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Anyone who has a Dublin Community Games Cup or trophy at home please get it out and check if you have got it engraved, Give it a bit of a polish and drop it into Carmichael House in Brunswick st if you are down that way. Otherwise give it to Hilary or Mary at training so that we can bring it to Santry on the 18/19th June for the County finals. Please keep that date free.

Competing on Friday night.Be there at 6.30 sharp
500/600m
Lily, Shona, Aoife Evans, Niamh O connor, Clare, Kacey , James, Antonia, Aontoinette, Keelin Gogarty, Keelin Collins,Julianne

Be there at 7.30 800m
Evan, Ben, Aoife, Ellen, Sara Jane Brennan,

On Sunday in Tallaght Day 2 takes place.

Alison Burke -long hurdles be there at 10.30
Emily Corcoran High jump down for 4. be there 2.30
Sara Byrne,Anna Petit, Dora, be there at 11.30
Caoimhe Lynam and Alison 100m at 2pm.
Anyone who qualifies for the under 12/13 600m from Friday night and is competing in the final should be in Tallaght by 11.30 on Sunday.

Details for following weekend will go up on site next Tuesday.

The primary schools relays are taking place this week in Santry. In Mondays event our athletes from D7ET were in action. Lia Butler-Lynch and Keelin Collins were both on the school under 12 team which won the gold medal. The girls ran great and were delighted with their medals. Julianne ran for Adamstown under 12 and her team came 4th in their heat. Well done to all

Pierre ran his first 5k track race in Oordegem in Belgium last night at the IFAM meet and made it inside the qualifying time for World Juniors in Poland by less than a second! The race was held at the end of a programme that started at 9am and went non stop all day until 12.30 at night. His race was at 12.20 at night there, 11.20pm our time! Hundreds of races all run off smack on time. Great result for Pierre and it brings him to number 5 on the Irish SENIOR ranking list at the moment. Huge well done!
Catherine McManus was happy with her 100m and was unfortunately and herself and Steffi Creaner both ran well in the 200m into a headwind.

Back in Glasgow Cliona Murphy ran very well in her 1500m in the Irish versus Scottish university meeting coming 2nd in her 1500m. Well done to all!

Sat 28th May Hole in the Wall 10.30am -everyone

Sun 29th May Hole in the Wall 11am -everyone

Tue 31st May Hole in the Wall 10.30 – older group if free
Hole in the Wall 7pm -everyone

Wed 1st June High jump in the Hall 6pm

Thur 2nd June Hole in the Wall 7pm -everyone
Older gang if free 10.30 at the Hole in the Wall

Friday 3rd June Day 1 of the Dublin championships in Santry-details later

On Monday last we had a number of athletes representing their primary schools at their sports in Santry. Great wins on the day from Aoibh Collins, Keelin Collins and Louise Hunt in their 600m races, James Mc Manus came 3rd in his 600, Alex Corr came 4th in her long jump. Well done to Julianne, Aoife, Niamh, Clare, Finn and Shona who were all competing up age groups.

On Wednesday night in Irishtown some of our oldies competed in the Graded meeting. Catherine Mc Manus and Caoimhe Lynam ran in the womens 400m, Caoimhe knocked nearly a second off her pb and is edging closer to the 60secs barrier, Catherine ran her first flat 400m and won her race with a new respect for 400m runners! Finn Burke Power continued his good form with a very good run in his 400m finishing 3rd.
Aoife Ni Bhroin, Cliona Murphy and Niamh Donnelly were very happy with their first 800m races of the season, all running close to their best times.

This weekend Finn, Caoimhe , Aoife and Niamh run in the AAI games in Santry, Catherine, Steffi and Pierre run in the IFAM meeting in Belgium, Cliona runs in Glasgow for the Irish Universities team in a match against the Scottish Universiteis. Best of luck to everyone.