Author Archives: Cian McParland

Dunmanway 10k

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Congrats to Margo Dinan on a fantastic 3rd place in this race last sunday. Margo had still been feeling the effects of the marathon up to last friday but obviously the treatment she was getting that night worked! Gillian Cotter was 4th in another excellent post marathon performance. The results are as follows:

37 Fergal Sargent 42.37
41 Margo Dinan 42.46
42 Darren Mulcahy 42.49
59 Gillian Cotter 43.55
68 Anne Wolfe 44.39

69 Trevor O Neill 44.43
70 Irene Hartigan 44.49
82 Aiden Henry 45.49
112 Claire O Neill 48.18
116 Barry Coleman 48.54
164 Lina Boyd 52.45

Races all over the shop!

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Wow, you turn your back for a few days and next thing there are results appearing from all over the place.

Just as people are recovering from their marathon efforts and their bodies are starting to return to normal (is there such a setting as normal?) there was the 2nd round of the John Buckley Sports graded league, the Glanmire 4 mile race, the Iniscarra 4 mile race and the Ballyclough 5k plus some people excelled in triathlons and the results of the John Buckley 5k (run the week before the marathon) came out too.

So that’s the starting point, pre-marathon when (nearly) everyone was still in one piece the John Buckley 5k attracted a massive field and our own John Meade was 4th and Cathal O Connell was 5th. These performances were obviously perfect warm-ups for the lads given how well they ran in the half marathon and marathon respectively. In the M50 category Michael Murphy was 1st while Willie Hayes was 3rd in M55. In the ladies F35 we had a 1,2,3 with Michelle Nolan 1st, Ann Wolfe 2nd and Gillian Cotter 3rd! Ann Donnelly was 1st in F50. Great performances all round!

In the graded league there were some excellent performances and the club still lies in 3rd position after two rounds. Denis Coughlan was 2nd in the A 800m while David Hickey was 6th. In the B 800m Cathal O Donovan continued his recent good form with a very close 2nd while Declan Murphy also kept his form up with a 5th place finish. Colin Condon and Eamon McEvoy were 6th and 7th respectively. In the discus Tony O Brien was 3rd. The 3rd round is on next Wednesday for those of you who can attend. Details are already on this site.

In the Glanmire 4 mile race last week Ann Donnelly put in a great performance to finish 3rd in the ladies race with Marion Lyons 1st in F55. Willie Hayes improved on his 3rd place finish in the 5k to come 2nd M55 in this race.

In Friday’s Iniscarra 4 mile we had a 1,2 in the ladies and a 2nd and 3rd in the men’s. Geraldine O Shea won the ladies race from Mary Sweeney (incredible after her marathon effort!) while Declan Murphy’s excellent recent form continued with a brilliant 2nd place with Eoin O Keeffe just behind him in 3rd. The results from this are as follows:

2. Declan Murphy 23.22
3. Eoin O Keeffe 23.50
13. Ted O Flynn 26.16
16. Geraldine O Shea 26.57
28 Mary Sweeney 28.32
52 Regina Burton 32.18 (5th lady)
66 Anne Hickey 33.36
67 Kitty Harrington-Buckley 33.44
69 Marion Lyons 34.13

In yesterday’s Ballyclough 5k Mary Murphy was 1st F50 when finishing 41st in 24.44.

Finally, some fantastic triathlon performances as in the Schull triathlon Katie Cooke was 1st and Louise Keane 3rd in the ladies event. Louise certainly made up for not finishing her last Tri due to bike trouble! Neil Creedon finished 13th in this event and won the M50 category. Meanwhile in Cahirciveen Karina Teahan was brilliant in successfully defending her Sive Triathlon title while Aidan O’Gorman was 6th overall. Brilliant performances by all concerned.

Just a reminder that if I have missed anything let me know at oregan.dave@gmail.com

3rd John Buckley Sports Graded T&F Meeting 2011

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 The third in this popular summer series of six graded T&F meetings takes place next Wednesday evening the 22nd of June at 7pm at the CIT Track in Bishopstown. Admission is €5 and the graded events are open to athletes of all levels of ability. Come early.

