Grand Prix Series: McCarrick Plate, Malahide Castle (and O`Connor Cup on Thursday)

Grand Prix Series 2019 – Round 6 – Thursday May 30th – Report by Liam Hennessy. The Mc Carrick Plate, 2.5 Mile Trail /Tarmac Race took place last Thursday at Malahide. 62 Runners toed the starting line. The weather was good; although a strong breeze during the first mile hindered fast times.
Full list of results as follows:
Eamonn Dunne – 14.11 – PB

Dave Dunwoody – 14.53 – PB

Mick Berminghmam – 15.08 – PB

Shane Casey – 15.19

Stephen Treacy -15.24

Murray Ahern – 15.26

Dessie Shorten – 15.31 – PB

Alan Curley – 15.34

Mick Gleeson – 15.35 – PB

Philip Matthews – 15.39

Seamus Devitt – 15.42 – PB

Richard Case – 15.44

Maura Matthews – 15.52

Emma Cooper – 15.58

Richie Barr – 16.00

Declan Grant – 16.10

Emma Dunne – 16.15

David Quinn – 16.35

Julie Larkin – 16.47

Shane Rooney – 16.47

Maurice Mc Hale – 16.47 – PB

Sean Grimes – 16.49

AImee Ahern – 16.55

David O’Sullivan – 17.01

Deirdre Fitzsimons – 17.02

Trevor Wisdom – 17.17

Maria Howard – 17.24 – PB

Mary Ketterer – 17.37 – PB

Thomas Dunne – 17.38 – PB

Carmel Ward – 17.40

Gerard Fay – 17.45 – PB

Fintan Crehan – 17.50

Tom Cassidy – 17.52

Don Molloy – 17.55 – PB

Aideen O’Connor – 18.00

Ciara Peelo – 18.03 – PB

Declan Murray – 18.05

Laura Kernan – 18.06

Mark Dowling – 18.06

Orla Deighan – 18.09

Greg O’Beirne – 18.12 – PB

Jean Dunne – 18.13

Maura Shaughnessy – 18.19 – PB

Evelyn Brennan – 18.29 – PB

Pat Devitt – 18.34

Melissa Curran – 18.37

Jason Blake – 18.46

Pat Healy – 18.47

Anna Kavanagh – 18.54

Sinead Smith – 19.01

Alan Smeaton – 19.01

Kevin Greene – 19.16 – PB

John Stokes – 19.22

Shay Byrne – 19.29

Dave Lyons – 19.52

Ann Mc Donnell – 20.20 – PB

Fergal O’Shea – 20.30 (Late Starter)

Dave Brady – 21.55

Siobhan Mulvey – 23.59

Sinead Morrissey – 23.59 – PB

Richard Connolly – 24.00

Apologies if i misspelt any name above.

The result of the handicap for The Mc Carrick Plate is being kept under wraps and will be revealed on Thursday evening alongside the presentation for this coming Thursday’s O’Connor Cup. Many thanks to all who volunteered to help make this race such a success.

Next up:  O`Connor Cup, this Thursday June 6th.

Grand Prix Series 2019 takes to the Grass !!

The Grand Prix Series continues this Thursday evening at Santry Demesne with the running of The O’Connor Cup, 4 Mile Grass Race @ 8pm. The O’Connor Cup was traditionally a Cross Country Race, but became a Summer Grass Race with the advent of the Grand Prix Series. The O’Connor Cup is one of the oldest Clonliffe club races and is a most special race in our clubs history. The O’Connor Cup is a fabulous trophy, which was first presented to the club by J.J O’Connor, who in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s dominated Irish Cross Country running. O’Connor won the National Cross Country Championships on no less than four occasions with several different clubs, but it was in the colours of Clonliffe that he won the National Cross Country Championship in 1935.

The presentations for both The Mc Carrick Plate, which was kindly sponsored by Paul O’Loughlin and the O’Connor Cup, kindly sponsored by Alan Worral will take place on Thursday.