Dublin Clubs Activities, 17 - 21 April 2025

TRACK - OVERSEAS 

 Rhasidat Adeleke  (TallaghtAC) finished fourth in the 200m with a time of 22.57 seconds at the Tom Jones Invitational,  in Gainesville, Florida on  Friday evening (April 18). It was Adeleke’s first individual race of the outdoor season. Big target for  the Tallaght sprinter this summer is the September’s World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, where she will concentrate on her specialist 400m. 

At the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa, California (April 16-18), Louis O’Loughlin (Donore Harriers) finished third in the  800m ‘invite’ race  on Thursday with a personal best time of 1:47.71. A day later,  on Friday,  he ran 3:46.06  in one of the five 1500m races on offer.  Also  running a  1500m on Friday was  Ronan McMahon Staggs  (Dublin City Harriers)  who finished seventh in the men’s elite trace in a personal best 3:38.23.  Fiona Hawkins (Dublin City Harriers) ran a time of 4:25.10 having run 16:55.60 a day earlier earlier for  5000m. Niamh Fogarty (Raheny Shamrock AC)  was in  Ramona Oklahoma, where she threw 56.21m in the discus competition. - not far off her personal best 56.49 set last summer.

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Pierre Murchan (Dublin City Harriers)  finished second in the sold-out Streets of Kilkenny 5km  on Thursday evening (April 17 ) with a time of  14 mins 21. Murchan was just six seconds behind the winner Cathal O’Reilly of (Kilkenny City Harriers). Anthony O’Brien (Raheny Shamrock AC) was fourth in 14:45 and Stephen Cashin (Clonliffe Harriers) finished eighth in 14:55. Orla Duffy (Dublin City Harriers)  finished third woman in 16:38. The race was the second round of this year’s new-look Peugeot Race Series with €2,000 in ‘bonuses’ to be handed out at  each of the ten races in the series. Next round is the Aisling Murphy 4-Mile in Tullamore on  Sunday, May 11. Full details at  www.popupraces.ie

Kenneth Nugent (Donore Harriers) led home 371 finishers in the Kilmovee 10km in Co Mayo on Saturday morning. Conditions were wet. 

Former Irish marathon champion and Rathfarnham WSAF Member - Sean Hehir (Croghan AC) was the winner of the Battle of Clontarf 10-mile in St Anne’s Park, Dublin, on Easter Monday April 21. His time was 54 mins 53 secs. First woman was Fiona Roche of host club Raheny Shamrock in 60:01. Both winner were also first over 40. Jason Reilly (Civil Service Harriers) was second overall in 55:10 and Anthony Doran (Clonliffe Harriers) third in 55:27. Colm Costelloe (Brothers Pearse AC) was ninth and first M50 in 57:21. Of the women, Niamh Clifford was second in 60:27 and Fiona Kehoe (Kilmore AC, W40) third in 61:09. Other age group winners for Dublin club athletes were Denis Farrell (Portmarnock AC) M55, Gerry Boyle (Rathfarnham WSAF AC) M65, Ronan Ward (Civil Service Harriers) M70, Yvonne Macauley (Crusaders AC) W35, Tara Kennedy (Rahney Shamrock AC) W50, Deirdre O’Mahony (Blackrock AC) W60 and Grainne Grennan (Blackrock AC) W65. Raheny Shamrock won both men and women’s team titles. In the men’s race, Raheny beat Donore Harriers by less than a minute with Civil Service Harriers third. Crusaders was second of the women’s teams, followed by Tullamore Harriers. Civil Service Harriers finished fourth and third Dublin club. The race was a Leinster Championships.