The club’s Slater Cup and Eddie Hogan Cup races were held at the magazine fort on Saturday – Alasdair Brown has a great gallery of pictures from the races on the club’s Facebook page. Thanks to Willie Smith for setting out the course today and to Iain Morrison, Joe Murphy and Willie for timekeeping and results. Thankfully, the rain showers cleared just as it got underway. The men did 5 laps of a roughly 1.2k lap and the women ran 3 laps. The Slater cup is the Donore Harriers men’s novice championship and is a sealed handicap – winner of the Slater cup was Stephen Dawson. First Novice lady was Alma Hanevy. First man over the line was novice men’s captain Rossa Hurley and first lady over the line was Sorcha Nic Dhomhnaill who beat her twin sister Ide by one second!

There were also two Donore athletes in the Amsterdam marathon: Noel Davis in 3.54.08, and Peter Bonnar was just outside the 4 hours in 4.00.06, which was a big PB!