To start out the week Lindie Naughton brings us all of the Irish endurance motion and information from the weekend simply gone (Monday twenty first October).
Storm Ashley mercifully held off till all finishers had been safely house at the 133rd Clonliffe 2-mile on a point-to-point course from Met Eireann Glasnevin to the Gravediggers’ pub, Prospect Sq. on Sunday morning. The race, first held in 1891, is the oldest established highway race in Eire – and maybe even on the earth!
With about 600m to go the eventual results of the lads’s race was nonetheless unsure with Sean Doran main a bunch of six, all of them Clonliffe Harriers members. Tucked in behind Doran was Lorcan Benjacar who with the road in sight sprinted house in 9 minutes 42 secs. Sean Carrig and Mahd Mohammed Egaal in second and third locations had been each given a time of 8:43, whereas fourth and first junior in 9:44 was Matei Ursachi. Sean Doran ended up sixth.
Aine Cotter – first lady 133rd Clonliffe 2-Mile. Photograph: Lindie Naughton
A transparent winner of the ladies’s race in 10: 45 was Aine Cotter (North East Runners). Helena Butterly (Clonliffe Harriers) was second in 11:17 and Sive Brassil, a longtime member of the Irish fashionable pentathlon staff, third in 11:31. A exceptional fourth and first grasp was Anne Gilshinan (Slaney Olympic) who’s the world over 60 1500m champion. She completed in 12:32.
At the Insurgent Run 5km/10km, held at MTU, Bishopstown, Cork, additionally on Sunday Donncha Kiely (Tracton AC) received the10km in 35:15 with Aoife O’Mahoney first lady in 42.23. Winners within the 5km had been Luke Burfield in 17:15 and Shona O’Brien (Cork TC) in 18:55.
A day earlier at the Bere Island 5-mile, Michael Dullea was the general winner in 30 minutes 34 secs, with Lisa Hegarty(Leevale AC) first lady in 31:34. The race, spherical 3 of the Beara Autumn 5-Mile Sequence, concerned taking the ferry over to Bere Island, off the Beara Peninsula. The ultimate race within the collection takes place in Eyeries on Saturday November 9.
First three within the males’s race: Pieere Murchan (134) fiirst; Callum Morgan (97), second; Niall Murphy (937).
Photograph: John Walshe
Cross-country
Fiona Everard (College of Galway) and Pierre Murchan (Trinity School Dublin) had been the winners of the ladies’s and males’s particular person titles at the Irish Universities Cross-Nation Championships hosted by College School Cork at its pancake-flat sports activities grounds in Cork on Saturday (October 20).
This was a second championships on this calendar yr, with occasion shifting from its conventional date in early March to October for the primary time.
First up had been the ladies, with Everard ending in 16 minutes 4 secs. Everard, who runs her membership athletics with Youghal AC, received this title in March 2023, and can be the present All Eire cross-country champion. She’s going to defend her title subsequent month.
Fiona Everard wining the ladies’s race.
Photograph: John Walshe
Amy Greene (DCU/Finn Valley AC) and Hannah Gilliland (Queens/Annadale Striders) completed second and third with each given a time of 16:20. DCU, led by Greene, was the profitable staff on 43 factors, simply two factors forward of UCC’s first staff on 45. Third on 53 factors was Trinity School Dublin, who had been the defending champions..
Murchan, third in these championships final March, had a stable win within the males’s race together with his time of 23:32 placing him eight seconds away from Callum Morgan (Queens Belfast/CNDR AC) with defending champion Niall Murphy (College of Limerick/Ennis TC) third in 23:54. Murchan is a member of Dublin Metropolis Harriers.
College of Galway, with its six counting finishers all within the high fourteen, had been snug winners of staff title. Main them house was Thomas McStay (Galway Metropolis Harriers), fourth in 24:03. A distant second on 101 factors had been the defending champions College of Limerick. Simply six level behind for third was host school College School Cork.
