John Travers (8.12.80) easily won the Irish Milers Club 3.000m race at the Crusaders GV Ryan Meet at Irishtown track on Saturday (14.06.14) finishing about 100 metres clear of runner-up Gary Murray (8.24.61) of St. Malachy’s AC.

Ray Hynes (8.27.23) came a very fine fourth in the same race and continues to show improved form. Lee Van Haeften (8.42.52) placed 8th. It was great to see the Donore Harriers vest so much to the fore in a very competitive race!  

In the 1500m ‘A’ Race Eric Keogh (3.53.71) placed a very respectable 9th in another highly competitive field.

Earlier in the week Eric Keogh also competed in an 800m Dublin Championship race incorporated into the Dublin Open Graded Series (No. 4 on 11.06.14), also at Irishtown track. Eric recorded a time of 1.55.73 to place 3rd.

In the Dublin Championship 100 metres Eamon Fahey (11.23) came 5th with 16 years old Sean Lawlor (11.28) 7th.  

In the 800m ‘B’ race Emmet O’Briain (2.03.20) came 3rd and Luke Boland (2.09.03) 8th. Zak Higgins (55.36), another 16 years old, won the 400m ‘B’ race.     

In the Dublin Juvenile Track & Field Championships at Tallaght (8.06.14) Oisin Fitzgibbon placed 3rd in the Boys under 18s 3000m in a time of 9.35.3, whilst Sam Gallagher (10.24.0) came 4th in what was his first track race. On the previous day Oisin Fitzgibbon recorded a PB of 4.20.6 when placing 7th in a keenly contested Boys u/18s 1500m race.

The girls under 15 team took gold for the 4th year in a row with, our under 15 boys with the help of super sub Louis McDonagh finished 3rd,  under 17 girls team also took gold and the boys under 19 finished the night off with a third place finish 

Also at the weekend Terry Mee ran in the Braveheart Trail 5k Niamh O’Boyle 6th lady in the Monasterevin 10K 42.09