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Celtic’s Belfast Odyssey

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Celtic’s Odyssey Results

Dublin Indoors Day 1

On Friday night next in Santry Alison Armstrong, Hazel English, Sarah Curran and Alex Ceteras are coompeting in the high jump. All need to be out there for 7pm.
Training on Tuesday will be at 12noon for anyone whos free meeting at the hole in the Wall. Evening training will be as usual at 7pm meeting at the hut for everyone else. Wednesday night high jump will be in the Hall at 6pm and anyone doing high jump this weekend in Santry should be there. Training Thur will be at 11 from the Hole in the Wall for everyone. No evening training on Thursday 16 Feb.

Day Two

Great Jump by Sarah
Sarah Curran was the star of the day on the second day of the Northern Ireland indoor championships adding 7cm to her personal best in the high jump. Sarah jumped 1m67cm which would have got a silver medal in the National Semior womens event on Saturday night!  Cliona Murphy was our best performer on the track coming a fine 2nd in the under 17 girlls 800m.  Pierre coming back from illness ran out of steam in the boys 800m  In the National senior championships  Steffi Creaner ran another new pb to win the 200m in fine style. Catherine Mc Manus ran a new pb in the heat of the hurdles but got a bad start in the final and there is no margin for error in a 60m hurdles.   Catherine and Steffi are travelling to Glasgow on Saturday to compete in the Scottish indoors.
Some photos of competition Here    

Day One

Eight Celtic athletes made the trip to Belfast today to compete as guests in the Northern Ireland age group championships in the Odyssey. Everyone enjoyed the day and really enjoyed running and jumping in a beautiful warm stadium. Ciara Hanley was first off and she came 3rd in her heat of the 60m, Eric Duffy was 5th in his heat of the 60m sprint. In the 800m Aoife Corr and Ellen Byrne were both impressive winners of their heats but all the medals went to the runners in the first heat. The girls were 5th and 6th overall. Results were decided on overall times. In the boys 800m Conall Regan finished just a second faster than Jamie Kennedy, James Scanlon  and Luke Hanway our next to finish. Michael Hanley ran very well in his heat of the 800m.  Finn Burke -Power was having his first outing over the 60m hurdles and did really well to make the final finishing a fine 4th. The Lads ran in the relay as guests and finished 2nd in their heat.  Day 2 will be updated tomorrow.

Results Round Up

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Results From Leinster Schools Cross Country
Well done to Aoife Corr and Ellen Byrne on their fantastic runs in the Leinster Schools Cross Country in Santry last Wednesday. Both girls were part of the St Dominic’s team who finished 3rd and who have qulaified for the All Irelands on the 10th of March in Galway. Cliona Murphy and Eva Redmond ran really well in the senior race for St Dominic’s and helped their team to win a silver medals. Olwyn Kennedy and Catherine Conroy also had great runs in the senior race and helped their team from Mount Sacville to finish third, both teams qulaified for the All Ireland in Galway. In the intermediate girls race, Cliona Carthy ran strongly but missed out by one place to qualify for All Irelands. Allison Armstrong running for Coolmine CC ran a great race in the Junior Girls race, finishing 5th and qualifying for the All Irelands on the 10th March
This Saturday(11th Jan.) the Hole in The Wall gang are training in Santry at 10.30. Brian and Dermots group will also be there at 10.30
Training for everyone as usual on Sunday, 11am Hole in the Wall.
Northern Ireland Indoor Championships Arrangements
This Saturday and Sunday we have a number of our younger crew going up to Belfast to compete in the Northern Ireland indoor championships. Athletes born in 1998 and 99 are going on Saturday and the 1997/96 gang are going on Sunday. We need to have a chat after training on Tuesday about travel arrangements for both days. We have 8 booked to go on Saturday and 8 for Sunday.  So maybe 2 or 3 cars each day would do if we can work it out. 
The gang going to Belfast on Sat are meeting at 7.30 at the Breffini Inn, we will contact the Sunday Gang with arrangements later.
Next week is mid-term, on Tuesday there will be training for the secondary school gang (and any primary kids who are off) at 12 o’clock, meeting at the Hole in The Wall. Evening training is at 7 on Tuesday at the usual places. Don’t forget to check the website on monday for updates for the rest of the week.

