Dublin Clubs Roundup , 10 - 15 June 2025

TRACK AND FIELD ABROAD

Rhasidat Adeleke (Tallaght AC) began her build-up to September’s World Championships by lining out in two Diamond League 400m races. First up was theBislett Games In Oslo, Norway, on Thursday where she finished fourth in her first individual outdoor 400m of the season with a time of 50.42.  Four days later, on Sunday, at the Stockholm Diamond League meet in Sweden, she finished sixth in the 400m, with a marginally slower time of 50.48. Winning both races was newcomer Isabella Whittaker from the USA. The Diamond League now takes a break until the Meeting Herculis on Friday, July 11, again with the women’s 400m part of the programme.

Closer to home, Efrem Gidey (Clonliffe Harriers), in his first race since winning the European 10,000m Cup three weeks ago, was competing in the UK Athletics British 10,000m Championships in Birmingham. He finished second in 28:09.36 - well off the 27:40.47 he ran to clinch the European title.

TRACK AND FIELD - HOME 

Despite monsoon-like conditions as the day progressed, the full programme was completed at the fifth Dublin Graded Track and Field meet held at the DSD Track on Tibradden Road on Sunday (June 15). First up and escaping the rain were the 3000m runners, with Kevin Byrne (Newbridge AC) winning the men’s A race in 8:59.67 and Aine O’Connor (Ratoath AC) best of the women with a time of 10:22.33. Winning the men’s B race was Ronan Dunphy (Skerries AC). In the 200m series of races, the women also escaped a drenching. Mollie O’Reilly of host club DSD was a clear winner of the women’s A race in 23.45 secs, with her clubmate Aodh Forde winning the B race in 25.70. Not so lucky were the men, although Marcus Lawler (Clonliffe Harriers) clocked a solid time of 21.13 secs when winning the fastest of the three men’s A races. 

Over 800m, Sean Healy (DSD) finished third in the A race in 1:55.83 while Conrad Latham (Raheny Shamrock) won the men’s B race. Robyn Carey (Lusk AC) was second in the women’s A race in 2:15.50. All the 800m athletes got a thorough soaking, as did the high jumpers, although before the deluge had everyone running for cover, former Irish basketball international Lorcan Murphy (DSD AC) managed to soar over 1.90m. Murphy was a high jumper in his pre-basketball days and is training for his first decathlon next month. More pictures are at https://www.flickr.com/photos/lindie/albums/72177720326878099.

*Morton Stadium is the venue for the sixth Dublin Graded Meet on Wednesday June 25 (7pm). In the meantime, the UCD Games take place next Wednesday evening (June 18) in Belfield. Main programme from 5pm; pre-programme from 3pm. See UCD Athletics on Facebook for full timetable.

A number of Dublin athletes travelled to Belfast for the Lagan Valley AC/British Milers open meet at the Mary Peters Track on Saturday (June 14) and winning the women’s 1500m in PB 4:13.33 was Eimear Maher (Dundrum South Dublin AC). Not too far behind was Niamh Kearney (Raheny Shamrock) who finished third in 4:127.89. In the men’s A 3000ms, Shane Spring (Raheny Shamrock) finished fourth in 8:11.80, while in the B race, junior athlete Charlie O’Neill (Donore Harriers, M17) was second in 8:32.69. Finishing third in the men’s mile in 4:00.44 was Phillip Marron (Dublin City Harriers). Louie Woodger (Metro St Brigid’s) won the B mile in 4:08.41.

TRACK AND FIELD - AWAY 

Among the Dublin athletes racing abroad on Saturday were Louis O’Loughlin (Donore Harriers) fourth in the mens 800m in 1:48.89 in Nivelles, Belgium. In Malta, Lee Byrne (Rathfarnham WSAF AC) who was second in the men’s 800m in 1:58.13. Winning the Para 100m in Oslo on Thursday was Orla Comerford (Raheny Shamrock AC ) in a personal best 11.87 secs.

On Wednesday (June 11) Nicola Tuthill (UCD AC) improved on her own Irish U23 hammer record with a throw of 71.71 at the Motornet GP in Lahti Finland. Tuthill finished third in the competition with local athlete Krista Tervo the winner with a PB 77.14. The throw is just 1.50m off Eileen O’Keefe’e Irish record of 73.21m. Sarah Healy (UCD AC) lined out in a mixed 800m at the BMC Gold Standard meet in Trafford on Tuesday (June 19) and was rewarded with a time of 2:00.87 - one-hundredth of a second off her personal best of 2:00.86 set two years ago.

In France, at the Meeting de Montreuil, also on Tuesday, Jodie McCann (Dublin City Harriers) finished sixth in the 1500m with a time of 4:09.95. At the Kladno meet in Czechia Sophie Becker (Raheny Shamrock AC) won the 400m in a time of 51.83 secs. In the men’s 800m, Louis O’Loughlin (Donore Harriers) finished sixth in 1:48.38. A feature of this competition was and event for men and women called the ‘Litter of Balls’. We suspect they meant the shot putt! At the Meeting Cidade de Lisbon in Portugal, Sean Donoghue (Dublin City Harriers) won the men’s 1500m in 3:43.34, while Kate Doherty (DSD AC) opened her outdoor season by finishing third in the 100m hurdles in 13.78 secs. 

ROADS

Canadian visitor Nickolas Colyn proved the class of the field at the Castleknock 5km in west Dublin on Sunday (May 15) winning in a time of 14:45. Sean Doran (Clonliffe Harriers) was second in 15:33 - his third race of the week. 

At the Boyne 5km, in Drogheda, Co Louth on Friday (June 13), Ian Guiden (Clonliffe Harriers) finished second in 15:10, while Kate Purcell (Raheny Shamrock, W40) was second woman in 17:53.

OFF ROAD 

James Moran led home 1,407 finishers at the Dublin Front Runners Pride 5km around the 15 Acres in the Phoenix Park on Friday (June 13). First woman was Mollie O’Donnell (Liffey Valley AC) in 18:25.

In Trim, Co Meath, also on Friday, over 500 runners took to the fields on a warm, sunny evening for the Braveheart 5km trail run, where racing machine Sean Doran (Clonliffe Harriers) finished third in 16:24 and Kate McCrystal (UCD AC) was third woman in 20:05. Earlier in the week, Doran was the runaway winner of the BCMGlobal BHAA 5km Trail Race in the Phoenix Park on Tuesday evening. Doran finished in 16 mins 16 secs, with Tom Sherlock (Bank of Ireland) second in 16:59 and Ian Comerford (ESB) third in 17.31. Sixth and first M40 was Paddy O’Boyle in 18:32. First woman was Clare Sullivan (CSO) in 19:52. Niamh O’Keeffe (ESB) was second in 21:32 and Caroline McCarthy (RCSI) third in 21:43. A number of BCMGlobal staff members also lined out, led home by David Geraghty in a respectable 25th place, with Rebecca Cuskelly first woman home and sixth of the senior women.