Yearly Archives: 2018

Our under 18 boys showed the result of their dedicated adherence to training at theLeinster cross-county in Navan today. Competing without the star performer of recent years, Shay McEvoy, they took the gold in the under 18 race and were silver medal winners in the junior section. James Kearney led them home in 5th place and the rest of the team bunched well with Kevin Burns 15th, Luke Whelan 18th, John Muldowney 21st and Cathal Kearney 22nd. Our two under 18 girls also ran well with AnnieMcEvoy coming 5th and Issey Shine placing 22nd. Martha Bergin and Kate Maher got [...]

KCH had three athletes competing in the AAI Open cross-country in Abbottstown today. Once again Brian Maher showed his amazing ability and tenacity with a firstplace finish in the over 40 division. His time of 23.29 for the 7.5Km is also impressive. Eoin Everard competing at senior level placed 10th in 23.13 and the third fine performance came from Shay McEvoy who ran the Junior 6Km. Shay finished in 8th place in 18.56. Well done men. Ye did us proud.  

Well done to all who took part in the 5K and 10K runs in aid of breast cancer. With 17,000 registered for the run great credit goes to Irene Henebry for her hosting the event and the team she gathered to help at registration and marshalling. Congrats.  

Toss Hayes and Eoin Everard placed second and third respectively in the annual Tinryland Four Miler. Toss completdthe run in 19.49 while Eoin's time was 20.04. well done men. 

Todays summer weather brought joy to all at cross-country Day 2 in Castlecomer. Our new tent got a good airing, even if it didn't have to worry about rain. Many of our younger athletes enjoyed the day so much that they careered around the fields running much further in their enjoyment than they had run in their races.  Our first numbe ONEr was in race number one - the boys under 7 - with Darragh O'Callaghan taking the gold. Number two came in the girls under 9 when Ellen Daly ran a stormer to leave all the rest behind. Number three [...]

Well that is the QUESTION. Are you a club member? Did you compete in the County Championships? If not, did you let the coach that has been training you know that you would not be running? So three questions!!! The ANSWER to all three should be YES. And so a relatively small number of club members travelled to Ballycurran Cross for Round 1 of the County Kilkenny Cross-country Championships. Those who travelled did themselves and the club proud. With just three teams scoring and gathering 8 points it will take a miracle to get our name on the shield this [...]

The Annual Primary Schools cross-country was held in ideal conditions in the Castle Park today. Large numbers turned out to do battle for their schools and in the endeavor to bring home the coveted shields. In the individual scoring St Canice's were very much to the fore winning five of the six races. For the boys Oisin Henderson, Patrick Lacey and Rory McEvoy were the winners of 4th, 5th and 6th respectively. Ellie O'Carroll 5th class and Emily Smith 6th class scored for St Canice's girls. The 4th class girls race was won in a very convincing manner by ClodaghO'Callaghan, [...]