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A delighted Caoimhe after winning her first National medal in the 400m at the National juniors in a sweltering Tullamore today. Caoimhe ran a pb in her heat coming 2nd and ran another pb in her final coming 3rd. Tough day but a good day!

Alison Burke on the podium after finishing 2nd in the National Junior hurdles in Tullamore today. Well done Alison!

Sat 30th June Hole in the wall 10.30 everyone including smallies
Sat 30th June best of luck to Cliona, Daire, Caoimhe and Alison in the national junior and under 23 championships in Tullamore.

Sun 1st July Hole in the wall older group only 11am. No training for Hilary’s group today.

Tue 3rd July Hole in the wall 10.30 everyone. No evening training. Dermots group check.

Wed 4th July graded in Santry. Check Dublin board website.

Thur 5th July Hole in the wall 10.30 everyone. No evening training. Dermots group check.

News just in that Sean Donoghue has been selected as boys team captain for the irish schools athletics team. Sean will be travelling to Scotland next month to compete in the 3000m. This is a great honour for Sean, his school St Declans, his club and his family. This is a well deserved honour as Sean is a fine young man and a very well respected athlete.

Thank you to all the helpers who came out on Sunday in the Park. We have had many a miserable day at races but Sunday was a real pleasure with unbroken sunshine. Made getting up early worthwhile.

We had a group of our older women in action at the Graded meeting in Tallaght last week running 800m races. Cliona 3rd, Niamh 4th in their A race, with Clare 4th in the second A race and Aoife 6th, Edel was 6th in the B race and Sara Jane won her C race. Cliona went on to run the 3k and finished a good 2nd. On the same night in Santry Joe Fogarty won the under 15 boys 1500m in the Dublin championship and Keelin Gogarty came 6th in the girls race. Caolan Collins came 3rd in the girls under 14 and Gillian Murphy won the 1500m under 16 girls.

At the weekend Clare Murphy got a late call up to run the 300m at the Tailteann Games in Santry and although its a bit short for her she ran very well. Sean Donoghue won his 3000m very impressively and bagged yet another international cap , he will be heading to the schools international in Scotland in July. In Belfast on Sunday Clare, Niamh and Aoife all ran 1500m as guests in the National league round 1. Niamh and Clare ran up to form and Aoife was delighted to get a new pb. Catherine Mc Manus had her first outing over 400m hurdles and also competed in the 200m and 100m. Alison Burke had a good win in the 100m hurdles . Well done to all!