tracked all the […]

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Clohisey runs record 29:44 at Fingal 10km. Plus results round-up

A brilliant race up front at the SSE Airtricity Fingal 10km saw Mick Clohisey and second placed Mark Kenneally both going under the course record of 30 mins 14 secs.  It was a second course record for Clohisey in the Dublin Races Series; he also broke the record at the Irish Runner 5-Mile last month. […]

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Roads: Lee Smashes Dunshaughlin 10k record. Christie just misses out.

If a road running league based on the best races in the country was to be set up (come on someone!), then the Dunshaughlin 10km would definitely be on  the list.  Look at the quality of last night’s race – Mark Christie and Mick Clohisey strained ever sinew in the chase for the course record […]

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