Ismail Ssenyange and Maria McCambridge came out on top at the Charleville International Half Marathon in Co Cork. For Ssenyange, who is Ugandan and a member of the Dubai Creek Striders, it was third time lucky – he finished second in both 2013 and last year. McCambridge, who is aiming to make the Rio ’16 […]
Mick Clohisey of Raheny – who runs the Berlin Marathon in a few weeks time – was an impressive winner of the Waterside Half Marathon in Derry. His time of 65 mins 8 secs put him over two minutes clear of his Raheny clubmate Freddy Keron Sittuk, who clearly had last weekend’s Longford Marathon in […]
Paddy Hamilton, of Annadale Striders was the clear winner of the SSE Airtricity Race Series Fingal 10km race in a time of 31:20. Hamilton is training for October’s Dublin Marathon, where he aims to improve on his fifth placing of last year. In second place was Mark Hoey from Star of the Sea, who emigrates […]
John Coghlan and Catherina McKiernan were the winners at the New Year’s Day 5km, organised by Liffey Valley in Dublin’s Phoenix Park this afternoon. On a day that turned out better than expected after early rain, Coghlan, going for a third successive victory, ran in tandem with Tomas FitzPatrick of Tallaght for much of the […]
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 […]
Maria McCambridge was first woman at the Airtricity Frank Duffy 10-mile , finishing in 56 mins 28 secs for her fourth victory in this race and her third in this year’s Airtricity Dublin Road Race Series. Her performance proved that she has recovered from the ordeal of the marathon at the World Championships, where she […]
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