Cathal O Donovan ran another pb in the Carrigtwohill 5k on Wednesday, 18th July, 2012. On a nice evening Cathal ran 15.33 to finish third in a competitive race held on a testing course. John Meade was 5th while Cathal O Connell was 9th (1st M45) and Rob Patterson was 10th.

In the ladies race Geraldine O Shea was 4th and Michelle Nolan 5th.
There was a large Barr’s contingent on the night and well done to everyone who ran.

In the Donoughmore 7 mile race on Friday 20th July, 2012 John Meade was 2nd and Cathal O Connell 3rd while Michael Morgan was 5th and Dennis Lyons 10th.
In the ladies race Claire McCarthy was the winner in 42.12 with Karina Teahan finishing 3rd and Gillian Cotter 4th.

Well done to everyone who ran.

It was a very warm day with strong winds at times (especially coming back into town on the last 3 miles) but there were still some fantastic performances with Orla Crosbie producing a fantastic run to finish in 3.17 and Trevor O Neill finally breaking the 3.30 barrier (with a bit to spare) to finish in 3.28. Cathal O Connell (fresh from his 15th place finish 4 weeks ago in Belfast) was 8th on the day in 2.36 and it was great to see Liam Cotter back in action with a great run in 2.53. Martin Curtin and Gerry Cronin also put in brilliant runs to finish in 2.59 and break the magical 3 hour barrier. Well sone to all! Here are the full provisional results:
Pos First Name Surname Country / Club Finish Chiptime Firsthalf SecondHalf
8 588 Cathal O’Connell Marathon Male St Finbarr’s AC 02:36:59 02:36:55 01:17:56 01:19:04
22 1007 Liam Cotter Marathon Male St Finbarr’s AC 02:53:29 02:53:26 01:25:30 01:28:00
41 651 Martin Curtin Marathon Male St Finbarr’s AC 02:59:29 02:59:19 01:29:42 01:29:47
42 800 Gerry Cronin Marathon Male St Finbarr’s AC 02:59:33 02:59:29 01:28:35 01:30:59
88 337 Mary Sweeney Marathon Fem St Finbarr’s AC 03:11:42 03:11:36 01:35:08 01:36:34
98 1141 Col Conway Marathon Fem St Finbarr’s AC 03:12:52 03:12:40 01:33:14 01:39:39
134 340 Orla Crosbie Marathon Fem St Finbarr’s AC 03:17:23 03:17:07 01:39:10 01:38:13
235 975 Trevor O’Neill Marathon Mal St Finbarr’s AC 03:29:02 03:28:32 01:39:22 01:49:40
265 1267 Clodagh McMorrow Marathon Fem St Finbarr’s AC 03:30:42 03:30:11 01:40:00 01:50:42
280 361 Catherine Power Marathon Fem St Finbarr’s AC 03:32:33 03:31:45 01:44:56 01:47:38
319 291 Eddie Barry Marathon Mal St Finbarr’s AC 03:37:50 03:37:21 01:39:54 01:57:56
446 1437 Tony O’Brien Marathon Mal St Finbarr’s AC 03:46:37 03:45:58 01:45:36 02:01:01
475 347 Paul Harrington Marathon Mal St Finbarr’s AC 03:49:08 03:48:34 01:45:02 02:04:07
477 568 Tom Murray Marathon Mal St Finbarr’s AC 03:49:20 03:48:52 01:44:10 02:05:11
485 959 Aiden Henry Marathon Mal St Finbarr’s AC 03:49:48 03:49:19 01:38:59 02:10:50

Well done everyone!

John Meade finished 3rd in this race, which had a huge turnout, in Little Island. Cathal O Connell was 1st M45 and Michael Murphy was 1st M50. In the ladies race Gillian Cotter was 1st F35 and Orla Crosbie was 2nd F40 with Margo Dinan 3rd F40.

In a fantastic performance Martina Kiely was third in the All Ireland Novice Cross Country Championship. In a close fought race Martina was in contention all the way and although edged out of the silver medal position she held on to the bronze. She won a silver however when it was confirmed that our ladies team had come second! With Karina Teahan finishing an excellent 10th, Valerie Vaughan, Louise Keane, Gillian Cotter, Orla Crosbie, Barbara Curran, Una Kennedy and Cait Mehigan all ran very strongly to earn a great All Ireland silver medal. Well done everyone!!

In a mens race that was highly competitive and had a huge field our mens team finished 10th and Cathal O Donovan and Allen Whitaker both scored for the Cork team that won silver. We had 12 men competing on the day which is a huge number. Well done to all of you who ran so well on the day!

Congrats to our men’s and women’s teams who both won the County Intermediate Cross Country Championships today.

In cold and wet conditions Allen Whitaker continued his fantastic cross country season with a hard fought win. Allen won by 5 seconds in the end. Paul Gallagher was third man home and in a fantastic team performance Rory O Sullivan was 4th and Rob Patterson 6th. Eoin O Keeffe was 8th, Cathal Kelly 9th, Daniel Stiegler 12th, Colin Condon 19th, Gerry Cronin 20th and Martin O Reilly 26th so a fantastic all round team performance. Well done everyone!

Our ladies team repeated their county novice feat with a 1,2,3! Martina Kiely, who has had a brilliant cross country season, led them home yet again with Karina Teahan 2nd and Louise Keane 3rd. Gillian Cotter was 5th and Cait Mehigan 21st in another brilliant team performance. Well done to everyone!

Congratulations to everyone who ran so well in difficult conditions on Monday. Warm, humid and windy conditions are not ideal for any race, let alone a marathon. The race looked fantastic on tv however so I hope you all enjoyed it, insofar as you can enjoy a marathon! Enjoy a well earned rest. Not all results are correctly on the Dublin Marathon website yet so this is just what I have so far. They say they will have the issues rectified by Thursday so hopefully I will be able to update this soon. If I missed anyone, e-mail your race number to me at oregan.dave@gmail.com.

  Pos.  Name                  Time
1 36 Cathal O Connell 2.35.00
2 230 Ken Devine 2.58.02
3 326 Denis Lyons 3.02.26
4 355 Neil O’Connell 3.04.26
5 397 Geraldine O’Shea 3.05.50
6 617 Niall O’Herlihy 3.13.07
7 644 Daniel Stiegler 3.13.40
8 750 Mary Sweeney 3.15.58

  788 Paul O’Toole 3.16.44
9 1047 Brendan O’Neill 3.23.04
10 1254 Niamh Cronin 3.25.48
11 1359 Maitiu Baxter 3.28.06
12 1422 Fergal Sargent 3.28.29
13 1603 Anne Wolfe 3.30.26
14 1634 John Fitzgerald 3.31.54
15 1729 Dan Kennedy 3.32.14
16 2261 Trevor O’Neill 3.38.41
17 2455 Martin O’Reilly 3.42.21
18 2846 John Coleman 3.45.20
19 3067 Aiden Henry 3.47.31
20 4390 Siobhan Healy 3.57.59
21 6031 Barry Coleman 4.15.36
22 6445 Colette Daly 4.20.04
23 7814 Mary Mulcahy 4.34.23