May 9, 2010 []
The 119th running of the Clonliffe 2 took place earlier today in perfect conditions. Close to 100 athletes toed the line for the 2 mile event which once again started at the bottom of the hill pub in Finglas. The course went down hill for the first mile with a tough climb for 400m at Glasnevin cemetery and on to the finish at Kavanagh’s Pub (The Gravediggers).
The key results are outlined below, the full results should be up on this website by tomorrow evening.
Men
1st Paul Fleming Rathfarnham> 9.30 2th Gary O’Hanlon Clonliffe Harriers 9.31 3rd Gareth Murran (Unattached) 9.58
Women
1st Ciara Durkan Skerries AC 10.25 2th Lorraine Manning Raheny Shamrock 10.38 3rd Annette Kealy Raheny Shamrock 11.01
Many thanks to Eugene Kavanagh for his sponsorship of this event for the last 27 years, to the Finglas Community Garda Siochana and for all the officials and helpers that gave up their time to make this race happen. A special thanks to Mick Kearney for yet another successful Clonliffe race as Race Director.
As next year will be the 125th anniversary for the club and the 120th running of this race we look a bigger and better race.