Yearly Archives: 2019

The All-Ireland Indoor Relays were held in AIT today. It proved a day to remember for our under 12 girls. With three heats and results based on time it was to no avail to simply win your heat - it had to be won with the fastest time and that's what these girls did. From the start it was 110% from all four girls with anchor girl, Molly Daly, clinching it on the back straight with a powerful show of speed and strength ( Time 2.02.02). It was a similar challenge for the boys under 12. And they approached it [...]

AIT was the host college for this year's Intervarsities Track and Field. It proved a happy venue for Cliodhna Manning, Carlow IT,  as she  took the gold in the 400m in 54.47 just ahead of St Joseph's Sophie Becker. Brother Jack, having the first leg for the winning  DCU 4x400m relay team, also collected Gold. There were further relay medals for KCH athletes. AIT student, Louise Holmes, won bronze with her college 4x100m relay team. Callan Byrne, Carlow IT, won silver with his 4x100m team. Callan also represented the college in the 100m where he placed fith in the semi-final. [...]

It was a busy weekend at the All-Ireland Juvenile Indoors in the Athlone Arena. It was an eventful weekend for under 12 athlete Molly Daly. Running in her first Indoor All-Ireland she finished 4th in the 60m (8.85) on Saturday and showed great class to take the gold in the 600m on Sunday. Also going in the 60m was Oisin Henderson who had an excellent time of 8.76 for the event. Alex Cullen (U14) competing in three events was a busy athlete. With a PB of 4.83 in the Long Jump he was rewarded with a silver medal. He also [...]

Peter Lynch continued his running development at the Mike Fanelli Classic in San Francisco today. Representing the Tulsa University in the 5K he finished secondin his race in a new PB time of 14.18. 

Approximately twenty club members travelled to Mallow today to competein the 10 mile road race. Pat Purcell was first of the men home in a little over one minute while Clare Dermody was the first of the ladies. Among those who finished the race were Maired Lacey, Oonagh Guilfoyle, Anita Byrne, Joya Burns, Roisin O'Dwyer, Jackie Varley, Geraldine Grogan, Dympna Kelly, Catherine Ryan, Conor Darcy, Conor Bolger, Ciaran Hughes, Noel Maher, Mervyn Doyle, Paul Phelan, Declan Walshe and Michael Grogan.    

The Schools International cross-country was held in Santry today. Tom Lodge was part of the Junior Irish team. Running his usual strong race he placed fifth on the Irish team(22nd overall). With the the team coming third Tom got his first international medal.