We were blessed with fine weather over the weekend. Some might have found it even too warm, especially in the Terenure 5 miler that took place on Sunday morning in brilliant sunshine. It might have been overly hot for road racing, but those on the track would have enjoyed it, and it showed.

Saturday saw the second meet of the Irish Milers Club in the annual event organised by the Belfast Milers Club on the Mary Peters Track in Lisburn. We had 6 athletes take part in the races there. Hugo Magee won the men’s International 400m in a super 46.95, whilst both Charlotte Myers and Enda Clarke won their races too. Charlotte ran in the women’s 800m B race, winning in 2:10.00, whilst Enda beat the field in the men’s 800m G race in a time of 2:04.92. Once again, Annie Hughes and Saoirse McGrath ran together in an 800m race, this time the F event, with Annie placing 2nd in a PB time of 2:17.28, followed by Saoirse who ran 2:20.31 for 6th spot. Finally, Alex Ainsworth ran a satisfying 2:01.26 for 3rd place in the 800m F race.

Then, on Sunday, the second afternoon of the Dublin graded meets took place at the Morton Stadium. Emily Lyne won heat 1 of both rounds of the women’s 200m A grade race in, respectively, 24.82 (a PB) and 25.03. In the process, Emily took the Dublin Championship bronze. In the men’s grade C 1500m event, Henry Griffin placed 3rd in 4:28.38. Then, in the grade D races, Edward Forester placed 7th in heat 1 in 4:50.36, whilst Karl Fitzmaurice ran 4:44.53 for 10th place in heat 2.

We had several runners in each of the two rounds of the 200m. In the first heat of round 1 of the grade B event, Saad Ashraf placed 3rd in 23.58, followed by Jack Byrne (4th in 23.69). Leo Gormley ran in the second heat where he placed 2nd in 22.81. Then, in the only heat of round 2, Leo placed 2nd in 23.22, followed by Saad (4th in 23.32) and Jack (6th in 23.87).

Liam Beaumont ran in both rounds of the 200m grade C race, where he placed, respectively 4th in 24.60 and 3rd in 24.54. Finally, on the track, Shane Carroll placed 2nd in 19:23.33 in the 5,000m grade D event.

We had one athlete take part in the field events on offer. James Quinn took 10th spot in the discus with his 5th throw of 6 in 26.79m.

Road racing this week started on Thursday evening with the largely flat Drivalia Sandyford 5k. Aoife Quigley distinguished herself with the win in the women’s race, placing 31st overall in the 673-strong field and recording a time of 19:09. Just ahead of her came Gary Park, placing 29th and 2nd in the M50 age category in 18:57. Next across the line came Joanne Carey in 72nd and 9th places (and likely 2nd F40, with Aoife and another athlete in the same age category podiuming in the women’s race) in 21:04, followed by Tanja Narancic (106th and 14th in 22:14), Olwyn Dunne (125th, 23rd and 3rd F50 in 22:51), Charlotte Rufié (135th and 27th in 23:13), Lisa Shine (258th and 70th in 26:28), Lorraine McMahon (317th and 99th in 27:49), Máirín Shine (381st, 135th and 5th F60 in 28:50), Stephen Hurley (459th in 30:41), Daniel O’Mahony (467th in 30:42) alongside Cecilia Sandre (468th and 182nd in 30:43) and Carina Davidson (533rd and 221st in 33:06). Olwyn was a member of the winning women’s team, whilst Lisa and Máirín were scorers on the third placed women’s team.

There was another evening race on which to report. This was a 5k in Leixlip in which Alan Sheehy and Tomás Bradley competed. In a field of 288, Alan placed 23rd in 17:42, followed by Tom (41st in 18:20).

We had at least 30 club members take part in the annual Sportsworld-organised Terenure 5-mile race, that was staged on Sunday morning. Conditions were quite warm on a course run on two loops with a couple of drags to deal with but otherwise largely flat. Following his recent success in the London Marathon, Daragh O’Reilly ran a super race, placing 6th in 26:14, behind race winner (by a country mile) Pierre Murchan. There was quite a battle for second place between Tomás Fitzpatrick and Peter Somba, with Tom just managing to hold off Peter at the end despite having shielded him for a good part of the last stages of the race.

