Fixtures

Well done to all the Club athletes who competed at the Dublin Graded meeting in Tallaght Athletic Stadium on 22nd June. We had some excellent races over 100m, 800m and the Javelin. Dublin Championship races were held for women over 3,000m and 5,000m for men. The 3,000m was won by Laura McDonnell in 10.12.30 from Rathfarnham WSAF AC and the 5,000m by Ieuan Hopkins in 15.25.55 from Bro. Pearse. AC. Many thanks to all the Tallaght AC and Dublin Athletics Volunteers who made the meeting a success. Photos of all who ran are in the Album section of the Dublin Athletics Facebook site and the full results are on the Graded Meetings part of this website.

This years Dublin 5k Novice Road Race Championships takes place in conjunction with the Tallaght 5k Road Race on Sunday 24th July at 10.00. Novice athletes can enter the 5k in the normal way through the PopUP Races website at Tallaght 5k 2022. Athletes must tick the Novice Box on the online form to ensure they are considered a Novice for results tabulation. In addition Club Captains must fill in and sign the attached form, declaring their athletes are Novice runners. Please give it in at the Registration desk before the race. Medals will be awarded to the first three Novice athletes home in the mens and womens races and for the first three teams (4 to score).

To qualify as a road Novice, participants must not have won an Individual Gold or Team Gold in a Senior Road Race championship before.

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Please see attached the final results for the ladies Dublin 10k road race championships which were held in conjunction with the Womens Mini Marathon on Sunday 5th June. The medals will be distributed to Clubs by PJ Claffey at the Dublin Graded Meeting No. 5, Tallaght Athletic Stadium on 22nd June and Graded No. 6 on 6th July. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you wish to collect them elsewhere. 

Well done to all who competed in the Dublin Championships at the Fourth Dublin Graded Meeting on Wednesday last. NIck Davis's report in the News part of the website decribes how the meeting went. Dublin Championship medals were awarded to the first three ladies and men in the Hammer, Pole Vault and High Jump. On the track medals were awarded to the three fastest men and women in the 100m, 400m and 1,500m in the Grade A events. Where two Grade A races were run, the fastest three times over both races took the honours. Medal winners on the night were:

100m ladies - Cressda Ananiampong 12.55: Sandra McCarthy 12.58 and Roisin Dobey Crusaders 13.11

100m men - Toluwabori Akinola 10.77; Keith Pike 10.93 and Joseph Finnegan Murphy 10.93.

400m ladies - Caoimhe Mackey 59.13; Erin McMahon 60.04 and Aoife Browne 61.30

400m men - Zak Higgins 49.88; Adam Murphy 50.49 and Dean Cronin 50.53

1,500 ladies - Denise Toner 4.33.09; Lauren Murphy 4.36.49 and Fiona McKenna 4.37.45

1,500m men - David Scanlon 3.58.20; Gavin O'Rourke 3.58.91 and Oliver hopkins 3.59.15.

For those who did not collect their medals on the night, they will be available at the next Graded meetings at Tallaght Stadium on 22nd June and Santry Stadium on 6th July.

Some photos from the nights racing are in the gallery below and additional photos are on the Dublin Athletics Facebook site. Many thanks to all the officials who gave of their time freely to make the meeting a great success.

The second Graded Track meeting on the 2022 Programme took place in Santry Stadium on 11th May and the third meeting was held on the Tallaght Athletic Stadium on 25th May. At the second meeting a Youth 2,000m Steeplechase was held for Boys and Girls. The normal Graded Events were held over 200m, 1,500m and 5,000m, Javelin, Long Jump and Pole Vault.

At the third Meeting in Tallaght Athletic Stadium on 25th May there were events in the Discus, Triple Jump and Javelin, 400m and 800m in all Grades. The Dublin Championships for 17/18 year olds were also held in conjunction with these events The full results for each meeting are posted in the Graded Meetings section. Many thanks to all the officials who helped on both nights and the Stadia management who ensured each meeting was a great success.  

