Mick Clohisey and Kevin Dooney competed in the senior men’s European Cross Country Championship on Sunday afternoon in a warm and extremely fast course in Chia.
It was a hard day’s work for the Irish team with Mick coming through the field to finish as Ireland’s second scorer in 43rd position. Paul Pollock was first Irish man home in 36th
Kevin found the heat and the pace a lot more testing on his senior international debut and came home in 69th place.
There are plenty more good days to come for Dooney who will without doubt produce some great performance in the green singlet.
The Irish team finished overall in 10th place a one place improvement on last year’s performance of 11th.
In reality there are some big questions to be asked of Irish men’s middle distance running as we look to be facing in a barren number of years.