Daragh was followed by Ciarain Kelly (6th in 26:14) and then by Michael O’Conor not so far back in 20th spot in a time of 28:21. The 4th scorer on the men’s team was Sean Murphy (127th in 32:54) and between them the team took 4th place.

Yvonne Macauley was our first female athlete to cross the line. She placed 84th and 7th in 31:39, followed by Kabir Sala (150th in 33:11), Nina Holmes (153rd, 11th and 3rd F40 in 33:28) and Orla O’Flynn (224th, 20th and 2nd F55 in 35:11). Yvonne, Nina, Orla and Sharon Woods, who placed 297th, 31st and 3rd F55 with a PB time of 36:31), placed 2nd in the senior women’s team competition behind DSD and ahead of Raheny.

Behind Orla came Noel Carr (226th in 35:09) and he was followed immediately by Michael Fitzsimons (227th in 35:15) and then by Neil Brown (296th in 36:11), Sharon, Robbie Moore (330th in 37:26), just ahead of Luke Haran (331st in 36:42), Olwyn Dunne (353rd, 44th and 4th F55 in 37:50), Chris Bannon (413th in 38:49), Kate Murray (447th and 73rd in 39:11), Anna Brown (463rd and 81st in 39:41) and Alan Martin (509th in 39:51).

Next came Kevin Kenny (579th in 41:12) and he was followed by Patrick Needham (601st in 40:55), Kelly Brown (687th and 177th in 43:22), Lorraine McMahon (876th and 289th in 46:06), Carina Davidson (948th and 330th in 47:55) alongside Michelle English (949th and 331st in 47:37). Cynthia Perucca and Paul F. Kelly were our last recorded runners, placing, respectively, 1103rd and 435th in 50:33 and 1112th in 50:48. Lisa Branigan, Niamh Trihy and Aitor Arribas Velasco took part in the race. However, their results were not recorded. As always, there was a fine spread of most inappropriate goodies after the race!
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Further afield last week, Toby Benham ran in the Silverstone 10k which took place on the Formula One race track. In a field of 1706, he placed 35th in a PB time of 35:08. Further south, on Wimbledon Common, Kate O’Malley and Rob Glascott, two of our London-based exiles, ran in the first race of the 5-mile trail series there. In a field of 254, Kate placed 49th and 5th in 32:46, with Rob placing 87th in 35:23. Finally, on Sunday, one of our exiles in Switzerland, Lukasz Batruch, took part in the hot Geneva Marathon, where he placed 217th overall in a time of 3:00:34.

There were three races organised in Co. Wicklow by IMRA last week. On Wednesday, there was a 9k race around Sugar Bowl, with a climb of 575m. In a field of 213, Donatas Jocius placed 5th in 54:57, followed by Paul McNamara (32nd in 63:48), Caoimhe Dempsey (70th and 6th in 70:49) and Gavan Doherty (96th in 76:25). The second race took place on Saturday morning on Log Na Coille. The 10.5k race enjoyed a climb of 700m with a field of 59. Jason Kehoe placed 9th in 68:41, followed by Becky Quinn (17th and 2nd in 72:01). Finally, on Sunday, Becky took part in a round of the Munster Championships in Co. Tipperary. On a 10k course with a climb of 580m on Slievanamon, Becky placed 14th and 2nd in a time of 61:03. The field measured 64.
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Despite the good weather, numbers generally seemed to be lower than of late in Saturday morning’s parkruns. Nevertheless, we had a decent turnout, with a good few podium places.

Dee Lawlor led the field of 493 home in Marlay Park, finishing with a time of 17:37. He was followed there by Barry O’Neill (215th in 27:30), Ciara Lynch (249th and 65th in 28:27) and Carina Davidson, tailwalking.

