Celtic DCH

Sat 31st Jan HITW 10am anyone over 14 not competing in Abbottstown this weekend . No training in Dunboyne today.

Sun 1st Feb HITW 11am same group as Saturday. No training for the younger athletes today as coaches will all be at the indoor arena.

Best of luck to all competing this weekend at the indoor arena. Keep in touch with Dublin athletics Facebook and instagram pages for updates.

Tuesday 3rd Feb indoor arena 7.30
Till 9. Assemble from 7.15

Thur 5th Feb 5pm group meet at HITW ( high viz tops please)
Everyone else and older group who can’t make HITW meet at 7 in Grangegorman.

Well done to Max won the shot putt under 15 at Day 1 of the Dublin indoors, first time over the 11m mark. A lot of hard work put in over the winter by Max and great support from his Dad.
Íde had her first outing in the walking race under 14 and was very impressive as she powered around the 1k race to win her first Dublin medal.

Earlier in the day the 200m heats were held. Pearl finished 7th overall, Sean ran his first 200 very good run 9th overall, Freya and Maisy ran well even though 200 is a bit short for both of them.
Martha had a solid run in her heat and ran faster in her final just missing out on a bronze medal.

Great to see our two under 15s Rion and Ellen make the final of their race finishing 5th and 7th.

Martha had a straight final and the finish was very close, so close that 2nd place couldn’t be separated so joint 2nd place for Martha. Well done to all .

Day 2 and 3 next weekend!

Busy week for secondary schools with the East, West and North Leinster schools held in mostly awful conditions in the Phoenix park.

East was first off and Louis McFeely was a very impressive 21st in the inter boys race.

West was on Thursday. Ben Treacy had a fine run in the minor boys coming 31st, 2nd in for st Declan’s team which came 5 th overall
Arron had his best run coming 12th in the senior boys with Isiah close behind in 15th place.

North was held this morning in good overhead conditions but some very mucky patches.
Lucas came 6th in the minor boys, Juliette came 6th in the junior girls, Freya had her best run in a while coming 14th in the inter girls, Jessica 15th, Caroline 18th, Saoirse 21st, Emma 25th . Despite decent packing the St Dominic’s team just missed team medals finishing 4th in a high standard team race. All the inter girls are in this age group again next year.
Abigail had a solid run in the senior girls finishing 18th overall.
Well done to all, everyone did their best on the day.

Thank you to all who came out to support during the week.

Sat 24th Jan Dunboyne track sprints group 9.30 and middle distance under 14 and older. Those who competed in north Leinster should take the day off.

Sun 25th Jan HITW 11 am everyone not involved in the Dublin indoors day 1

Tue 27th Jan NIA 7.30 till 9 pm everyone. We will be finalising our relay teams for the Dublins tonight.

Thursday 29th Jan. 5pm group meet at the HITW . Everyone else Grangegorman at 7pm.

Well done to all who competed yesterday in Tymon Park. We should have the results later on this evening. The top 10 finishers yesterday were Arron ( under 19), Jessica , Saoirse and Caroline (Under 16), Freya and Emma under 15, Juliette under 14, Louise under 13, Daire under 16, Niall under 11. Great to see the turnout from the club , thank you to all the parents who brought the athletes and supported on the day. Club cross country finished for now. There will be more schools cross country coming up on the Bogies and Irishtown . Dates to be confirmed. Well done to Martha and Ellen who managed a long day in NIA doing the multi events .

Last Wednesday we had a few of the girls competing at the DCu schools cross country. Jessica had her best run in a long time and led her team to 2nd place overall with solid runs from Caroline, Saoirse and Emma. In the NIA games later that day Freya opened her season with a decent outing over 800m.

Best of luck to Martha and Ellen at the combined events in the indoor arena tomorrow 💪