Mark Kirwin took second place in the Cork City Marathon posting two hours 25 minutes 18 seconds behind Gary O’Hanlon who won out in 2:21.10. Brian Leahy came home ninth overall in two 37 minutes and two seconds. While Tommy Crampton posted 3.27.40. In the half marathon Cillian O’Leary a previous winner of the Cork City Marathon took second place in 69 minutes 18 seconds. Sergui Ciobanu winning out in…
The 2018 All-Ireland schools track and field championship saw Raheny Shamrock athlete’s collect two gold, three silver and a bronze medal. St. Fintan’s High School Sutton Michael Farrelly took 200 metre gold and 100 metre silver in the intermediate boy’s grade. Sean L’Estrange made it a Fintan’s 1-2 in the 200 metres taking silver. Sean Maher throw of 55.48 metres grabbed gold in the Intermediate hammer for the St.David’s Artane…
Mick Clohisey took fifth place at the České Budějovice half-marathon in the Czech Republic posting 65 minutes 40 seconds. The race was won outright by Britain’s Luke Traynor in 63 minutes 40 seconds. Clohisey was just 32 seconds off third place which was taken by Austrian Valentin Pfeil. Meanwhile, at the Oordegem track meet in Belgium, Sean O Driscoll set a new personal best of 22.09 seconds in the 200m…
The 2018 Lord Mayor Road Race series was launched in Raheny today. The series of 13 “Two Mile” road races begins on Tuesday June 12 and runs every Tuesday until August 28th. All races start at 8pm on the Wades Avenue / Watermill drive course, a course which is used for the National Road Relay championships. The second race in the series, the “Tommy Lynam Mid-Summer race” takes place on…