Maurice Kelter marked a return to his native Tralee with a first finisher place in 17:05 in a field of 268. Then, Conor Kilkenny crossed the line ahead of the field of 77 in Omagh, running a time of 18:14, whilst Ross Neill was also first to finish on Wexford Racecourse, where he ran 18:44 ahead of 113 other runners.

Our last first finisher was in Poolbeg. Ciara Regan placed 26th and 1st in 21:40 among a field of 207 and at least 21 Crusaders. Kenan Furlong took 2nd spot in 17:48, and he was followed by Alby Allan (5th in 19:45), Adrian Groarke (13th in 20:00), John Lohan (35th in 22:19), Sharon Woods (42nd and 2nd in 23:16), Aoife McCarthy (46th and 3rd in 23:25), Mikel Crisostomo (57th in 23:54), Laura O’Malley (69th and 8th in 24:41), Kabir Sala (72nd in 24:52) alongside Russell Murphy (73rd in the same time), Joanne Carey (80th and 10th in 24:24), Tanja Narancic (81st and 11th in 25:29), ahead of Aitor Arribas Velasco (84th in 25:33) alongside Olwyn Dunne (85th and 14th in 25:34). Next came Tara Murphy (100th and 21st in 26:51), followed by Aisling O’Riordan (103rd and 23rd in 27:13), Fergal Morrissey (109th in 27:23), Djinn Von Noorden (128th and 39th in 28:43), Kevin Kenny (147th in 29:52) and Maureen McGinley (164th and 64th in 31:37).  

Luke Clarke headed to Glasgow where he ran alongside 340 other runners in Pollok parkrun, placing 3rd in 18:41, whilst, back home, Irene Gorman took 47th and 3rd spots in St. Anne’s with its field of 518. Irene’s time was 21:28. In Limerick in a 192-strong field, Kev Moore placed 21st in 21:09, followed closely by Mary Donnelly (22nd and 3rd in 21:15), whilst Sarah Lyons and Phelim Murray ran again in Tolka Valley Park, where Phelim placed 11th in 24:47, followed by Sarah who placed 18th and 5th in the field of 56 in 25:38. Niall O’Connell was our lone runner on the Midleton Greenway, where, alongside 148 other participants, he placed 8th in 20:14, whilst Mairead Cashman ran once again in Youghal’s Pobalscoil Na Tríonóide parkrun with its field of 35. Mairead placed 23rd and 10th in 29:27. Kate Murray took on Lough Key, where, in a field of 133, she ran 29:34 for 58th and 23rd spots, whilst, in Fairview, Catriona Egan joined 145 other runners, where she placed 64th and 18th in 28:04.  

We had 3 runners in Shanganagh, where David Carter took 12th place in 20:10, Franky Keane placed 32nd in 22:37 and Orlaith de Burca finished in 143rd and 43rd places in 29:25 in the field of 224, whilst, in Cabinteely, Lisa Shine took 132nd and 58th spots in 34:58, followed by Máirín Shine (141st and 62nd in 37:02) in a field of 174.

Paul F. Kelly was joined by Aoife Kelly, making a comeback to parkrunning, in Poppintree with its field of 180. Paul placed 32nd in 23:36, followed by Aoife (129th and 45th in 31:54), whilst, further afield, Toby Benham ran in Rugby where he placed 6th in a field of 210 in a time of 19:47, and Deirdre Kennedy ran once again in Centennial Park in Sydney where, in a field of 477, she placed 233rd in 27:59.

