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Venue for the races in Portmarnock is the GAA pitches directly opposite Portmarnock sports and leisure center. Take the Malahide exit from the M50 . At the Hilton hotel take a left. At the next set of traffic lights turn right passing the entrance to Balgriffen cemetery. Take the next left and after you go under the railway bridge there is a signposted site road to the right. At the top of the hill Portmarnock sports and leisure club will be on your right but you take the next left through the housing estate. Distances are as follows and we start at 11am

under 7 300m
under 9 400m
under 11 500m
under 13 600m
under 15 800m

This was a great event last year, very relaxed and an ideal event for all our younger athletes. We expect everyone to go to Portmarnock if possible except those who competed for their secondary schools this week in Santry. Competition will be over in an hour.

We have been asked to provide officials to do the medals and water station at the finish line for the Samsung Night race on Sunday night in town. We plan to meet at Easons in O;Connell st at 7pm. Race will be over at 10.20. Please let Mary know if you are free.

Well done to Catherine Mc Manus and Steffi Creaner who have been selected to represent Ireland on the 4 x 100m squad at the World relay championships on the May Bank Holiday weekend. They travel to Florida this week for a week of relay training and then go down to the Bahamas on the 30th of April. Its a great achievement for our club to have 2 girls on the relay team and both have been with the club since they were very young, Catherine started with us when she was 6! A lot of hard work, and a lot of tears along the way but lots of good days as well. This is the biggest competition either have been to so it will be very exciting for them both. Best of luck girls and enjoy the experience.

The following are the dates for the Dublin Juvenile League and Championships, also included is the program for league one.

Track and Field League 1 Saturday 2nd May 2015 Santry

Juvenile T&F Fixtures 2015

Sat 18th April athletes born in 2002 and younger Hole in the Wall 10.30 All older athletes Santry at 12NOON

Sun 19th April Hole in the Wall 11am -everyone

Tue 21st April Hole in the Wall 7pm -everyone
Bogies at 4pm for anyone whos free
Wed 22nd April High jump in the Hall 6pm

Thur 23rd April Hole in the Wall 7pm-everyone

North and West Leinster schools are on this week. Best of luck to everyone who is competing.

Well done to all our junior athletes who competed in the junior and mini Great Ireland runs on Saturday. Have a look at the results on the Great Ireland run website to see how well you all ran. Mean while in Belfast at the National Intervarsity championships we had some very good performances from our older girls. Aislinn Moorehouse ran a big pb in the womens 1500m where Niamh Donnelly finished a fine 4th in a good season opener. Steffi Creaner won the womens 100m and 200m. In the Rotterdam marathon Sean Morley our well experienced marathoner knocked almost 5 mins off his best time running 2hours 48mins proving that hitting the big 50 is no barrier to improving your marathon time. Keep it going Sean and a big well done.