Upcoming Championships:

Munster Jnr, U23 & Senior T&F Championships 2011
Venue: Sunday 3rd July 2011, CIT-Cork, 10.30am

Cork County Senior T&F Championships 2011
[Re-Scheduled]
Venue: Friday 8th July 2011, CIT-Cork, 7pm

Cork County Jnr & Masters T&F Championships 2011
[Re-Scheduled]
Venue: Friday 15th July 2011, CIT-Cork, 7pm

Cork Marathon

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Well done everyone on the fantastic performances. The weather conditions were near perfect and it resulted in some great achievements in the full, half and team relay events.

In the Marathon Cathal O Connell was 8th overall in 2.33.57 (just 24 seconds off 5th!) and was first in M45. Mary Sweeney was another category winner in F50 and Margo was 3rd in F40. These are all provisional results. We are also waiting on confirmation that Margo broke the world marathon talking record! 🙂

In the half marathon John Meade came 2nd with a great performance in 74.10. James Cosgrave was 4th overall and was 1st M40 in 76.39. Claire McCarthy was 2nd in the ladies half in a time of 80.48 finishing 9th overall. This was another brilliant performance from Claire who is showing some great form at the moment. Orla Crosbie put in an excellent performance to finish 2nd F40 in a time of 1.36.51. These are also provisional results.

In the team relay Martin McCarthy was part of the first team to finish while St. Finbarr’s AC floaters were 8th overall in 2.45.20. The team was made up of Patrick Rahilly, Karina Teahan, Neil Murphy, Brian russell and Aidan O’Gorman.

Here are the provisional results. If I missed anyone let me know as I had to go through the program to extract the Barr’s runners and the club wasn’t listed for everyone.

Here are the provisional marathon results:

Pos Bib Name Category Finish Chiptime 13 Miles

8 756 Cathal O’Connell M45 02:34:00 02:33:57 01:15:59 1st M45
24 410 Ivan Slovak M35 02:53:11 02:53:08 01:23:20
56 752 Gerard Cronin M40 03:03:20 03:03:17 01:28:53
57 1299 Cornelius Marshall M35 03:03:20 03:03:10 01:32:06
114 1368 Paul O’Toole M45 03:14:30 03:14:21 01:36:06
129 820 Paul Duggan M40 03:15:57 03:15:54 01:26:25
139 426 Eamonn Carroll M45 03:17:55 03:17:47 01:32:50
149 668 Gillian Cotter F35 03:18:49 03:18:42 01:36:55
153 695 Margo Dinan F40 03:19:20 03:19:13 01:37:45 3rd F40
177 1003 Mary Sweeney F50 03:21:16 03:21:08 01:37:45 1st F50
194 902 Dan Kennedy M55 03:23:04 03:23:02 01:37:35
216 463 Col Conway F40 03:26:13 03:25:50 01:40:21
241 1080 Tom Murray M35 03:28:06 03:27:42 01:42:02
303 598 Trevor O’Neill M35 03:31:53 03:31:20 01:42:07
314 594 Anne Wolfe F35 03:33:10 03:32:52 01:43:20
386 466 Martin O’Reilly M35 03:39:31 03:39:09 01:44:12
450 656 John Coleman M40 03:44:17 03:42:24 01:51:18
456 347 Irene Eighan FO 03:44:26 03:42:52 01:52:25
513 573 Tom Cuddihy M40 03:47:59 03:47:09 01:51:20
514 1588 Cedric Duche MO 03:48:07 03:47:23 01:45:38
570 708 John Gately M45 03:52:03 03:51:09 01:52:21
589 1494 Claire O Neill FO 03:53:23 03:51:48 01:53:45
594 1347 John Sheppard MO 03:53:36 03:53:12 01:45:18
602 635 Aiden Henry M40 03:54:01 03:53:28 01:45:47
711 1081 Paul Forde M40 03:59:13 03:58:49 01:46:10
760 1405 Micheál Ó Crualaoi M45 04:01:44 04:01:20 01:58:42
763 759 Ronan McCarthy MO 04:01:51 04:01:14 01:58:05
776 875 Mary Mulcahy F45 04:03:06 04:01:36 02:00:50
833 903 Kitty Harrington-Buckley F45 04:08:17 04:07:12 01:59:51
845 285 Amanda Stavrou F50 04:10:13 04:09:02 02:00:44
872 487 Colette Daly F40 04:13:23 04:12:42 01:58:12
961 221 Colin Mc Taggart M45 04:21:57 04:20:44 02:00:44