Drivalia Sandyford 5k (673)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Mark Kirwan 1 00:16:08
31 Aoife Quigley 1 00:19:09
Crusaders AC runners
29 Gary Park 00:18:57
31 Aoife Quigley 00:19:09 (1)
72 Joanne Carey 00:21:04 (9)
106 Tanja Narancic 00:22:14 (14)
125 Olwyn Dunne 00:22:51 (23)
135 Charlotte Rufié 00:23:13 (27)
258 Lisa Shine 00:26:28 (70)
317 Lorraine McMahon 00:27:49 (99)
381 Mairín Shine 00:28:50 (135)
 459 Stephen Hurley 00:30:41
467 Daniel O’Mahony 00:30:42
468 Cecilia Sandre 00:30:43 (182)
533 Carina Davidson 00:33:06 (221)
Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/drivalia-sandyford-5k-2025/
Leixlip 5k (288)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Sean Doran 1 00:15:17
8 Aoife Coffey 1 00:16:45
Crusaders AC runners
23 Alan Sheehy 00:17:42
41 Tomás Bradley 00:18:20
Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/leixlip-5k-road-race-2025/
Sportsworld Terenure 5 miler (1371)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Pierre Murchan 1 00:24:11
28 Meghan Ryan 1 00:28:54
Crusaders AC runners
6 Darah O’Reilly 00:26:14
16 Ciarain Kelly 00:28:03
20 Michael O’Conor 00:28:21
84 Yvonne Macaulay 00:31:39 (7)
127 Sean Murphy 00:32:54
150 Kabir Sala 00:33:11
153 Nina Holmes 00:33:28 (11)
224 Orla O’Flynn 00:35:11 (20)
226 Noel Carr 00:35:09
227 Michael Fitzsimons 00:35:15
296 Neil Brown 00:36:11
297 Sharon Woods 00:36:31 (PB) (31)
330 Robbie Moore 00:37:26
331 Luke Haran 00:36:42
353 Olwyn Dunne 00:37:50 (44)
413 Chris Bannon 00:38:49
447 Kate Murray 00:39:11 (73)
463 Anna Brown 00:39:41 (81)
509 Alan Martin 00:39:51
579 Kevin Kenny 00:41:12
601 Patrick Needham 00:40:51
687 Kelly Brown 00:43:22 (177)
876 Lorraine McMahon 00:46:06 (289)
948 Carina Davidson 00:47:55 (330)
949 Michelle English 00:47:37 (331)
1103 Cynthia Perucca 00:50:33 (435)
1112 Paul E. Kelly 00:50:48
Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/sportsworld_terenure_5_mile_2025/5524/results
IMRA Sugarloaf 9K (213)  
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Mark McAdden 1 00:52:37
19 Sorcha Loughnane 1 00:59:56
Crusaders AC runners
5 Donatas Jocius 00:54:57
32 Paul McNamara 01:03:48
70 Caoimhe Dempsey 01:10:49 (6)
96 Gavan Doherty 01:16:25
Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2659
IMRA Log Na Coille (via Ballineddan) 10.5k (59)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Matthew McConnell 1 00:56:54
15 Caroline Harney 1 01:11:12
Crusaders AC runners
9 Jason Kehoe 01:08:41
17 Becky Quinn 01:12:01 (2)
Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2673
​IMRA Slievenamon 10k (64)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Killian Mooney 1 00:47:51
13 Dee Collins 1 01:00:13
Crusaders AC runner
14 Becky Quinn 01:01:03 (2)
Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2610
Pobalscoil Na Tríonóide Parkrun (35)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Noel Early 1 00:18:57
4 Shannon Sotok 1 00:21:46
Crusaders AC runner
23 Mairead Cashman 00:29:27 (10)
Tolka Valley Parkrun (56)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Paul Fleming 1 00:17:30
5 Aleksandra Sobota 1 00:22:54
Crusaders AC runners
