In the Tallaght AC 5km road race (4.05.14) Tony Barry (17.26) placed 20^th with Sam Gallagher (a Junior) 25^th in 17.29.  Bob Blake (M40) 31^st in 17.52 and Stephen Dawson 58^th in 18.58 also competed.

The ladies team ran brilliantly to hold onto the Dublin Novice gold. Packing well together Janette Strickland (20.24), Emer Rattigan (20.23) and Sinéad Graham entered the track together where a last push from Sinéad saw her finish first for Donore (20.19) and enough to nab individual bronze in the Novice race, Karla Doran completed the scoring with  (20.50). Also competing were Aisling Swaine (21.02),  Lorraine O’Shea (21.54), Kim Strickland (22.43), Olivia Strickland (23.39) and Mary Murphy (23.53).

Team captain on the day Graham Hopkins described it as “another good day at the office for Donore Harriers” after having led the team home to silver medals in the Leinster Masters Road Championship (6km) at Gowran, Co. Kilkenny on Monday last (5.05.14).

An in-form Newbridge AC team, fresh from their bronze medals success in the recent national road relays, were clear winners on 26 points with their four scorers inside the top dozen. But a solid performance from the Donore Harriers quartet saw them place second on 52 points ahead of 3^rd placed St. Abbans AC on 64 The scoring four were: – Graham Hopkins (20.15) 7^th overall, Will Morris (20.44) 13^th, Garvan Smith (20.51) 15^th and Des Tremble (21.02) 19^th. Graham won a silver individual medal in the M40 category, with Garvan 5^th and Des 7^th in the same class. Will placed 7^th in the M35 category. Graham Hopkins rounded off a clean sweep of silver medals when he joined Will Morris on the scoring Dublin county team. An unfortunate Fergal Swaine had to retire from the race on the second lap due to illness.

In the ARC Cancer Support 10km run in the Phoenix Park, also on Monday, Kevin English (35.08) was the winner with M45 athlete Tom Fagan placing 29^th in 40.35.

There was an array of Donore Harriers athletes competing in the first Dublin Open Graded Meeting at Santry on Wednesday evening 30^th April. Aogan MacDomhnaill came 3^rd in an eventful 3.000m ‘A’ race recording a time  8.49.69 to post a massive Personal Best. John Dunne was running on target for a sub 9 minutes, but faded slightly in the final kilometre before placing 6^th in 9.05.88.

Michael McMahon won out in an exciting race to the finish line in the B 3.000m race recording a time of 9.12.34. In the same race Emmet O’Briain (9.23.93) placed 5^th; Chris Muldoon (9.29.48) 7^th and Ken Norgrove (9.40.34) 10^th.

In the 800m Henry English (2.07.01) came 7^th in the B race; Luke Boland (2.11.73) 5^th in the C; and Killian O’Hora (2.14.31) 2^nd, Tom Fagan (2.30.45) 9^th, Terry Mee (2.57.11) 10^th and Jim McNamara (3.03.28) 11^th  in the D race. Paul Cummins placed 7^th in the B 100 metres in 12.51.

In the DCU Helix 5km on the 30^th April 2014 Declan Raftery placed 14^th in 20.39.

Also competing over the long weekend, Anne Curley finished as second lady in the BHAA RTE 5 mile (30.43), Patrick Moriarty 11th overall (28.20), Terry Mee (36.35), Ann Woodlock (43.51) and Tommy Halton (40.37). Breda Mahony was 5th in the Waterford2Tramore race and Nicola Dowdall and Eilish Joyce ran well in the Boyne 10k.

In the recent Boston Marathon Sean Fox recorded a time of 2.59.28 whilst Shane McAuley completed the course in 3.05.31, Joan McTernan also took part in the historic race with a time of 4.24.54. Well done to all.