2020 Results

Our scholarship athletes returned to the Indoors this weekend. Peter Lynch, representing Tulsa University, was competing at the Gorilla Classic in Iowa while Aoife Richardson, University of San Francisco, competed in the Husky Classic in Seattle. Peter ran much of his 5K atthe back and only moved through the field with some 600m to go. Finishing in 14.09.04 he showed a 26 second improvement on this event in 2019. The story was equally impressive for Aoibhe as she finished 7th in 15.52 some 25 seconds ahead of her previous PB of 16.17 - so a Valentine's Day to remember. [...]

Eoin Everard made the trip to Armagh today for the International 5K Road Race. His trip was well worthwhile as he posted a good time of 14.20 for the event.

Two Kilkenny Schools, St Kieran's College and Loreto, had good performances at theLeinster Schools CC Championships today. Between them they brought six sets of medals - three each -  to the city. St Kierans won gold in Minor and Intermediate Boys and silver with the senior team. Fot Loreto the Junior and Intermediate teams won bronze and the seniors won silver - their minors were fourth. Harriers members played a significant role with scoring members as follows - Minor girls: 7 Louisa Gilmore, 49 Aine White; Intermediate 34 Eleanor Godden; Senior 15 Annie McEvoy. Minor Boys 6 Ruairi McEvoy, Oisin [...]

Today was Grand Prix Day as Athletics Ireland hosted it's annual Indoor Games in the Abbotstown stadium. Two of our athletes competed. Jack Manning in 60m and Kevin Burns in 3000m. Jack placed 7th in heat 2 of 60m Series 1 and 6th in heat 3 of Series 11. His respective times were 7.27 and 7.31. Kevin, after a long cross country season, took to the indoors for this 3ooom race.Finishing 16th  he performed well clocking 9.10.56 for the race. 

It was a case of "see him run" at the National Masters cross-country in Avondale National Park today. The "him" of course was veteran athlete Brian Maher. With soft underfoot conditions Brian made quick work of this national 7Km cross-country run. Completing the course in 23.43 he not only won his own over-40 category but was the overall winner. Perhaps he had home duties to attend to, but be that as it may, he didn't hang about. Congratulations and stay forever young.   

Day 2 of theLeinster Indoors in Athlone was medalwise a little more successful than Day 1 bringing the medal count so far to eleven - 3 gold, 6 silver and 3 bronze. In addition there were six 4th place finishes with the result that we will have considerable representation in the nationals. While overall results were satisfactory there was a disappointment for one of our under 12 athletes. Kate Maher took a fall in the 60m on Saturday but recovered to finish the race. Then on Sunday following a really great performance in the 600m she was disqualified on a [...]

Peter Lynch (Tulsa University) and Aoibhe Richardson (San Francisco ) got their Indoor seasons under way with good runs in their respective 3000m races. Peter clocked 8.08 when coming 2nd in Indiana while Aoibhe had a respectable 9.25 in Seattle.

Please note Entries for January 4, 12, 19, 25 and  26 are recoreded in "Results 2019"