Our men’s and ladies teams travelled to Cork Institute of Technology’s impressive venue for a tough assignment with lots of confidence. Our men recorded 9 individual wins, which was fantastic and at the end of the competition topped the table of 9 clubs with 118 points from Limerick A. C. with 112 points. Overall it was a great team performance, with tremendous support from coaches, parents and club administrators.

This result means that our men lead the overall points total with 241 points from Co.Kildare in 2n place with 240 points, so competition in the final on 14 August will be very serious. However, our team are up for it and have only one thing on their mind, winning the National title. Well done to this young team and in particular to Dave
Campbell, our track and field captain for his work during the summer.

Our ladies team with a weakened team performed very well despite the depleted team with 2 individual wins. They went into the second Leg with a good chance of qualifying but at the end of the day with a combined total of 160 points, this wasn’t enough to get into the final. However, this was our first time in this event for many years and the experience has been very positive our ladies have every reason to feel confident about the future, particularly with several young members coming through from juvenile ranks. Well done to all our athletes and of course our coaches.

On a hot morning at the Clontarf 5 Mile on Saturday Lee Vanhaeften performed will to win in 28:34 with Des Tremble finishing in an impressive third place in 29:22, the ladies were represented by Hilary O’Connor 45:28.