Dublin Senior Cross Country win

History was made on Santry Demesne today when Ide Nic Dhomhnaill became the first Donore Harriers woman to win the Dublin senior cross country championship. A mild day with no wind and a dry course with 1500m laps which the women did 4 laps of, 4 Donore women took to the line.

Ide ran a smart race, staying back from the early pace when Crusaders runner Niamh Allen took it out. But she closed her down as the race went on and put daylight between her and Allen who faded to 5th. In the end Ide prevailed and won by a very good margin on DSD’s Meghan Ryan in an historic victory. Ide’s twin Sorcha came 7th and for a large part of the race ran in tandem with Crusaders Orla Drumm. Next in 8th place was Sinead Lambe who had the difficult task of running a large part of the race on her own. Maura Kearns worked her way through the field and had her trademark sprint finish finishing 17th. It was enough to bring the team a bronze medal, just 6 points off silver.

Winner of the team gold and Jim McNamara cup were Crusaders. Jim’s son James and daughter Andrea were on hand to make the presentation afterwards in the Clonliffe bar.

In the men’s race, there wasn’t a complete Donore team but Niall Lynch was 20th (after running the marathon last week), Emmet Ó Briain 32nd and Javier Romero 45th