2022 Results

The re-fixed county 10K, hosted by St Joseph's A.C., was held at the Pink Rock today. KCH ladies were very competitive with Claire Dermody finishing in second place to lead the team to silver medals on 32 points - just one point behind winners St Senan's. St Josephs were 3rd on 40 points. The other team members were Kate Millea 8th, Kate Sugrue 9th and Ann Marie Shortall 13th. Thanks to Kate Millea for getting the team together. Our men failed to muster a team on this occasion. Andrew Smyth  was our first man home in 5th place followed by [...]

Another busy weekend. BELFAST The Schools International were held in Belfast on Saturday and our representative there was Alex Cullen doing the Long Jump. Alex gained selection for this event when he placed second and had a PB of 6.40 at the Tailteann Games on the 24th June.   In Belfast he placed 6th while extending his PB to 6.44. BELGIUM Cliodhna Manning was in Belgium for the 400m at the Flanders Cup meet. Fresh from setting a new PB at the Cork City Sports earlier in the month she like Alex had another PB on Saturday. Finishing second she clocked 52.60 [...]

This was another great weekend for our juvenile athletes. The weather was hot and the cauldron that is Tullamore on day's like this can sap the energy. All the more to cherish the performances with most of our athletes achieving ~PBs. Under 14 - Here we had the top performer of the weekend with Matias Quaglia taking gold and silver. The silver came in the 80m sprint (10.07) on Saturday and then a clas performance in the 200m on Sunday won the gold with a PB of 24.31. Kate Maher was also going well. 10.97 for the 80m on Saturday [...]

This evening's Cork City Sports proved a memorable one for Cliodhna Manning. Plagued with injuries at various times in her career to date she now seems to have put those bebind her and getting under 53 seconds (2nd 52.76) will be a great boost to her further development. James Ledingham was 7th in the 3000 in 8.40.33. It was a good night also for Eamonn O'Connor. Eamonn was in the same race as James and finished 19th but his time of 8.58.12 is a big improvement on time achieved earlier this year.  

Two of our athletes were in Santry Stadium for tonight's Morton mile event. Cathal O'Reilly won the junior mile in 4.20.67 and Cliodhna Manning placed second in the 400m in 53.77. 

Despite some (of the younger ) nationals happening yesterday today is referred to by Athletics Ireland as Day 1. So be it and for Ellen Daly it was her second national medal - bronze in the u13 60m hurdles (9.80) to go with her sprint medal from yesterday. Under 17 athlete Alex Cullen was impressive with gold in the long jump (6.34) and bronze in 100m hurdles (14.94). Other under 17s to feature were Paddy Kelly 5th in 2000m steeplechase (6.53) and Liam Thompson 7th in Long Jump. Pia Langton having got boxed in a couple of times made a [...]

With all the Leinsters over the nationals for juveniles go full steam ahead over this and next weekend. Saturday 2nd was very much about the childrens games- "the Pairs" and relays for u9, u10 and u11. We had five sets of pairs qualified from the Leinsters - three under 10 and two under 11. The under 10 pair of Julia Daly and Ellen Ryan won bronze in the 500m and the under 11 pair of Aoibhinn Lacey and Vivienne Lepeskaite also won bronze in the 60m sprint. The other finalists were Mealla Crowley and Ella o'Flaherty in U10 Long Jump, [...]

It was good to see Cliodhna Manning back on the startline in Santry today. Running in her usual 400m event she easily qualified for Sunday's final with second place in her heat in 56.54. Sunday's final was a different challenge. Up against Phil Healy and Sophie Becker meant a serious race. Cliodhna seemed slow over the first 200 but a strong finish brought her into third place and anew PB of 53.05.  It was also good to see Aaron Barron back in action. Aaron finished fourth in the heats of both 200 (24.03) and 400 (51.84). Jack Manning clocked 49.29 when [...]

Another weekend in Tullamore. Another stepup from county competition. Another great haul of medals by our athletes. Another round of thanks to all our coaches for preparing the athletes week after week and also the parents for their support. There were thirtyfour individual medals won nine gold, thirteen silver and twelve bronze. A further number in fourth place including Fiach Crowley in U12 hurdles; Liam Thompson in U17 high jump; Paddy Kelly in U17 3000m; William Nugent n 200m U17; Blaithin Holden in U17 300m hurdles; Isabella Burke in U18 3000m; Kate Maher in U14 sprint; Martha Bergin in U14 [...]

There was a very enjoyable evening in Thomastown today as the weather was perfect, the atmosphere relaxed and boys and girls enjoying the competition. KCH had a great turnout of juveniles and quite a number taking part in their first ever track and field event. Others having whetted the appetite at the "A" event were very enthusiastic. One of note was Under 9 boy, Daniel McIntyre, with gold in the long jump, silver in 80m and bronze in 300m and turbo jav. Kara Canavan had a 1st, 2nd and 3rd in shot, long jump and sprint respectively. Under 14 boys [...]