Dublin Clubs roundup, 27 April - 04 May 2025
TRACK AND FIELD
AT HOME …
A number of Dublin club athletes travelled to Co Tipperary for the Irish Milers T-F Meet on the newly-opened track at the TUS, Clonmel, on Saturday. Winning the women’s 3000m in a personal best 9 mins 22 secs was Eimear Maher (Dundrum South Dublin AC). Emily Bolton (Clonliffe Harriers) was the winner of the women’s A 1500m in 4:21.35, while Faye Dervan (DCH) was second in the B 1500m in 4:34.40. In a closely-fought men’s A 1500m, Jonas Stafford (UCD AC) finished second in 3:47.91. Other good results came from Daniel Conway (DSD) second in n the men’s B 400m with a time of 51.55, Saoirse Fitzgerald (Lucan Harriers) second in the women’s A 800m in 2:06.63, Finn Woodger (MSB) third in the men’s A 800m in 1:52.5, and junior athlete Charlie O’Neill (Donore Harriers) second in the C 800m in 1:53.78. Winning the men’s D 1500m in 4:06.12 was Aidan Benjacar (Clonliffe Harriers). Over 3000m, Stephen Cashin (Clonliffe Harriers) finished fifth in the men’s A race in 8:45.91, while Ryan O’Neill (Rathfarnham WSAF AC) won the men’s B 3000m in 8:40.40.
Sprinters took centre stage at the opening round of the Dublin Graded Track and Field League held in Santry on Saturday (May 3) — a six-hour marathon. Two rounds of 100m races were divided into four grades with a number of heats in each grade, and variable winds affecting times in all grades. Fastest of the men in both rounds was Bori Akinola (UCD AC) who ran 10.42 secs in the first heat of the opening round and 10.32 in the second race where the wind was just about legal at + 2. Second in both races was Michael Farrelly (Raheny Shamrock AC) with times of 10.58 and 10.40. Ciaran Carthy (DSD AC) won the second grade A heat in 10.62 also running 10.60 in the second round when the wind was over the +2 limit. Lorcan Murphy (DSD AC) won the third grade A heat in 10.47 (+2.2 wind). The women’s races were affected by even stronger winds with Aisling Kelly (UCD) finishing second in the opening round with a time of 11.78 (+4.2). In the second round, with winds at a slightly more moderate +3.2, Kelly was again second in 11.76. Winning the men’s 3000m in 8:19.88 was Colm Rooney (Clonliffe Harriers, M40). A clear winner of the men’s 2000m steeplechase was Jacob Ciomek (Lucan Harriers) in 6:22.57. Rounding out a long day were the 800m races, with Leia Ryan (MSB AC) proving fastest of the women with a time of 2:14.30 in the B race.
In the field, junior athlete Conor Quinn (Crusaders AC) proved the class of field in the shot with a 14.18 effort. Best of the women was multi-eventer Lara O’Byrne (Donore Harriers) with 10.73. Lorcan Murphy (DSD AC) won the men’s high jump with 1.84m. Best in the women’s long jump was Daphni Doulaptsi Teeuwen (Raheny Shamrock) with 5.51.
Full results on the Dublin Athletics live website at http://live.dublinathletics.com/graded-25-1/menu.html.
More pictures are at https://www.flickr.com/photos/lindie/albums/72177720325829461/
… AND AWAY
Rhasidat Adeleke (TallaghtAC) was in action at the Diamond League meet in Shanghai/Keqiao, China, on Saturday (May 3) where she finished second in the women’s 200m in 22.72 secs. Adeleke will join the Irish team at the World Relays in Guangzhou, China, next weekend. Ireland has teams competing in both the men and women’s 4x400m and the mixed 4x400m with the top-14 in each race qualifying for the World Championships in Tokyo next September. Jack Raftery (Donore Harriers) and David Bosch (UCD AC) are also on the squad. Good luck to them all!
In the 5000m, also at the Diamond League meet, Brian Fay (Raheny Shamrock AC) finished tenth with a time of 13:12.10.
In the USA, Elizabeth Ndudi (DSD AC) was second in the long jump in Champaign, Illinois, also on Saturday, with a leap of 6.16m.
A week earlier, Niamh Fogarty (Raheny Shamrock) broke the Irish record for the discus with a throw of 58.40m in ‘Throw Town’, Ramona, Oklahoma - the controversial ‘wind tunnel’ open field venue, designed to make best use of the prevailing winds for discus throwers. Patricia Walsh’s record of 57.60m, set in Santry Stadium on 7 July 1984, had stood for 41 years.
ROADS
Sean Doran (Clonliffe Harriers) was the winner of the Drogheda 10km in Co Louth on Sunday in a time of 32 mins 13 secs. Eoin Gallagher (Skerries AC) finished third in 34:05, while Fiona Roche (Raheny Shamrock AC) was second woman in 36:49.
At the Great Limerick Run Marathon, also on Saturday, Tudor Moldovan (Clonliffe Harriers, M35) finished third in 2:27.55. Sergiu Ciobanu (Clonliffe Harriers, M35) finished second in the associated half marathon in in 69:14 with Colm Turner (Brothers Pearse, M35) fourth in 70:47.
On Saturday, a large groups of athletes from Sportsworld AC travelled to the Leinster Master and Novice Road Championships, held in Gowran, Co Kilkenny, and picked up quite a a few medals. Lorna Sheehan won the novice women’s 3km race in 10 mins 46 secs and helped the team to second place behind Kilkenny City Harriers with just a single point separating the two. Dublin was the second county team. Of the masters, Louise Bruton led the Sportsworld W50 team to second place in the women’s 3km. In the men’s 6km race, the Sportsworld M35 team finished third, led by Paul O’Brien in ninth place. Donore Harriers, with Kenneth Nugent finishing seventh was fourth. Sportsworld was also fourth of the over 50 teams. Dublin finished second of the M35 teams and third in the M50 category. Winning the women’s masters 3km was Rachel Murphy (Plant Based AC, W40) in 11 mins 9 secs. Rathfarnham WSAF, led by Clare Shiels, finished third team.
ULTRA RUNNING
In the Irish championships incorporated into the Anglo-Celtic Plate 100km held at Mallory Park, Kirkby Mallory, near Leicester, England, Matthew Collins (Portmarnock AC, M35) finished second with 7:26.44 and Rob Kelly (Raheny Shamrock AC) third with 7:41.01. Both men and women’s Irish teams finished third overall in the Anglo-Celtic Plate.
