Monthly Archives: May 2018

Day 2 of the county track & field championships, in matters of weather and results, proved another day in the sun for our athletes. The weather was good – the results even better. From our under 8s, Jasmine Timmons McEneaney and Michael Ormond both of whom had double silver, to our Ladies O/30 and the many athletes in between the club had a great day. As on Day 1 there were a number of double gold including Mathias Quaglia, Louis Raggett, Harry Boyle and Amelie Foley. But the outstanding athlete on the day was under 17 competitor, Jennifer Leahy, who came [...]

Congratulations to Brian Maher on being named as the David Buggy Motors Sport Star Award winner for April, an award well earned and truly deserved. Thanks for your support.

At an athletic event in the Tallaght stadium tonight four young athletes wrote a bit of history when they set a new record for the Junior Ladies 4x400m relay. theirtime was 3.44.38. Congratulations and well done to all on the team, especially to KCH team member Ciara Deely.

Our ladies did us all proud at the Leinster Novice and Masters Road Races in a sun-drenched road in Gowran today. Outstanding performers were our O/50s ladies team. Individual first and third places by Niamh Richardson and Cathy Millett respectively. In combination with Irene Henebry and Dympna Kelly, they were first club and first county. The ladies O/35 were not far behind in their achievements. Donna Dowling won individual silver and herself and Barbara Rossiter were early scorers on the county team which placed second. The other team members were Joan Martin, Kate Millea and Joya Burns. There was early disappointment [...]

What a change the weather makes. The sun shone gloriously and the long winter was forgotten. A large number of our younger athletes performed brilliantly. There were many great individual performances and some lively competition in the relays – the competition not least between a number of KCH teams in various races. From our youngest medal winners -( Jasmine Timmons, Amelie O’Brien, Michael Ormond, Darragh O’Callaghan, all under 8s) – to our sole Senior medal winner – (Ciara Murphy ) – there were some marvellous results. Among the high achievers was Jennifer Leahy with three individual wins -200m, 300m hurdles and [...]

A strong wind today on the back straight at the Waterford RSC hampered those athletes going for a PB at this tonlegaoithe meet. Nevertheless KCH athletes Ciara Deely and Lauren Gleeson had good times in their respective events. Ciara clocked 55.14 in the 400m while Lauren had 12.28 in the 100m.

800m Rory Lodge 1.53, Adam FitzPatrick 1.55 1500 Shay McEvoy 3.59, Kevin Burns 4.12, James Kearney 4.19, Ella Richardson 4.52.