11 Phelim Murray 00:24:47
18 Sarah Lyons 00:25:38 (5)
Lough Key Parkrun (133)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 David Popplewell 1 00:18:50
2 Leah Lawler 1 00:19:17
Crusaders AC runner
58 Kate Murray 00:29:34 (23)
Wexford Racecourse Parkrun (114)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Ross Neill 1 00:18:44
10 Annemarie Doyle 1 00:22:26
Crusaders AC runner
1 Ross Neill 00:18:44
Poolbeg Parkrun (207)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Christopher O’Reilly 1 00:17:40
26 Ciara Regan 1 00:21:40
Crusaders AC runners
2 Kenan Furlong 00:17:48
5 Alby Allan 00:19:45
13 Adrian Groarke 00:20:00
35 John Lohan 00:22:19
42 Sharon Woods 00:23:16 (2)
46 Aoife McCarthy 00:23:25 (3)
57 Mikel Crisostomo 00:23:54
69 Laura O’Malley 00:24:41 (8)
72 Kabir Sala 00:24;52
73 Russell Murphy 00:24:52
80 Joanne Carey 00:25:24 (10)
81 Tanja Narancic 00:25:29 (11)
84 Aitor Arribas Velasco 00:25:33
85 Olwyn Dunne 00:25:34 (14)
100 Tara Murphy 00:26:51 (21)
103 Aisling O’Riordan 00:27:13 (23)
109 Fergal Morrissey 00:27:23
128 Djinn Von Noorden 00:28:43 (39)
147 Kevin Kenny 00:29:52
164 Maureen McGinley 00:31:37 (64)
Omagh Parkrun (77)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Conor Kilkenny 1 00:18:14
19 Heather Beattie 1 00:23:20
Crusaders AC runner
1 Conor Kilkenny 00:18:14
Limerick Parkrun (192)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Barry Murphy 1 00:17:46
8 Anna Feenan 1 00:19:40
Crusaders AC runners
21 Kev Moore 00:21:09
22 Mary Donnelly 00:21:15
Marlay Parkrun (493)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Derek Lawlor 1 00:17:37
10 Lauren McCambridge 1 00:20:18
Crusaders AC runners
1 Derek Lawlor 00:17:37
215 Barry O’Neill 00:27:30
249 Ciara Lynch 00:28:27 (65)
492 Carina Davidson 00:52:57
St. Anne’s Parkrun (518)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Brian Sexton 1 00:17:37
20 Laura White 1 00:19:39
Crusaders AC runner
47 Irene Gorman 00:21:28 (3)
Tralee Parkrun (268)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Maurice Kelter 1 00:17:05
31 Sarah Brosnan 1 00:23:58
Crusaders AC runner
1 Maurice Kelter 00:17:05
Cabinteely Parkrun (174)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 John Golden 1 00:19:29
16 Jennelyn Villocino 1 00:23:21
Crusaders AC runners
132 Lisa Shine 00:34:58 (58)
141 Máirín Shine 00:37:02 (62)
Poppintree Parkrun (180)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Paddy Murphy 1 00:17:55
18 Kate Cleary 1 00:22:27
Crusaders AC runners
32 Paul F. Kelly 00:23:36
129 Aoife Kelly 00:31:54 (45)
Fairview Parkrun (146)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
2 Chun Man Tam 1 00:19:01
9 Ulrike Weiss 1 00:22:24
Crusaders AC runner
64 Catriona Egan 00:28:04 (18)
Midleton Greenway Parkrun (149)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Mark Cronin 1 00:18:04
5 Siobhan Horgan 1 00:19:44
Crusaders AC runner
8 Niall O’Connell 00:20:14
Shanganagh Parkrun (224)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Odhran Caoilte 1 00:18:55
11 Karla Murray 1 00:19:35
Crusaders AC runners
12 David Carter 00:20:10
32 Franky Keane 00:22:37
143 Orlaith de Burca 00:29:25 (43)

