Ryan Creech and Shona Heaslip claimed the 2024 AXA Raheny as a record crowd took to the Raheny streets. The 40th edition broke the attendance record the AXA Raheny 5 which had stood since 2020. Creech retained his AXA Raheny 5 title with a gun to tape performance clocking 23 minutes 58 seconds having broken clear before the one mile mark. Creech was just five seconds off his time in…
Eric Favors set a new Irish Indoor Shot Put record in Astana on Saturday morning. Favors threw a best of 20.18m at the World Indoor Tour meet in the Kazakhstan capital to add two centimetres to his previous record that he had set in February 2023. Meanwhile, Sophie Becker placed third in the 400 metres in 53.19. A very good start to the 2023 indoor year. Meanwhile at the AAI…
Kate Purcell was first home at the Leinster masters cross country as she led the Raheny O/35 team to gold. Purcell won the race outright taking O/40 gold with Fiona Roche third overall taking O/40 bronze. Purcell, Roche and Sharon Keilthy combined to land the O/35 team title. Also competing strongly were Aoife Nagle (45th overall). Jenny Colbert (71st), Patricia O’Cleirigh (73rd), Jean Dunne (81st), Deirdre O’Dwyer (84th) and Angela…
Michael Farrelly and Tara Meier took silver medals at the national under-23 indoor championship in TUS international arena Athlone. Meier took 60m hurdles silver clocking 8.82 seconds, just behind Arabella Adekoya of St. Laurence O’Toole in 8.71 seconds. Meier had posted 8.85 seconds to make the final finishing second in her heat behind Adekoya. Farrelly took silver in the 60 metres posting 6.95 seconds. Farrelly was just behind Metro’s NKemjika…