The Irish team took two individual silver, as well as two team silvers and one team bronze at the annual SIAB Schools Combined Championships held in Athlone for the first time ever to celebrate the centenary of Irish schools athletics. Star of the Irish team was Anna McCauley who scored personal bests in all five […]
Belvedere’s boys and the girls of St Peter’s Dunboyne were the overall winners at today’s West Leinster Medley relays held in Santry. A total of 320 students in eighty teams participated and well as 45 boys and 18 girls in the open 800m, making it the idea warm-up for the Leinster schools zone qualifiers. These […]
Siofra Cleirigh Buttner (Col Iosagain) and Sarah McCarthy (Maryfield) were both senior double winners over the two days of the Aviva East Leinster Schools Girls’ track and field championships held in (mostly) sunny Irishtown. Cleirigh Buttner raced away with the 800m in a time of 2 mins 12 secs on the opening day, late helping […]
Great wins in the senior 1500m for Adam Foley of Ard Scoil Ris in 4 mins 15 secs and for Jamie Cullen of Arklow CBS in the senior 400m. Making it an inter 200m/400m double was Kevin Woods of CUS. * Results now as complete as I can make them; no hammer and a […]
Every year, I spend many days in Santry and Irishtown covering Leinster Schools Track and Field Championships. That involves typing out results from all four zones – West, North, East and South (when I get them). I am well aware that errors creep in; it’s a pressure job for everyone. So here’s a plan: am […]
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