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It was out to Tallaghtthis evening for tonight’s 2nd Dublin graded meet of the season. There was a handful of the clubs athletes who travelled for tonight meet. Alannah Cooley was third in grade A of the 1500 in a time of 4.56.36. In the men’s 1500 series Sean Carrigg was 5th in grade A in a time of 4.14.13 with Jarlaith Jordan 8th (4.16.28). In grade C Eoghan Murphy was 2nd (4.27.47) with Niall Sherlock 7th (4.46.06). Finally in the night’s 5000 race Declan Power was 4th in a time of 16.08.45 with Thomas Sherlock 5th in 16.09.70.

Monday night (May 12th) in the USA David Fitzmaurice continued to race himself back to fitness and with his third outing over 5000 has gone sub 15 (Fitzi made the comment that this was his first time to go sub 15 in years). At a meet in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania he placed 3rd in his heat, (from some 65 starters!) in 14.54.88.

There were two huge pbs recorded by Clonliffe junior athletes at last night’s first Graded Meet of the year in Morton Stadium. Finishing in 1st and 2nd places in the A 3000 Daniel Stone ran 8.44.74, a 25 second pb, and Ben Guiden 8.50.20, a 29 second pb.

Other results Thomas Sherlock 9.13.29, 5th in the same 3000. In the 800 Fionn Carroll was 1st in the A race in 2.01.67, 7th Jarlath Jordan 2.05.75 and in the B race Shaun Conaghan 2.08.44. In the Hammer Simon Galligan was 1st 56.75m. Frances Mansfield in the 3kg hammer 16.42m.

Last night was the final meet of the Dublin Graded series. Aaron Cullen had a win in the mile A race in 4.34.99. In The B race Eoghan Murphy ran 4.54.45. Alannah Cooley ran 5.21.50. In The 400s Snezana Bechtina recorded 59.59, Greta Streimikyte 64.90 and Mark McDonald 52.76. Greg Hossenny continued his pb form of late with a 3000 pb of 9.03.88. Simon Galligan won the hammer (55.05) and Rolus Olusa win the long jump (6.86). Continue Reading →

Whilst the club`s juvenile athletes were battling away at HQ last night a number of the seniors travelled to Tallaght Stadium for the latest round in the ever popular Graded Meets. Alannah Cooley ran 2.25.74 in the 800, while Diana Markina ran a pb of 2.40.92, having earlier ran 29.94 for 200. Shaun Conaghan was 5th in the 800 (2.04.75) with Jack Maughan 7th (2.05.32) and Conor Healy 5th in the 3000 (8.49.75).

In an historic night last night`s (June 6th) Dublin Graded Meet at Morton Stadium saw Bandon AC`s Phil Healy set a new Irish women`s 100 record of 11.26. It was a perfect night: warm, sunny and not a breath of wind.

From a Clonliffe point of view there was great interest throughout the meet. The men`s A 100 was akin to a club championship won by Keith Pike in 10.98, 2nd was newly minted Clonliffe boy Eamonn Fahey 11.03, 5th Pascal Touche 11.44 and 6th Isreal Ibeanu 11.46.

Leah Bergin was 5th in the A 400 (58.12) with Diana Markina 6th in the B race (66.47). In the men`s 400 Mark McDonald ran 52.05 and  Cian Bolger  53.21, Niall Sherlock despite not quite blasting from the blocks in grade C, ran 58.72 to take 2nd place.

The 1500s were a tremendous spectacle with Clonliffe vests dominating proceedings. Sarah Bateson front ran her B grade race from the gun and after a solo run was some 50 plus meters clear winning in a season`s best of 5.14.61 with  Diana Markin in her 2nd race of the night running 6.01.13.

Of the men in their 1500s there were most encouraging runs. Colm Rooney in his A race was perfectly positioned throughout and kicked off the final bend to win in 4.00.38. Young Aaron Cullen ran an excellent pb in this race of 4.08.10 for 3rd place. Adam O`Brien ran 4.07.36 to 5th place in the 2nd A race. There were a number of B races Greg Hossenny was well clear of the pack as he dominated race 1 to win in 4.14.22. The next B race was most entertaining indeed with a super inter Clonliffe battle at the front Sean Carrig (4.16.51) 1st managing to hold off a battling Ben Guiden, who recorded a 7 second pb of 4.17.51 for 2nd and Shaun Conaghan 3rd 4.17.92. Great runs also by Stephen Cashin 5th 4.20.54 Ian McAlweney and Tom Sherlock. Also Alex Gibbons 4.32.49 and Eoghan Murphy 4.38.64 

In Madrid Clonliffe’s Ale Hernandez back home for the summer ran her first 800 of the season 2.26.

The latest graded meet took place in Tallaght tonight. There was a win in the 800B for Shaun Conaghan in 2.03.62. Thomas Frayne was 3rd in C 2.19.06 and Diana Markina was 5th in the women’s B race 2.47.52. In The 2000 sc Sean Carrig was 4th 6.28.27 and Jordan Byrne 10th 6.54.36.

On the road Sean Doran was 13th at the Bob Heffernan 5k in 16.15.

The first of the Dublin Athletic Board’s graded Meets took place in the Morton Stadium last night. It was a bitterly cold windy night with rain towards the latter end of the evening meaning it was pretty unpleasant conditions for both athletes and officials.

From a Clonliffe perspective Rebecca Fitzsimons enjoyed a win in Grade C of the Women’s 100 in a time of 13.45. In the men’s race C number 2 Thomas Moran was 3^rd in 12.42 with Kristin Bosnjak 5^th in 12.78.

The women’s 800 A saw good Clonliffe representation with Alannah Cooley finishing 4^th (2.21.11), Hannah Browne 7^th 2.26.25 and Orna McGinley 8^th 2.27.16.

In the men’s 800s Grade A race 1 saw a good run from Cian Bolger to finish 8^th in 2.00.22 with Jack Maughan 11^th 2.09.22.  In Grade A race 2 Joey Hession made a welcome return to the track running 2.03.79 for 8^th place.  In Grade B Daniel Stone was 4^th (2.07.13) and in Grade C Niall Sherlock was 2^nd (2.11.96)  Finally in the 3000 combined race A and B Alex Gibbons placed 4^th (9.13.80), Thomas Sherlock – kitting out for the second race of the evening was 6^th 9.16.25, Greg Hossenny was 11^th 9.42.29 and in the combined B and C race Joseph Keane had a fine run to finish 2^nd in 9.27.58 with Ian McAweeney 8^th – 10.00.13.