John Travers (14.15.16) came 5^th at the Belfast International Meeting held on Wednesday evening 2^nd July. A strong domestic field failed to make inroads into runaway winner Ben St. Lawrence (13. 27.72) from Australia. Unfortunately John Travers failed in his attempt to gain the qualifying standard for the European Athletics Championships due to take place in Zurich next month.

David Campbell (53.08) won a bronze medal in the 400m National under 23 championship at Cork on Sunday (6/7/14).

Mark Dooley lowered his Personal Best by more than 20 seconds when recording a time of 14.59.71 whilst running as a guest in the British Athletics League Division One match at Tooting Bec in South London on Saturday (5/7/14).

Also on Saturday and much closer to home Des Tremble (M40) ran a very fine race to place 8^th in the Clontarf Half-Marathon recording a time of 1.21.52.

On the previous Saturday (28/6/14) Graham Hopkins was the first Donore Harrier home in the Irish Runner 5 mile road race at the Phoenix Park. In wet and blustery conditions Graham (27.43) placed 21^st overall and 4^th in the M40 category. Phil Hennessy M40 (28.16) placed 28^th overall and 5^th in his age group.

Next Harrier home was Stephen Conroy M35 (30.54) placing 93^rd overall. The remaining athletes included: – 299^th Gerard Morris (34.07); 312nd Eoin Daltun (34.29); 360^th Charlie O’Neill M60 (34.55) <1^st in age category>; 374^th Ken Cronin M55 (34.56) and 779^th Dave Wogan M50 (36.37).

Niall Lynch (48.37) running his sixth mountain race of the summer came a creditable 3^rd behind winner Des Kennedy (46.27) of Raheny Shamrocks in the latest Irish Mountain Running Association race at Seefingan on Wednesday evening 2^nd of July. Seefingan, one of the mountains that separates the counties of Wicklow and Dublin, proved a tough challenge and Niall could not keep contact with the 2 leaders.

Over the past fortnight, the ladies have been represented over a wide range of events.  The most unusual was a 5k at 11pm on Shannon Airport’s runway which attracted well over 1000 runners and which Ide Nic Dhomhnaill decided to take part in at the last minute – she was first lady home in an excellent 18.03.