Cross nation elsewhere
At the Bobby Rea Worldwide Cross-Nation held at Billy Neill Nation Park, Danielle Donegan (Tullamore Harriers) received the ladies’s 6000m race in a time of 21:54. Second and first U23 was Rebecca Rossiter (CNDR TC) in 22:06 whereas third and first U20 was Annabel Morrison (Enniskillen RC) in 22:20 Fourth and first W35 was Catherine Whoriskey (Metropolis of Derry Spartans) in 22:47.
First M65 over the identical distance was Laurence Johnston (Belfast Metropolis Harriers) in 24:19.
A transparent winner of the lads’s 8000m was Vincent Mutai in 24:23; Mutai had completed second within the within the Cardiff Half Marathon a fortnight earlier. Nick Griggs (CNDR TC) was second and first U23 in 24:56 and Jamie Battle (Mullingar Harriers) third in 25:33. First U20 was Frank Buchanan (St Michael’s School) in 26:53. Emer McGee (Willowfield Harriers) and Harry McKenzie (Enniskillen RC) received the U18 races
Aoife Carroll (Sportsworld) was the winner of the ladies’s 4000m race with a time of 15:39 on the Leinster Novice Cross-Nation Championships held on the Cow Park, Dunboyne on Sunday (October 20).
Ending behind her had been Mullingar Harriers pair Susan Glennon and Sinead Whitelaw in instances of 15:51 and 15:57. Sportsworld had been snug ladies’s of the staff title forward of Dublin Metropolis Harriers and Mullingar Harriers third. Dublin received the county staff title. Westmeath was second and Meath third.
Successful the lads’s 6000m race was Allan Clarke (St Brigid’s AC) in 20 minutes precisely. Robert Hewison (Kildare AC) was second in 20:21 and Jame Gahan (Kilkenny Metropolis Harriers) third in 20:26. Mullingar Harriers completed first staff forward of Raheny Shamrock and Sportsworld. Dublin, Dearbhla Allen (St Peter’s AC) received the mixed U18/U20 ladies’s race, with Noah Harris (Parnell AC) the lads’s winner.
At the Munster Novice Cross-Nation Championships in Conna, Co Cork, additionally on Sunday, Aoibheann Lawton (Durrus AC) received the ladies’s race comfortably in 15:56. Sarah Mulcahy (St Catherine’s AC) was second in 16:16 and Becky Coghlan (Ennis TC) third in 16:29. Togher AC was first staff forward of Ennis TC and East Cork AC. Cork was the profitable county staff.
Conor Kissane (Killarney Valley AC) received a closely-fought males’s race in 20:44. Only one second behind for second was Mossy Bracken (Moycarkey Coolcroo AC) in 20:45 whereas third in 20:47 was David Meehan (Tulla AC). West Waterford was first membership staff forward of Leevale and Togher. Tipperary was the profitable county staff.
Winners of the U18/20 mixed races had been Gemma Galvin (Ennis Observe Membership) and William Verling (St Nicholas AC).
Off-road
Successful the Wicklow Method Extremely with a time of 13 hrs 22 minutes 58 secs for the 127km course from Kilmashogue Woods in Dublin to Clonegal in Co Carlow on Saturday (October 19) was Keith Lane from Navan, Co Meath. A yr earlier, Lane had received the race when it went within the reverse course.
Lane, a former GAA footballer, first attracted consideration in 2022 when he received the Kerry Method Extremely in a file time. Completed second in 14:24.44 was Enda Cloake (Slaney Olympic), whereas third in 14:44.59 was Alastair Higgins (Dublin Bay RC).
Completed tenth and first lady in 16:33.54 was Aideen Burke (Donore Harriers, W40). Nicola Cleary and second and first W50 in 17:06.34 and Imogen Boaden third and first W45 in 18:05.49. Of the 88 starters at 9pm on Friday night, 67 completed.
Catch-up
Australia-based Jessica Coyne (Leevale AC) ran a private finest 76:33 for ninth place in the Melbourne Half Marathon on October 13. Earlier this yr, Coyne ran 33:42 for 10km, additionally in Melbourne.
