The Leinster secondary schools cross country took place on Wednesday February 8th in Santry Demesne. Qualifiers from schools all over north, east, west, and south Leinster took to the line to represent their schools, with over 20 young Shamrocks among them. The top-15 individuals in each race, plus the top three school teams qualify to represent their schools in the All-Ireland schools cross country in Waterford on Saturday March 11th….
Huge Medal Haul For Young Shamrocks
The first weekend in February was a busy one for 34 Raheny Shamrock teenagers. The national indoor arena in Abbotstown was the venue for the Dublin indoor juvenile championship. A very familiar setting to most of the teens, having been our training ground of late as we await the re-opening of Morton Stadium this spring. Track action started with the 200m. We had four athletes take part in the u16…
Favors Sets New Irish Indoor Shot Put Record
Eric Favors broken his own Irish indoor shot put record with a superb throw of 20.16m finishing third in a top class field in Germany on Sunday. Favors becomes the first Irish athlete to throw over 20 meters indoors for the shot put. This is an improvement on 19.99 metres thrown by Travers on January 20th. Favors had also posted a new record of 20.03 metres with his first throw…
Clohisey Second In Trim 10
Mick Clohisey took second place at the Trim 10 mile on Sunday, clocking 49 minutes 55 seconds. Yared Derese won out in 49.04. Clohisey was followed home by a very large Raheny contingent; Wes O’Brien 55:20, Robert Frewen 56:51, Ian McConkey 58:21, Colm Dunne 60:40, Siobhan Eviston 61:21, Will Walsh 62:24. Gareth Hogan 64:47, Peter Rogan 66:02, Keith Fleming 65:51, Ruairi McArdle 66:11, Terry Keogh 67:05, Gearoid Healy 67:33, Dave…