Information on Dublin Indoor Championships.

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Dublin Indoor Championships – 17th, 18th & 19th February.
The first 3 days of the Dublin Indoors are on the 17th, 18th and 19th of Feb. On the Friday night starting at 7pm in Santry we have the high jumps, long jumps and shot putt competition for under 16 and older. Likely competitors are Sarah, Alex, Shane, Liam, Ciana?
On the Saturday morning 18th Feb starting at 11am in Tallaght stadium the 200m for under 16 through to under 19 will be held.  Likely competitors in the 200m will be Aislin Moore and Ellen Ahearne.
At 12noon on the Saturday we will have all the middle distance events starting with the 500m under 9 and going up to under 19, 800m. athletes expected to take part in these events are Keelin,  Liam, Finn Kilbride Conlon, Hannah, LauraMay, Alice, Emily, Dora, Thomas, Ruby, Katie, Sean, Alison, Ciara,Luke, jamie, james, Oscar, Conall,Ellen, Aoife, Ben, Pierre, Cliona, Daniel, Liam, Catherine, Olwyn, Clare, Aiden, . The next day Sunday starting at 12noon in Santry all the Jumps and shot putt for under 10 through to under 15 will take place.
Jumpers and throwers expected to be there are Liam, Alison x 2, Dora, Patrick, Sean, louis, Emily, Luke, Killian, Ben, James, Conall, Jamie,Hazel Grainne, CiaraAoife, Eric, Andrew,  and any others I have left out. Some people might be away for the mid term so tell me if you are going to be away. Remind me if I have left anyone out. I havnt done the entries yet, I am just letting you know what’s on and where.  
For details on times please check WWW.Dublinathletics.com
More information for Dublin Indoor Championships will be added later. 

Results Update

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Schools Cross Country
Last Wedneday we had our athletes who attend St Dominics in action at the North Leinster schools cross country championships in DCU. Aoife Corr and Ellen Byrne were first into action in the junior girls race. Both girls ran really well finishing 4th and 5th. The 3rd athlete from the school was 13th and the girls finished 2nd team behind a crack Skerries crew. In the Senior Girls race Cliona Murphy also finished 4th  with Eva Redmond close behind and this time the St Dominics team were clear winners of the team event. Next Wednesday 8th Feb the Leinster schoolc cross-country will be held in Santry starting at 12noon. 
Inter-Varsity National Indoor Championship
At the National Inter-Varsity Indoor Championships in Nenagh on Saturday the 4th of February we had our two super-sprinters in action. Catherine Mc Manus won the 60m hurdles and Steffi Creaner won the 200m. In the 60m sprint Steffi came 3rd  and Catherine came 4th both girls running new personal best times. The two girls were on the DCU team which won the 4x200m relay. Well done girls! 

Training for Tuesday 24th. January and on wards

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Training Times and Locations
Training as usual on Tuesday night for everyone at 7pm. Sara Jane, Eric and Abbey should go to Dominic’s. Everyone else except the usual Hall Circuit gang are to go to the Hut. On Wednesday night improver high jump in Bosco’s School Assembly Hall starts at 6pm.  On Thursday the East and West Leinsters are on (11am for the Wests Leinster’s in the Phoenix Park at the Popes Cross). Thursday night training at Bosco’s Hall for all. Alison, Finn, Abbey, Sara Jane, Eric, Ciara are to go to Dominics with the usual gang.
On Saturday the Hole in The Wall Gang are to go to Santry for 10.30am warm up. Dermot’s Saturday morning group should also be there at 10.30 as usual. At 11 am in Santry we will do long jump with any of the little ones who want to come out.  Alison, Eric, Finn should come out to do some sprinting/Block work ,also at 11, if they are free. Bring spikes if you have them. If the weather forecast is bad I will text around on Friday  evening.
Sunday as usual we will meet at 11 at the Hole in the Wall.