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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.

Well done to Sean and Daire who won sports awards in St. Declans this week

We had around 30 athletes in action at league 4 in Santry on Saturday. Thank you to all the parents who brought their children out and supported them. Thanks to Edel, Kim and Jane who looked after the gang.

Oisin Gavin had a great run in the 60m finishing 4th and later ran in the 400m, Keelin Collins was 3rd in her 500m, Clare, Kasey, Antonia, Julianne and Antoniette all ran well in their 60m and 600m. Niamh O Connor came 3rd in her long jump. Great to see so many of our under 14 and 15 group in action with Laura May, Aoibh, Sarah, Anna, SaraJane, and Celine all running in the 1000m races and Conor in the boys race. Dora and Sean won their 100m races, Emily Corcoran won her high jump and Chloe came 2nd in her 100m under 16.

Well done to all. The next outing will be the Dublin Championships on Friday 3rd of June.