A special presentation will be made to the national senior cross country championship team this evening at 8.30pm in Raheny GAA Club. The club landed its first men’s national senior cross country championship in November and per Athletics Ireland rules, the four scoring members of the team were presented with medals. Under the club president Paddy Noonan’s instruction and after discussion with Athletics Ireland, all members of the team which…
Men’s track and field captain Simon Devenney led the intermediate cross country team to a delightful bronze in Dunboyne. Devenney has been making a solid return from injury came home in ninth position some 90 seconds behind race winner Stephen Conroy of Celbridge. Ian McConkey took 12th place with Davey Duane 16th and Rory O’Sullivan 20th to give the men’s team a total of 57 points and bronze medals. Kildare…
John Dunne landed Leinster masters gold leading the club to team gold on another glorious day for the master’s teams. Dunne won outright over a testing course in Dunboyne just ahead of Rathfarnham’s Shane O’Neil with Ian Conroy a stride or two behind in third place. The result saw Dunne win the M1 category outright with Conroy collecting silver. Dunne and Conroy combined with David Kirwan (13th) and Ciaran McCarthy…
The men’s track and field team made a solid start to the indoor track and field season finishing round one with 25 points. Eoin Strutt took second place in the 800 metres in 1.55.69 just 38 hundredths of a second behind Ennis Track’s Damian Landers. Mark Smyth collected eight points taking third place in the 60 metres in 7.12 seconds. Matt Cotter picked up four points finishing seventh with a…