Here are the provisional half marathon results:

Pos Bib Name Cat Cat Pos Finish Chip
2 3111 John Meade MO 1 01:14:10 01:14:09
4 3098 James Cosgrave M40 1 01:16:39 01:16:37 1st M40
9 3145 Claire McCarthy F 1 01:20:48 01:20:47 1st F
40 2652 Dave O’Regan M40 8 01:30:25 01:30:20
63 3019 Killian O’Leary MO 19 01:33:43 01:33:32
87 2138 Orla Crosbie F40 1 01:36:59 01:36:51 1st F40
92 2693 Kathleen Kelly F35 4 01:37:14 01:37:00
103 2722 Rachael O’Callaghan F35 6 01:38:49 01:38:44
144 2636 Jamie Griffin MO 46 01:42:16 01:41:54
208 2421 Eileen Buckley F45 5 01:45:42 01:44:39
280 2221 Una Kennedy FO 23 01:49:31 01:48:54
285 2977 Finbarr Coleman M35 44 01:49:37 01:48:58
291 2512 Rebecca McEvoy FO 27 01:49:47 01:49:36
437 2774 Moire O’Connell FO 55 01:56:57 01:56:27
447 2726 Daithi Merrick M40 63 01:57:23 01:56:34
449 2777 Marlene Enright FO 59 01:57:25 01:56:34
488 2805 Oonagh Horgan FO 66 01:58:18 01:57:33
493 2508 Clodagh Carroll FO 68 01:58:32 01:57:29
507 2727 Leonie Merrick F40 24 01:58:51 01:57:59
606 2144 Anne Hickey F45 15 02:03:06 02:02:56
639 2577 Lina Boyd F45 17 02:04:52 02:04:43
687 2529 Kate Hennessy FO 117 02:08:10 02:06:43
722 2681 Michelle Manning FO 132 02:11:05 02:10:14
851 2660 Jean Ryan F50 15 02:20:20 02:19:04

John Buckley Graded Track & Field League

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There were some top performances in the first meeting recently in CIT.

Cathal O Donovan won the B 3000 metres leading from start to finish. Our own Kevin Coleman started to reel Cathal in towards the finish but a final kick by Cathal meant he held on to win by 2 seconds. Michael Murphy, Stephen Geoghegan and Martina Kiely made it a Barr’s top 5. Behind them Michelle Nolan, Eddie Barry, Orla Crosby and Tony O Brien filled 8th to 11th positions. Cathals performance came just a day after finishing 2nd in a cycling time trial so a great two days for him!

In other events, Barbara Curran was 5th in the 200m, the mens team were 4th in the 4*400m while the ladies were 1st in the same event. Declan Murphy ran strongly to finish 13th in the A 3000m. Daithi Merrick and Tony O Brien were 3rd and 4th respectively in the shot and 2nd and 4th in the 56 WFD (no idea – I’m guessing a discus but could just as easily be darts?!)

Overall the club lies in 3rd place after this round.

10k Results

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Congratulations on some great 10k results to Kevin Coleman who was 4th in Bandon in 37.50 and to Karina Teahan who was 2nd in Mungret, Co Limerick in 40.49 recently.

Post Marathon Drinks, Clancy’s Bar

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Post Marathon Drinks, Clancy’s Bar

Pack up yur troubles in yur owl Tin Hat and smile, smile, smile

BARRS Member(s),

The best of luck to all BARRS members participating in the upcoming June 6th Marathon, half marathon and team relay. Remember to wear your BARRS colours and you’ll get great support along the way. Come along to Clancy’s Bar for post marathon drinks at 8pm.

How to get to Clancy’s:
With your back to the HMV music store, cross Patrick Street, go down Princes Street, cross Oliver Plunket Street and Clancy’s Bar & Restaurant is on the left.

