Leevale multi-eventer Sam Healy won the race of the day at the GloHealth Junior/U23 Championships at the CIT when he beat Matthew Behan of Crusaders to take the junior 110m hurdles title. He finished in 14.11 secs; just one-hundredth of a second ahead of Behan. A lot more relaxed was the long jump which Healy […]
David McCarthy from West Waterford ran a time of 3 mins 46 secs to win a tactical 1500m at the AAI Games held in Santry. From the start, McCarthy tucked in behind John Coghlan who made the early pace. Not too far behind this pair was Andrew Coscoran of Star of the Sea who will […]
Siofra Clerigh Buttner of Colaiste Iosagain ended her Leinster schools athletics career with a new 800m record on the second day of the Aviva Leinster Schools Track and Field Championships in Santry on Saturday. Cleirigh Buttner’s time of 2 minutes 7.03 seconds broke the previous record by over two seconds and saw her finish […]
Siofra Cleirigh Buttner of Colaiste Iosagain set a small piece of history when she won the senior girls race at the Aviva All Ireland Schools Cross-Country in the Cork Institute of Technology for a record sixth time. Buttner started her schools career at the age of 12 when she won the first of two junior […]
UCD’s Mark English set a new Irish 800m indoor record of 1:46.82 at the Woodie’s DIY Open Games in Athlone, breaking Daniel Caulfield’s 13-year-old record of 1:47.21. The time was also inside the World Indoors qualification mark of 1:47.00. After pushing the pace from the start, English finished second behind Thijem Kupers of Netherlands, who […]
Sprinter Phil Healy’s time of 7.46 secs for the 60m proved the highlight of the inaugural National Club Indoor League held in Athlone. In her first year as a senior, Healy stormed down the track to beat old rival Sarah Lavin, now with UCD, who clocked 7.61 secs, with Catherine McManus of Celtic DCH third […]
Fionnuala Britton underlined her status as Irish athletics’ biggest star with an assured performance at the Woodie’s DIY National Intercounty Cross-Country Championships in Santry. The double European champion led from the start in the women’s 8km winning by just over a minute. Behind her, Sarah McCarthy of Clonliffe passed Sara Treacy for second early in […]
Louise Shanahan has won the 800m title at the European Youth Olympic Festival in the Netherlands in a huge PB of 2.08.75. Ireland took a second gold in the 4 x100m, with the team anchored by Roseanne McGuckian who took individual bronze in the 200m. Ireland had already collected two silver medals in Utrecht – […]
Defying the windy conditions, Clonliffe’s Brian Gregan ran 45.65 secs to win the 400m in Goteborg, Sweden. His time was close to the personal best 45.53 he ran earlier this week in Spain. In the women’s 1500m, Claire Tarplee of DSD knocked almost two seconds off her previous best when finishing third in 4:11.35 – […]
Just after he crossed the line in the senior 200m at the Aviva All Ireland Schools in Tullamore, Marcus Lawler glanced left to check the time. When he saw that the clock had stopped at a mind-blowing 20.88 – later rounded down to 20.87- secs, he leaped into the air with delight. The time – […]
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