Dunleer Athletic Club athlete Tomas Cotter won gold in the National USA Junior Colleges Championships in Illinois on Saturday. Running in the mile event Tomas running for his college Iowa CC won in a sprint for the line in 4.16.29 just beating the favourite Stephen Sambu from Rend Lake in 2nd 4.16.77 with George [...]
Deirdre Ryan of Dundrum South Dublin AC has jumped 1.90m in the High Jump at the French National Indoor Championships today and is hopeful that she will gain selection for the forthcoming World Indoor Championship. Ryan had already achieved the qualification standard for the World Indoors Championships when setting an Irish Indoor record of 1.93m [...]
Rose-Anne Galligan (Newbridge AC) has achieved the World Indoor qualification standard for the 1500m at the Spanish Championships. Galligan ran a personal best of 4:12.72 minutes to win the heat, smashing her previous indoor best of 4:15.13 minutes and was well inside the standard of 4.15.00 minutes.
Derval O’Rourke got her preparations back on track for [...]
BHAA Garda/St Raphaels CC Race 27/2/2010. 266 Runners.
Men 4M; 1 E Flynn (Bank of Ireland) 20:01; 2 T Fitzpatrick 20:02; 3 B Roe (Gerard Laboratories) 20:05;
M40; 1 M Boyle 22:01; 2 T Buggle (Irish Prison Service) 23:01; 3 P Coyle 23:19;
M45; 1 P Malone (Turf Club) 20:11; 2 T O’Connor (Bank of Ireland) 21:20; 3 [...]
[ March 28, 2010; ] Due to the recent rail and M3 road developments in the area, a new and exiting course have been devised. The course enters Dunboyne village on three different occasions during the race, making it a spectacular spectator event. This course may also be of interest to triathletes preparing for the coming season.
New course, fast and [...]
There were a number of exhilarating performances at the Woodie’s DIY Senior Indoor Championships in the Odyssey Arena this weekend. Olympians Derval O’Rourke and Paul Hession were the star attractions with athletes from across Ireland batting it out for National titles. The championships also provided athletes with an opportunity to show form and achieve [...]
There were a number of exhilarating performances on day one of the Woodie’s DIY Senior Indoor Championships. The first event of the day saw three Olympians, Robert Heffernan (Togher AC), Colin Griffin (Balinamore AC) and Jamie Costin (West Waterford AC) line up in the Men’s 5km Walk. Heffernan took the lead from the gun to [...]
Its very nice to do something together as a group; our group consisted of prehaps over a thousand and we were all running; ten kilometres to be precise.
Brian May, John Culhane, David and Des May in their hats!
The gun fired and everyone took off; a few at a gallop, most too fast, some too slow, [...]
By Cóilín Duffy
European Indoor bronze medallist Mary Cullen opened her competitive year in style as she led from the off in the Antrim International – IAAF Cross Country Permit – banishing the disappointment of her 12th place at the European’s in Dublin last month.
Cullen was told to sit in the pack and follow the pace [...]
[ June 27, 2010; ] Skerries Triathlon takes place on Sunday, June 27th. There will be Sprint and Olympic distance events.
