John Dunne landed the Leinster masters title helping the master’s men to team gold as intermediate men took silver in Dunboyne.
Ian McConkey took ninth place with Wes O’Brien 12th and Graham O’Dwyer just one place behind followed by Will Walsh in 18th place to give the men’s team 52 points taking silver behind Tullamore harriers with 33 points.
In the women’s race Orla Manley took a very impressive ninth place with Kate O’Dwyer 16th, Aine Crimin 17th and Hannah Craddock 20th.
That gave the women’s team 62 points, just eight points behind Sportsworld who took silver ahead of St Senan’s on countback.
Kate Martin and Laura Brennan also ran well to finish 28th and 31st in a competitive races.
In the Masters women race Zoe Quinn was first home in 10th place followed by Lorraine Byrne 24th, Elaine O’Hagan McNulty 33rd and Louise Keogh 36th giving the masters women’s team 63 points a heart breaking two points off bronze.
Mary Walsh finished 43rd with Rachel Ormrod 49th, Adrienne Atkins 53rd, Jenny Colbert 60th, Orla Lambe 62nd, Nora Byrne 67th and Brighid Smyth 88th.
The women’s M50 team of Adrienne Atkins, Nora Byrne, Brighid Smyth collected bronze with 34 points just behind silver medallists Tullamore Harriers with 28 points while Mullingar Harriers took gold with 22 points.
John Dunne won the masters men’s race outright and gold M35 gold with Ian Conroy second overall and silver medallist M35.
Des Kennedy took fifth place overall and gold in the M45 category with Michael McMahon 12th overall to give the men’s team a straight forward team gold.
Ian McConkey took 62nd place, Donald Quinn 84th, Brian Kelly 93rd, Damien Martin 114, Paul Hyland 121, David Kirwan 141, Peter Smyth 152.
The masters 50’s team of Donald Quinn, Brian Kelly and Damien Martin were just eight points off the bronze medal.
Elsewhere on a busy weekend Kieran Kelly helped Ireland to fourth in the 4x1km mixed relay at the Great Edinburgh cross country meet.
Kelly was partnered with Eoin Everard, Laura Crowe and Kerry O’Flaherty.