The May bank holiday weekend witnessed two outdoor track and field events, one in the Morton Stadium in Santry and the other in Clonmel. We had athletes in both. We also had club members take part in the marathons and half marathons in Belfast and Limerick that are also a traditional feature of this time of year.

We start with events on the track and in the field in Santry, the first Co. Dublin graded meeting of the year. On a windy day, Juliette McCloskey was active in a couple of events, placing 2nd in heat 1 of the first round of the grade C 100m in a time of 13:20, followed by a 4th place (and bronze in the Dublin championships) in the women’s long jump with a distance of 4.62m in her first jump of the competition. Juliette did not contest the second round of the 100m. It was great to see Emily Sheils back in competitive action,  placing 2nd in the grade A 3,000m and winning the gold medal in the Dublin championships with a time of 10:25.20. Ladies’ captain Kathryn Gibbons also took part in the same race, where she placed 9th in 11:12.88. There were 2 rounds in the men’s 100m too. In the grade A first round heat 1, Luke Timlin placed 4th in 10.81, and then placing 7th in round 2 heat 2 in 10.83, whilst Cillian Doherty and Sean Owens ran in heat 2 in the first round, with Cillian placing 2nd in 10.67, followed by Sean (4th in 10.79). Then, in round 2, Cillian placed 5th in heat 1 in a PB time of 10.61, whilst Sean ran in the same heat as Luke, placing 3rd in 10.72.

In rounds 1 and 2 of the grade B 100m, Charlie Bastow won both his races. In heat 1 of the first round he ran 11.19, followed by 11.00 in the second round. Saad Ashraf also won his grade C first round heat in 11.47, followed by another win in the second round in 11.39. Masahiro ran 11.55 for 4th place in his grade C first round event, followed by 11.52 for 4th in the second round. Finally, Dan Sheridan ran in two races of the grade D 100m where he placed, respectively, 5th in 12.35 and 7th in 13.55.

In the men’s 3,000m, Luke Clarke ran in the A grade event where he placed 14th in 9:33.67. Then in the grade B race, Brian Regan recorded a PB with his 4th place finish in 9:36.54. In the same race, men's captain Joe McDermott placed 12th in 10:07.56, followed by Shane Carroll (14th in 11:00.81). Henry Griffin ran in heat 2 of the grade C 800m where he placed 8th in 2:09.80, and Karl Fitzmaurice placed 5th in 2:20.14 in heat 1 of the grade D event. Gary Park took part in the 2,000m steeplechase, where he placed 3rd in 7:43.30. Finally, on the track, Luke Timlin joined as anchor leg on the Irish (Green) U20 4 x100m relay team which placed 3rd in 40.88.

In the field on the day, Dylan Jones placed 3rd with his 3rd throw of 44.12m in the hammer, whilst we occupied the two top podium positions in the men’s shot put. Conor Quinn won the event with his 4th throw of 14.18m and Henry Moylan took 2nd place with a throw of 11.04 on his 6th and final attempt.

The Irish Milers Club staged an event, again the first of the season, in Clonmel on Saturday afternoon. Alex Ainsworth placed 6th in the D grade 1,500m in a time of 4:14.98. Then, in the grade C race Barry McCarthy ran 4:19.56 for 10th spot. In the women’s 800m A race, Charlotte Myers placed 4th in 2:10.03, her fastest run since coming to Ireland, whilst in the B race of the same distance Annie Hughes took 5th spot in 2:19.34, followed closely by Saoirse McGrath (6th in 2:22.06), both recording PB times.

In terms of road racing this weekend, there was the Belfast marathon, where, in a field of 5218 finishers, on the hilly course Marcus Phelan improved his marathon time by 8 minutes to 3:25:27 for 712th spot, and he was followed by Ryan Preston (1545th in 3:46:26) and Lloyd Hamilton (3327th in 4:25:11).

Down in Limerick we had runners in the full and half marathons there. In the full marathon, Mark Culleton ran a 3-minute PB improvement with 3:03:56 for 97th place in a field of 1,412 finishers. Then in the half we had at least 10 participants. In the field of 4,537 finishers, the contingent was led home by Paul Reidy in 55th place with a time of 82:29 and he was followed by Eugene McDonough who held on during the tough second half to place 71st in 83:39. Eugene was followed by Kev Moore (161st in 88:55) and by Mary Donnelly (365th overall and 37th female finisher in 94:51), Kevin Kavanagh pacing his brother Joseph (588th in 99:10), Luke Haran (625th in 99:45), Emily Glen (634th and 84th female finisher in 99:54), Aoife McCarthy (1347th and 248th in 1:49:23), and then by Lisa Shine (2388th and 678th in 1:59:21) and Máirín Shine (3522nd overall, 1,315th female finisher and 4th F65 in 2:13:55). In the warm conditions in Limerick, apparently there were plenty of local residents on the route with their hose pipes out to keep everyone cool in the sunshine! In the enormous field of 7,439, Lorraine McMahon ran in the 6-mile race, where she placed 1941st overall and 190th female finisher in 56:23.