Pictures from the Tallaght meeting are posted with this article and additional pictures are posted on the Dublin Athletics Facebook site. Well done to all who ran. The fourth Graded meeting is on Wednesday 8th June in Santry when several Dublin Championship events will be held. Please keep a watch on the Fixtures section in the Graded Meetings part of this website to know what will take place on the night. Entries will be open on this site soon.

Please note that we are holding the first Dublin Ladies 10k road race championships with the Ladies Mini marathon on 05 June. Dublin Championships Medals will be awarded to Dublin Club runners who have registered to run the race on the Womens Mini Marathon website. Further details on the race are at  Dublin Ladies10K Road Race Championships. Medals will be awarded to the first three home from Dublin Clubs and for the usual Masters Categories F35 to F65. Overall team prizes and prizes for F35 and F50 teams (4 to score) will also be awarded. Medals will be presented after the race to the overall winners at the Presentation area near the finish. Please contact the Womens Mini Marathon office with your registration queries and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you wish to collect any unclaimed medals after the race.

Timetables are attached for the Dublin Juvenile Track & Field Championships to be held in June 2022. Please note these programmes are subject to change and will be added to this site as soon as they are updated. Day 5 and Day 6 programmes have been revised to have the Relays on the Lucan track and not Irishtown Stadium.

Well done to all who took part in the Dublin Graded meeting in Tallaght Stadium on Wednesday 27th April 2022. Nearly 200 athletes competed in the 100m (66 ran), 800m (72) and 3,000m (35). The field events were the Hammer (5), High Jump (6) and Shot Put (8). The full results are in the Graded Results site. Pictures are on our Dublin Athletics Facebook site and in the 2022 Gallery. Many thanks to the Tallaght Stadium team for hosting a successful night's track and field and the many volunteers who helped. 

Graded Meetings Get Underway - Report by Nick Davis

The first of the Eight Meeting Series was held in Tallaght on Wednesday April 27th. with over 200 athletes in action. It was a good evening for two young runners as both Cormac Dixon of Tallaght and Darragh Mulroney of Moy Valley both achieved the Standard for the 3000m in the forthcoming EYOF Competition. The race was won by Rory O’Connor of North Cork, who picked up the pace in the last Kilometre to clock 8.42.26. Followed to the finish by Cormac Dixon from the host club 8.49.11 to the delight of his Coach Cecil Johnson, and Darragh Mulroney 0f Moy Valley also inside the Qualifying Standard.

The fastest Sprinter in action was Akinola Tolowabori from Fingallians who clocked 10.78 in the Men's 100m with Lelia Colfer from St. Laurence O'Toole the fastest women in 12.29. Lucy Moore displayed her versatility in the Field events. Throwing 25.40 in the Hammer and clearing 1.05 to win the Women's High Jump. Mustaf Nasir of Tallaght clocked 1.56.72 to win the Men's 800m with Victoria Lightbody of City of Lisburn winning the Women's 800m.

Well done to all the Dublin Clubs who took part in the National Road Relays in a sunny Raheny yesterday. In particular congratulations must go to the Dublin Clubs who took home National Medals. These include in the Womens Masters race Sportsworld won gold in the F35+ race and Raheny Shamrocks won bronze. In the F50+ race we had a clean sweep by Dublin Clubs with Raheny Shamrocks (gold), Bro. Pearse (silver) and Lucan Harriers (Bronze). The same happened in the womens senior race where UCD took Gold and bronze and they were separated by Rathfarnham WSAF AC who took silver.

In the mens masters race Bro. Pearse took silver and Clonliffe Harriers took bronze. In the M50+ Category Donore Harriers took silver and Metro/St Brigid's took bronze. In the Men's senior race Clonliffe Harriers won gold and UCD took the silver medal award.

The full results are on the Athletics Ireland website at 2022 Results. Pictures of all Dublin runners are on our Dublin Athletics Facebook page and more are in our Gallery at National Road Relays 2022