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This Friday morning Pierre Murchan flies off to Cardiff with 31 other boys and girls to compete for Ireland at the schools international cross country in Wales which takes place on Saturday. The Irish team will be competing against the best young athletes from England, Scotland and Wales. The team will return to Dublin on Sunday. This will be the last cross country race of the current season and we can now look forward to the track season. Best of luck to Pierre from all at Celtic!

Sat 16th March- Usual groups to Santry 10.30 sharp
Everyone else to Hole in the Wall 10.30 -no training for smallies on Sunday 17th March so come on Saturday to Hole in the Wall instead.

Sun 17th March All usual groups to Hole in the Wall at 11 except the smallies( anyone born 2000 or younger no training today)

Tue 19th Mar Hut at the back of the church 7pm-everyone

Wed 20th Mar High jump in the Hall at 6pm

Thur 21st Mar School Hall 7pm-everyone

Sat 16 March Dermots group to Santry 10.30am Brians group to Santry 10.30
Older cross country group to Santry 10.30

Pierre, Ritchie and any of Brians group not going to Santry go to hole in the Wall 10.30.
All the smallies go to Hole in the Wall 10.30. No smallie training on Sun 17th March
Sun 17th Mar

Sat 23rd March start at 11am check in closes 10.15 60m and High jump under 12 Sophie English

Alison Burke high jump under 14 starts at 11am

James Scanlon 60m under 15 check in closes at 10.15 -high jump at 12.15

1500m check in closes at 3pm
Alison Armstrong, Cliona Murphy, Cliona Carthy

Sunday 24th march
check in for 800m races closes at 10am
under 15 Darragh Finn
under 17 Dylan turner
under 18 Cliona Murphy and Cliona Carthy
under 19 Danny Byrne Crowley
There may be heats depending on numbers in the 800s and finals will run at 4pm

High jump under 17 starts at 10.30am

High jump under 17 starts at 10.30am Hazel English and Sara Curran
11.45 Chloe Corcoran under 13
2pm Alex Cetaras

High jump training
Due to a mix up in the Parish office we were unable to do high jump on Wednesday. Apologies from Marion in the office. We have organised a jump session at 5pm on Friday in the schools hall. Hope you can make it.

For full programme for the National Indoors click on National events on front page of athletics Ireland website.

The Irish schools cross country championships were held on a very wet, bendy course in Jordanstown University grounds today. St Dominics minor team were on the road at 8am in a very positive mood! The race started at 12 sharp and as they headed out on the ‘big lap’ after doing the 500m small lap it was clear that the girls were packing well and looking good for a good team placing. As they approached the finish Sinead Reynolds who is in Cushintown AC led the team finishing a fine 6th overall, with Alison Burke and Zoe Couch running out of their skin finishing 16th and 24th. A great run by both girls especially Zoe who was battling sore knees for the past few weeks and had limited training done since the Leinsters. Rachel Greene, Abbey Corr and Lucy found the going tough but were great back-up for the team. There was great excitement at the presentation when they announced that St Dominics were overall winners of the minor race.

Cliona Murphy was next into action and she battled hard all the way and was doing great in the first half of the race but she tired over the last km and dropped back a few places but she gave everything she had on the day. Pierre was in a very tough inter boys race and was running a perfect race until he had a bad fall on one of the many bends on the course, lost 2 valuable places and couldn’t get back in touch. He still finished 5th in an extremely competitive race and secured his place on the Irish schools team for the schools international in Wales in two weeks time! Well done to all.

The National Inter-Varsity cross country championships will be held along with the All Ireland schools in Belfast this weekend. Best of luck to Niamh Donnelly running for Trinity College, Heather Lougheed and Clare Brennan running for DCU, Olwen Kennedy running for University of Limerick.