Elsewhere, Donatas Jocius took part in a 2-day ultra in Co. Kerry, the Waterville Trail Running festival. On the first day he ran 25.5k in 2h20m and then on the second he ran 42.8k in 4h46m. Daniel O’Mahony took part in the same event where he ran respectively 2h27m and 5h46m. The festival may be a qualifying event for the UTMB. On the subject of ultra running, Charles Cartledge took part in the Thames towpath 100 miles ultra marathon over the weekend in the UK. Despite feeling slightly unwell about 60k into the event, Charles finished the race in 29 hours and 45 minutes, 15 minutes before the cut off time! Then, Ciara Regan ran in the West of Ireland women’s mini marathon in Co. Mayo. In the 10k race, Ciara recorded a time of 41:46 on the windy and hilly course to place 7th overall. The full results are yet to be published, and, once they are, the report will be updated. Eddie Nugent joined more than 1500 runners for the Drogheda 10k where he placed 60th in 40:45. Finally, on Bank Holiday Monday, Kiera Roche, who is 34 weeks pregnant, joined a field of more than 1200 runners in the North West 10k in Donegal where she helped pace her sister, running an amazing 53:28. Results are yet to be published.

There were several Wings for Life runs around Europe over the weekend. Anna Hoesl ran 30.6k in 2h27m in Germany, whilst Lukasz Batruch paced the 20k runners in Switzerland, which he did in 1h47m. Also, far afield, Esther Requena Ferri and Cristian Vilchez Ceballos, two of our Spanish exiles, ran in a couple of races in the past few days. Midweek they ran in the 10k Torre del Mar in Velez-Malaga, with Cristian placing 3rd overall in 36:41 and Esther winning the female race in 39:55. Then, over the weekend, Cristian placed 3rd again in the Carrera Cruz de Humilladero. The distance was about 4.7k and Esther ran 17:35 and Cristian, 15:36. In London, Phelim Murray and Sarah Lyons ran in the Victoria Park 5k. Phelim’s result was not recorded, but Sarah ran 22:20 for 29th and 4th spots in a field of just under 200.

There was another midweek race in the Irish mountains last week. The event was an 8k race in the Dublin mountains around Carrickgollogan with a climb of 280m. 170 runners completed the event, among them at least 8 Crusaders. The contingent was led home by Brendan Murphy in 4th place with a time of 34:15 about 40s behind the winner. Brendan was followed by Jason Kehoe (18th in 38:20), with Clare Sullivan and Becky Quinn next. Clare placed 23rd overall and 2nd female finisher in 39:00, followed by Becky (25th and 3rd in 39:09). On a return from injury, Warren Swords placed 34th in 41:01, followed by Ollie McGrath (41st in41:49). The contingent was completed by Caoimhe Dempsey (62nd and 11th in 45:19) and Gavan Doherty (90th in 49:34). Finally, in Southern France, Valentin Akdim, our exile in Bordeaux, ran in the Trail de Mourtis, where he placed 18th in 6h28m on the 46km course in the mountains.

