The Munster Senior & Masters T&F Champs take place at the CIT Track on Sunday, June 15th. The closing date for entries is June 6th. Please text or email your entries to the Competition Secretary.
The second John Buckley Sports T&F Meeting of 2014 kicks off at the CIT Track on Wednesday, May 28th, at 7.30pm. This is a programme of six graded meetings for Athletes male and female over 16 years on the day of competition; full details are available on the Cork AAI website. These graded meetings are open to athletes of all levels of ability.
Entry is €5 on the night and you can try as many events as you like. This evening’s menu includes a 3000m (7½ laps of the track) test for middle distance runners, while the relays should see quartets of runners post some very impressive Mile times. Track events will, if necessary, be divided into separate races to ensure they are suitable for all standards.
The Cork County Masters T&F Championships 2014 take place at the CIT Track on Sunday, May 18th. The closing date for entries is May 15th. Please text or email your entries to the Competition Secretary.
County Masters T&F Champs 2014
The John Buckley Track & Field League of 2014 kicks off at the CIT Track on Monday, May 12th, at 7.30pm. This is a programme of six graded meetings for Athletes male and female over 16 years on the day of competition; full details are available on the Cork AAI website. These graded meetings are open to athletes of all levels of ability.
Entry on the first night is free to club members – just turn up and enter. Track events will, if necessary, be divided into separate races to ensure they are suitable for all standards. Later in the series, we plan to incorporate a club championship race with prizes for the winners at the different grades. To this end, we’ll use the results of the MILE run on the first evening to grade athletes for the club championship.
Athletes performing consistently over the series are also in with a chance of winning a Cash prize at the next County Board International Awards Night. Club member Niamh Roe was a deserved winner of just such a prize at the 2014 Awards night in January.
Round 1 of the National Inter Club Track & Field League of 2014 takes place at the Waterford Regional Sports Centre & Sligo IT on Sunday the 18th of May. The club has entered a Men’s and Women’s team in Division 1 of the League. The venue will, in all likelihood, be Waterford. Interested athletes should consider the events on offer below and contact the respective Team captains as soon as possible.
The National League Rounds 1, 2 & the Final will consist of full programme with both Men and Women counting the best 15 events. Qualification for the Final is by the total number of points scored over rounds 1 & 2. Eight teams Men and Women will progress to the Division 1 Final. In the event of a tied position for the Final, the total number of winning positions i.e. 1st , 2nd, 3rd etc. will be the deciding factor. Each athlete may take part in two track and one field event, or two field and one track event, plus relays on each day.
Points Scoring System (1st to 8th): 9,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
This timetable is designed as a guide of event times. Events may run ahead of schedule.
The Athletics Ireland Intermediate & Masters Cross Country Championships took place in Dunboyne, Co. Meath on 23rd of February 2014. It was a great day out for the BARRS ladies, who picked up a wad of Silver medals at Intermediate and Masters levels in the Inter Club and Inter County competitions. Despite a blustery day, the rain held off and ground conditions were more or less ideal for Cross Country running.
The ladies O/35 team featuring Denise Twohig, Anne Wolfe, Gillian Cotter, Ann-Marie Healy, Kitty Buckley and Eileen Buckley finished 6th in the O/35 Inter Club competition, while Ann-Marie Healy (#25) and Gillian Cotter (#28) helped the Cork team to a Bronze in the O/35 Inter Country competition.
Pride of place goes to Karina Teahan, Sinead Paley, Katherine Cashell, Margo Dinan, Ann-Marie Holland, Ailise McNulty and Rebecca McEvoy for their great performance in taking the Silver mdeal in the Intermediate Inter Club competition. Moreover, Sinead Paley, Katherine Cashell, Margo Dinan and Ann-Marie Holland were the first four to score on the Cork team thus garnering themselves another Silver medal in the Intermediate Inter Country competition.
The quartet of Mary Murphy, Marion Lyons, Frances Byrne and Mary Sweeney also took home Silver medals in the ladies O/50 Inter Club category, while Mary Sweeney’s performance garnered her a Bronze medal in the O/50 Individual category rounding of a very successful day out at the races for the ladies.
Our Masters men didn’t fare quite so well. A mounting casualty list left them unable to field teams in either the M35 or M50 category and there wasn’t enough time to rearrange entries on the day. Nevertheless, Cathal O’Connell could console himself with a Bronze medal in the O/50 Individual category, while Allen Whitaker, Cornelius Marshall, Trevor Woods and Eamonn McEvoy all finished well up the field in their respective categories. Our Intermediate men had a bit of an off-day. You could say they just didn’t turn up for the races.
The day passed off without incident and everybody was safely back home before 9pm. Well done to the BARRS ladies for their great performance in winning Silver at National Intermediate level and here’s to more success for the club in the future!
