Brian Fay and Eric Favors picked up the Endurance Athlete and Field Athlete of the Year awards at the national Athletics Awards. Fay landed the endurance athlete of the year after breaking Alister Craig’s 25-year-old national 5,000m record. Fay also won the national 5,000m championship and competed in the World Championships. While Eric Favors landed the field athlete of the year, setting a national a new national indoor shot put record…
The 2023-24 Winter league begins on Wednesday November 29. There are two rounds before Christmas with round one on November 29 over three miles. The second race, round two takes place two week’s later on December 13 is over two miles. The series resumes in 2024 with a three mile race on Wednesday January three. All races begin at 8pm. The full schedule is; Entry is €7 per race or…
Brian Fay has been selected for the Irish senior men’s team for the 2023 European Cross Country Championship. Fay finished fifth at last weekend’s national senior cross country championship and impressed the selectors to make the Irish team for Brussels. This will be Fay’s third European senior cross country, having also competed at junior and U23 grade. The full Irish team announcement is available here. Best wishes to Brian and…
Brian Fay took fifth place in the National cross country championship in Gowran on a day for real cross country running. Tough underfoot conditions made it a very different race with Fay taking fifth place about 50 metres behind winner Cormac Dalton of Mullingar Harriers. Fay led the men’s team to sixth place overall. The team was Daniel Stone (47th), Stephen Fay (51st) and Shane Spring (60th). It’s very worth…