Terry Keogh and Zoey Quinn secured the 2017 Lord Mayor of Raheny Series. The 13 event race series concluded on Tuesday August 29 where Joseph O’Donoghue was the first past the post in nine minutes 57 seconds. Dave Brophy took second place in 10 minutes 11 seconds and Graham O’Dwyer took third place in some 11 seconds later. Zoey Quinn claimed the women’s race for the fifth time this campaign…
Colm Bourke set a new club long jump record as he finished second in the Scottish Championships on Sunday. Bourke jumped 7.38 metres a massive improvement on the club’s record of 7.18 metres to finish second in the championship overall. Bourke equalled the club’s record and his personal best with jump one of 7.18m, his second was measured to 7.42m but had an illegal wind assistance of +3.2. History was…
Mark Kirwan took fifth place in the Frank Duffy 10 Mile, part of the Dublin Marathon race series on Saturay morning in the phoenix park. Kirwan posted 53 minutes and 21 seconds in a race that was won by Clonliffe’s Stephen Scullion in 50 minutes 37 seconds. Other finishers were; John Dunne 56.14, Rory O’Sullivan 58.10, Colm Delaney 60.57,Robert Frewen 61.05, Colm Dunne 61:38, Jody Gilhooley 62:35, Steve Reeves 63.24,…
The 2017 Lord Mayor of Raheny Road Race Series has seen a 45% year-on-year increase in participants as runners fled to Raheny on Tuesday evenings. The series which was launched in 1999 as part of Pat Hooper’s Lord Mayor of Raheny campaign has grown from strength to strength every year. Now the series which includes 13 two mile road races every Tuesday night between June 13 and August 29 has…