National 5k Gold for men, Bronze for women (plus roads round up)

It was another successful outing for Clonliffe Harriers at this morning’s national 5K Road championships in the Phoenix Park. Although weather conditions were perfect for running the Park 5k course is a tough one featuring the long hill at around 3.5K.

There was a particular strong men’s team who well justified their favourites tag taking a comfortable win with a combined time of 59.49 well clear of Letterkenny AC 61.25 with Galway City Harriers 3rd. The men’s team was led home in 2nd place by Colm Rooney clocking a time of 14.34, in 5th place was Ian Guiden 14.52, Stephen Cashin 9th 15.02 and Mahad Egaal 13th 15.22. The men successfully retained the National team title.

There was an equally fine performance by the women’s team, despite missing a couple of athletes, the team was led home by Niamh Kelly stepping up considerably in distance from the 800 she ran in Belfast this day last week, Niamh finished 12th woman in a chip time of 18.05, next in was Meghan O’Keeffe 25th, in a new PB of 18.50 and Clodagh Galvin 6th 18.54, with 3 to count in the women’s race the team had a combined score time of 56.12, only 7 seconds off silver.

There was a fantastic turnout of Clonliffe athletes with over 30 competing. Results:

2	Colm ROONEY	00:14:34	00:14:34	520	M	M NAT	M40	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
5	Ian GUIDEN	00:14:52	00:14:52	374	M	M NAT	MS	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
9	Stephen CASHIN	00:15:02	00:15:02	297	M	M NAT	MS	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
13	Mahad Mohamed EGAAL	00:15:22	00:15:22	334	M	M NAT	MJ	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
18	Sean CARRIGG	00:15:40	00:15:40	295	M	M NAT	MS	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
25	Sean DORAN	00:15:49	00:15:49	216	M	M NAT	MS	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
39	Mark MCDONALD	00:16:10	00:16:11	441	M	M NAT	MS	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
55	Sean MCGARRITY	00:16:37	00:16:38	444	M	M NAT	MS	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
113	Anthony DORAN	00:17:41	00:17:41	329	M	M NAT	M40	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
128	Tadhg COWLEY	00:17:53	00:17:58	307	M	M NAT	MJ	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
142	Niamh KELLY	00:18:05	00:18:13	406	F	F NAT	FS	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
196	Meghan O’KEEFFE	00:18:50	00:18:58	493	F	F NAT	FS	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
199	Clodagh GALVIN	00:18:54	00:19:03	362	F	F NAT	FS	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
211	Hannah BROWNE	00:19:03	00:19:12	285	F	F NAT	FS	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
214	Ibrahim UMAR	00:19:10	00:19:14	544	M	M NAT	MJ	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
226	Aoife O’REILLY	00:19:15	00:19:22	499	F	F NAT	FS	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
231	Thomas Jnr GRIFFIN	00:19:17	00:19:26	373	M	M NAT	M50	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
269	Catherine HARVEY	00:19:49	00:19:56	383	F	F NAT	F35	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
270	Jesseka GALLAGHER	00:19:48	00:19:56	360	F	F NAT	FS	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
335	Gerald WALSH	00:20:37	00:20:41	549	M	M NAT	M40	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
355	Aoife KINAHAN	00:20:53	00:21:01	419	F	F NAT	FS	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
363	Chloe HEASLIP	00:20:59	00:21:08	389	F	F NAT	FS	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
453	Andrew EUSTACE	00:21:09	00:22:45	339	M	M NAT	M50	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
496	Orla DEIGHAN	00:23:09	00:23:22	31	F	F NAT	F50	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
544	Aine MCCANN	00:23:42	00:23:56	574	F	F NAT	F55	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
644	Siobhan MCCARTHY	00:23:50	00:25:25	88	F	F NAT	F50	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
716	Yvonne MCDONOUGH	00:24:56	00:26:29	575	F	F NAT	F50	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.
843	Evelyn BRENNAN	00:26:24	00:28:22	281	F	F NAT	F55	Clonliffe Harriers A.C.

Also: Andrew Gaffney 16.58 (PB), Ronan Donohue 18.58, Alan Fowler 28.28, Aoife Fowler.

Round up: On Thursday evening, the 16th, Sergiu Ciobanu won the Fota 5k in Cork in 15.35.

Saturday the 18th Tudor Mireca was 1st in the grueling Lap of the Gap half marathon in Glendalough, Co Wicklow in a time of 71.13.

Also on Saturday Lee Maginnis was 3rd in the Glenarm Castle Challenge 5k in 21.43.

There was a group of Clonliffe juveniles at the Albert College Park Run on Saturday where Isaac O’Neill was 1st home in the Junior 2k.