{"id":2291,"date":"2017-11-26T22:24:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T22:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2017-11-26T22:24:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T22:24:04","slug":"kevin-dooney-leads-men-to-all-ireland-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=2291","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Dooney Leads Men To All-Ireland Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Kevin Dooney landed national senior cross country silver as he steered Raheny Shamrock to a second All-Ireland Cross Country title.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Paul Pollock won the national cross country championship finishing just seven seconds ahead of Kevin Dooney who battled hard to hold off Balina\u2019s Hugh Armstrong for silver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Conor Dooney fought through the tough underfoot conditions to take ninth place overall with Eoin Strutt coming home in 13<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup> position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Strutt\u2019s final place saw take silver in the men\u2019s under 23 competition while Mark Kirwan came home in 18<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup> place to give the senior men\u2019s team 42 points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Some 40 seconds later Kilkenny City Harriers fourth man cross the line giving the Kilkenny outfit 69 points and officially confirming Raheny Shamrock as All-Ireland Cross Country Champions!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Not to be forgotten some four places ahead of Kilkeny\u2019s fourth man was Raheny\u2019s fifth man with Cillian O\u2019Leary coming home in a very strong 31<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">st<\/span><\/sup> place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Other strong finishers for the \u201cShamrocks\u201d saw Kevin Moriarty took 53<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">rd<\/span><\/sup>, Brian Leahy 72<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">nd<\/span><\/sup> and Donal Foley 89<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th <\/span><\/sup>Joseph O\u2019Donoghoue 96<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup>, Des Kennedy 102<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">nd<\/span><\/sup> and Michael McMahon 106<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">For the record Dundrum South Dublin took bronze with 78 points while the Raheny Shamrock B team took 12<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup> place in the team competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">All that was left was the club trophy presentation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2017 All Ireland Cross Country Presentation\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y5Rbi7tdigA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">While Kevin Dooney, Conor Dooney, Eoin Strutt and Mark Kirwan were members of the wining Dublin team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">This may be significant, as under Raheny Shamrock proposal\u2019s the Inter-county race in this competition may be retired from 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Brian Fay landed silver in the junior race after a titanic struggle with North Down\u2019s Craig McMeechan. Fay\u2019s place atomically qualifies him for the European Cross Country championship in two week\u2019s time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The junior team was completed with David Brophy 43<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">rd<\/span><\/sup>, Andrew Hyland 99nd and young Dylan Evendan 187<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The Women\u2019s senior continued their progress finishing sixth in the team championship having been led home by Zoe Quinn in 37<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup> place with Karen Crossan 40<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup>, Fiona Stack 47<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup> and Orla Manley 52<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">nd<\/span><\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Laura Brennan ran strong to finish 63<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">rd<\/span><\/sup> overall in a championship won by Cork club Leevale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The junior women\u2019s team were led home by Niamh Corry in 20<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup> place followed two places later by Ailish Murtagh with Lucy Barrett 53<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">rd<\/span><\/sup> and Aoibhinn McGoldrick 61<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">st<\/span><\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The full club results are still yet to be confirmed by Athletics Ireland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">In the under 16 boys race Sean Barrett finished 24<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup> followed by Adam Condon 48<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup>, Sean Flynn 70<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup> and Ren 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