This event takes place on Sunday March 2nd and is hosted by Midleton A.C. The Masters categories are Men O35 & O50 and Women O35 & O45. Eligible athletes can compete at Novice and Masters, but Masters athletes can only score on one Masters team. Novice applies to all athletes who do not have an individual medal at a Novice Roads Championship.
This 4M race takes the route of the popular Midleton A.C. 5M road race. The Women start at 13:30 followed immediately thereafter by the Men. The Midleton Park Hotel will be race H.Q. with some light post-race refreshments. Please text your entries to the Competition Secretary by the closing date of 25-Feb-2014.
Well done to all who took part in the Dungarvan 10 yesterday. In what were horrific conditions, particularly early on there were some great performances and a lot of category prize winners. We had 3 men under 55 minutes, 11 under 60 minutes and there were 34 Barr’s athletes under 70 minutes.
Anne Marie Holland and Niamh Roe were 5th and 6th ladies home while Cathal O Connell (O50), Willie Hayes (O55) and Mick Dunne (O65) were men’s category winners and Margo Dinan (O45) and Mary Sweeney (O50) were ladies category winners. Ken Devine was 2nd (O45) and Sinead Paley 2nd (O40).
14 MEADE JOHN Senior 00:54:21
16 MARSHALL CORNELIUS Senior 00:54:39
19 O Shea ALEXANDER Male 00:54:52
29 O’CONNELL CATHAL O/50 00:56:28
33 MORGAN MICHAEL Senior 00:56:50
51 CORBETT MICHAEL Senior 00:57:57
52 LYONS DENNIS Senior 00:58:01
64 MURNANE CHRIS Senior 00:58:59
74 DEVINE KEN O/45 00:59:28
80 CURTIN MARTIN Senior 00:59:37
88 KELLEHER JOE 0/40 00:59:58
99 HOULIHAN MICHAEL Senior 01:00:55
101 BUTLER DAVID Senior 01:01:00
118 HOLLAND ANNMARIE 0/35 01:01:59
133 O’Mahony RUAIRI Senior 01:02:48
142 ROE NIAMH Senior 01:02:58
153 FIELD EOIN 0/40 01:03:15
156 GEOGHEGAN STEPHEN 0/40 01:03:18
162 O’Sullivan JOHN Senior 01:03:26
170 SARGENT FERGAL Senior 01:03:42
180 HARTE MARTIN Senior 01:03:53
192 DOLLARD GLENN Senior 01:04:16
197 MULLINS BRIAN Senior 01:04:33
199 CASEY GARRETT 0/40 01:04:35
200 PALEY SINEAD 0/40 01:04:35
206 O’Reilly MARTIN 0/40 01:04:47
242 NOONAN ALAN Senior 01:05:42
277 GOULD DENIS Senior 01:07:14
282 DINAN MARGO 0/45 01:07:25
289 SWEENEY MARY O/50 01:07:36
292 CRONIN NIAMH 0/35 01:07:40
299 HAYES WILLIE 0/55 01:07:51
315 O Regan DAVE O/45 01:08:16
411 VAUGHAN VALERIE Senior 01:09:50
437 COTTER GILLIAN O/40 01:10:42
445 O Mullain MICHEAL Senior 01:10:56
518 MURPHY ESTHER O/40 01:13:12
679 DUNNE MICHAEL 0/65 01:16:45
694 MC Nulty AILISE Senior 01:17:01
706 COLEMAN BARRY Senior 01:17:19
784 O’Flynn ESME Senior 01:18:26
830 O Neill CLAIRE Senior 01:19:08
852 NOLAN MICHELLE 0/40 01:19:29
1080 MULCAHY MARY 0/50 01:24:26
1183 O’ Connell KELLY Senior 01:27:22
1350 MULLINS CLAIRE 0/35 01:32:43
1535 COLEMAN JOHN O/45 01:44:38
The National Intermediate & Masters Cross Country Championships 2014 will be held in Dunboyne, Co. Meath on Sunday 23rd of February. The venue is just off the M50 Dublin orbital, so we’ll be heading up on the day. If the numbers warrant it, we’ll hire a bus to transport athletes and supporters. So, please highlight the date in your diaries and inform the Competition Secretary if you intend to go. This is the last major XC event of the season and an opportunity to win individual and, or team medals at National level.
The Munster Juvenile Inter-County Relays, Junior and Senior XC Championships will be held on Sunday 12th January 2014 in Deansgrove, Cashel, Co. Tipperary. The Juvenile Relays will start at 11.30am followed by the Junior Women, Junior Men, Senior Women and Senior Men’s races in that order.
Paste coordinates 52.528134, -7.879976 into Google Maps or set SatNavs to +52° 31′ 41.28″, -7° 52′ 47.91″
From Cork, take the M8 and bypass Cashel for Exit 7 (Cashel-Dundrum). At the Exit roundabout, take the first left (R639) back towards Cashel. The venue is about 1km from Exit 7 on the right.
Bring a dry change of clothes and umbrellas! Best of Luck to the Cork and BARRS team selections.