The first weekend in February was a busy one for 34 Raheny Shamrock teenagers. The national indoor arena in Abbotstown was the venue for the Dublin indoor juvenile championship. A very familiar setting to most of the teens, having been our training ground of late as we await the re-opening of Morton Stadium this spring. Track action started with the 200m. We had four athletes take part in the u16…
Favors Sets New Irish Indoor Shot Put Record
Eric Favors broken his own Irish indoor shot put record with a superb throw of 20.16m finishing third in a top class field in Germany on Sunday. Favors becomes the first Irish athlete to throw over 20 meters indoors for the shot put. This is an improvement on 19.99 metres thrown by Travers on January 20th. Favors had also posted a new record of 20.03 metres with his first throw…
Clohisey Second In Trim 10
Mick Clohisey took second place at the Trim 10 mile on Sunday, clocking 49 minutes 55 seconds. Yared Derese won out in 49.04. Clohisey was followed home by a very large Raheny contingent; Wes O’Brien 55:20, Robert Frewen 56:51, Ian McConkey 58:21, Colm Dunne 60:40, Siobhan Eviston 61:21, Will Walsh 62:24. Gareth Hogan 64:47, Peter Rogan 66:02, Keith Fleming 65:51, Ruairi McArdle 66:11, Terry Keogh 67:05, Gearoid Healy 67:33, Dave…
Golden Indoor Masters
Another good day for the club at the national masters indoor championships. Annette Kealy took gold in the W55 3,000m clocking 10:46.03 with fourth place going to Orla Gormley in 12:20.63. Adrienne Atkins third W55 in 1500m 5:42.63. Atkins also took silver in 800m in 2:43.80. Niall Power third M45 1500 4:53.56 In the men’s 800m M50 Paul Curtayne posted 2:41.02 for sixth place. Curtayne also took fourth place in…