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We had a decent day at the Leinster schools in Santry today. Connor came 32nd in the minor boys race and his team from St Declans didn’t make it to Nationals. In the junior girls race Clare o Connor came 13th in a very competitive team race the St Dominics team did their best but missed out on Nationals. A very high quality inter girls race was dominated by Loreto Kilkenny and the St Dominics team Gillian, Clare, Sara and Cliodhna came 3rd. Sean Donoghue returned to racing with a fine 2nd place in the inter boys race. Dora, Emily, Celine and Keelin came 2nd team in the senior girls race for St Dominics. Well done everyone.

Best of luck to everyone competing in the Leinster schools tomorrow in Santry. Conor in the minor boys and Sean in the inter boys both running for St Declans. In the junior girls race Clare O Connor, aisling Keenan, Cliodhna Ryan, Kacey Tully and Hazel Maguire run for St Dominics.
Sara Byrne, Cliodhna Donaghy, Clare and Gillian Murphy run in the inter race, Emily Murphy, Keelin Gogarty, Celine Gavin, Laura Maleady and Dora Medgyesy run in the senior race. If any of the 4th years who are on work experience need a lift be at sportshall at 11.40.

We had some of our older athletes in action last weekend at the Irish Intervarsity championships in Athlone. Alison Burke had a busy day coming 3rd in the 60m hurdles in a new PB. She also did the multi events, shot, long jump, high jump and 800m finishing a fine 2nd overall gaining valuable points for DCU. Pierre continues his return to form.with a very good run in 5th place over 1500m. Daire Finn finished a strong 2nd in the 3k and Muireann McGinley was 5th in the pole vault. In Germany Cliona Murphy came 2nd for her college in the 3k at the German University indoors championships. Well done everyone.

Aontoinette on podium 200m under 16 final