Marathon Results

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Just a couple of marathon results that I am aware of.

John Sheppard completed Boston in 3.52.42 and less than 2 weeks later ran a personal best in Limerick in 3.39.09. Great stuff! Hopefully he might take a break for a while now!

Also in Limerick another man running a personal best was Niall O Herlihy who knocked 18 minutes off his time for 3.14.11 and that despite running the bulk of the race on his own!

If you know of any other marathon performances please let me know and I’ll get them up on the site as these are just ones that I know of.

E-mail oregan.dave@gmail.com

Babies & The Ballyandreen 5

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Congratulations to some members who recently became parents. Martin and Claire McCarthy welcomed their 3rd boy and Claire celebrated by winning the Ballyandreen 5! Patrick O Rahilly became a dad for the first time and Eoin Shanaghy completed the recent additions also becoming a dad for the first time, both to baby girls.

The performances in this were excellent with John Meade 2nd and Paul Duggan 6th. Claire McCarthy was 8th overall and was 1st lady home. Declan Murphy put in a great performance to come 12th while Eoin O Keeffe fresh from his 6 months in central and south America showed he hasn’t lost any pace with his time of 30.34. Patrick O Rahilly who is just back from a long injury was just 3 seconds behind Eoin. The full results are as follows:

2 0:27:24 MEADE, John St. Finbarrs AC M 05:28.7 89 2
6 0:28:58 DUGGAN, Paul St. Finbarrs AC M40 05:47.5 298 6
8 0:29:02 MCCARTHY, Claire St. Finbarrs AC F 05:48.3 295 8
12 0:29:29 MURPHY, Declan St. Finbarrs AC M 05:53.7 201 12
33 0:30:34 O’KEEFFE, Eoin St. Finbarrs AC M 06:06.7 396 33
35 0:30:37 RAHILLY, Patrick St. Finbarrs AC M 06:07.3 37 35
51 0:31:18 GEOGHEGAN, Stephen St. Finbarrs AC M 06:15.5 294 51
69 0:32:06 O’TOOLE, Paul St. Finbarrs AC M45 06:25.1 183 69
79 0:32:27 O’SULLIVAN, Bernard St. Finbarrs AC M 06:29.3 120 79
88 0:32:42 SARGENT, Fergal St. Finbarrs AC M 06:32.3 439 88
166 0:35:15 O’NEILL, Trevor St. Finbarrs AC M 07:02.8 68 166
175 0:35:35 KENNEDY, Dan St. Finbarrs AC M55 07:06.8 724 175
189 0:36:04 KELLY, Kathleen St. Finbarrs AC F35 07:12.6 62 189
193 0:36:09 O’BRIEN, Tony St. Finbarrs AC M50 07:13.6 315 193
212 0:36:39 BARRY, Eddie St. Finbarrs AC M55 07:19.6 417 212
229 0:37:08 COLEMAN, John St. Finbarrs AC M40 07:25.4 75 229
241 0:37:28 BUCKLEY, Eileen St. Finbarrs AC F45 07:29.4 306 241
267 0:38:15 EIGHAN, Irene St. Finbarrs AC F 07:38.8 178 267
296 0:39:09 COLEMAN, Barry St. Finbarrs AC M 07:49.6 76 296
319 0:40:03 CREEDON, Hilary St. Finbarrs AC F 08:00.4 452 319
332 0:40:50 MULCAHY, Mary St. Finbarrs AC F45 08:09.8 249 332
380 0:42:54 MANNING, Michelle St. Finbarrs AC F 08:34.6 61 380
389 0:43:19 MANNING, Denis St. Finbarrs AC M40 08:39.6 255 389
393 0:43:33 CURRAN, Barbara St. Finbarrs AC F 08:42.4 220 393
412 0:44:35 GRIFFIN, Hazel St. Finbarrs AC F 08:54.8 221 412
414 0:44:38 WALSH, Anne St. Finbarrs AC F45 08:55.4 317 414

Finally if I have missed anyone’s results I do apologise. If you want to let me know of any results in various races, or indeed anything relating to club members you can e-mail me at oregan.dave@gmail.com and I will put them up on the web site