To celebrate Orla Comerford’s success at the Para-World Athletics European Championships, the club will host an evening open to all members. This social evening is open to all members and takes place on Wednesday August 29th in Raheny GAA club at 8.30. All are welcome to help celebrate in what was a brilliant achievement.
Brian Leahy took fifth place in the Quinlan Cup in Tullamore in 72 minutes 35 seconds. Clonliffe’s David Flynn followed up his national half-marathon win, adding the Quinlan Cup which doubles as the Leinster half-marathon in 68:44. The team finished fifth in the mixed team event, Leahy followed by Terry Keogh 82:58, Eric Champ 82:58 and Davey Duane 85:21 Angela Charlton posted 1:55.10. On what was a low key racing…
Eamonn Dunne won the Ardgillan in 18:40, while Dermot J Gorman won out in Tramore in 16:56. John Dunne took third place in Porterstown in 17:48. Witek Lochowski took third place in Fr Collins Park in 19:33 with Rachel Markey posting 29:00. In Malahide, Vinny Mulvey won out in 16 minutes 53 seconds, Annette Kealy took fourth place in 18:26 with Ross Lundy posting 22:01 and Eimear O’Keeffe 22:17. Robert Frewen…
Orla Comerford has won her second bronze medal of the World Para Athletics European Championships in the T13 100m final. Comerford had just one hundredth of a second on German Janne Sophie Engeleiter for bronze, finishing in 12.82 seconds. Leilia Adzhametova of the Ukraine won out in 11.93 seconds with Portugal’s Carolina Duarte taking silver in 12.59. The order on the podium mirrored that of Wednesday’s 200m final, with Comerford…