Taking advantage of the good bank holiday weather, parkrunners were out in force on Saturday morning. However, Michael O’Conor was our only first finisher in ireland, running in his native Listowel where he headed a field of 42 in 17:49. Nevertheless, we also had a first finisher in the UK, where Thomas Vogée ran in Kesgrave once again, crossing the line ahead of 327 other runners in a time of 17:48. Dee Lawlor ran in Marlay Park where, in a field of 610, he placed 3rd in 17:40, followed by Lisa Branigan and Aaron Farrell running side by side. Lisa placed 316th and 90th in 28:50, with Aaron being given 317th spot in the same time. As usual we had our biggest contingent in the 232-strong field in Poolbeg. Kenan Furlong took 3rd place in 17:51, followed by Stephen Hurley (4th in 18:08). Next came Pat Quill (20th in 21:37), followed by John Lohan (31st in 22:12), Josie Ward (39th and 2nd in 22:49), Kevin Kenny (54th in 23:38), Sharon Woods (63rd and 4th in 24:15), Franky Keane (85th in 25:28), Alan Martin (96th in 26:11), Djinn Von Noorden (105th and 19th in 26:31) and Tanja Narancic (118th and 24th in 27:06) alongside Aitor Arribas Velasco (119th in 27:07). Aisling O’Riordan (128th and 29th in 27:38) was next, followed by Mari Hansen (163rd and 49th in 29:47) and Maureen McGinley (179th and 61st in 30:45) completing the picture.

In Father Collins Park, Mikel Crisostomo placed 23rd in 22:34 as part of a longer run, followed, in the field of 156, by Emer Kenny (61st and 13th in 26:45). Chris Bannon and Darina Scully joined 131 other runners in River Valley Park, where Chris placed 21st in 24:23, whilst Darina helped pace the 28 minutes runners, placing 50th and 15th in 27:36.  Maria Pertl was our sole runner in Tolka Valley Park where, alongside 67 other participants, she placed 36th and 11th in 28:49. Ciara McElligott ran in Killarney House parkrun, where, in a field of 147, she placed 111th and 41st in 32:46.

Meanwhile, before running in the Limerick half on Sunday, Máirín and Lisa Shine joined 50 other runners in Illanmanaugh near Limerick, where Máirín placed 25th and 13th in 35:01, followed by Lisa who placed 27th and 14th in 35:03. In Midleton Greenway Lorraine McMahon placed 55th and 14th in 28:09 in a field of 142, whilst Ross Neill joined a substantial field of 617 in Ormeau Park in Belfast where he placed 12th in 19:03.

Mairead Cashman headed to Bere Island in Co. Cork where she ran 33:36 for 31st and 16th spots in a field of 84, whilst, in a field of 626, we had three Crusaders in St. Anne’s Raheny. Kabir Sala placed 97th in 22:59, followed by Michael Maughan (121st in 23:24) and Bo Chicoine (204th in 26:06). Paul F. Kelly joined 229 other runners in Poppintree where he placed 59th in 25:03, whilst Olwyn Dunne placed 105th and 28th in 30:06, pacing the 30-minute runners, in Cabinteely. Olwyn was joined by Carina Davidson in the 203-strong field, with Carina placing 169th and 64th in 40:13 as she continues her rehab.
We had two runners in Shanganagh with its field of 341 participants. Aoife McCarthy ran 23:35 for 73rd and 19th spots, followed by Jill Nason (223rd and 75th in 29:31). Meanwhile, in London, our exiles ran in Gunnersbury and Battersea. In the former, Thom Martini ran 36:05 for 635th spot in a field of 761, whilst in the latter with its field of 1,000 participants, Rob Glascott placed 71st in 19:24.  
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Limerick Half marathon (4537)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Chris Leuken 1 01:08:40
33 Alex Murphy 1 01:19:55
Crusaders AC runners
55 Paul Reidy 01:22:29
71 Eugene McDonough 01:23:39
161 Kev Moore 01:28:55
365 Mary Donnelly 01:34:51 (37)
588 Kevin Kavanagh 01:39:10
625 Luke Haran 01:39:45
634 Emily Glen 01:39:54 (84)
1347 Aoife McCarthy 01:49:23 (248)
2388 Lisa Shine 01:59:21 (678)
3522 Máirín Shine 02:13:55 (1315)
Full results here: https://greatlimerickrun.com/
Limerick marathon (1412)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Pawel Kosek 1 02:25:54
16 Ava Crean 1 02:43:39
Crusaders AC runner
97 Mark Culleton 03:03:56 (PB)
Full results here: https://greatlimerickrun.com/
Limerick 6-miler (7439)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 John Travers 1 00:29:24
12 Sinead O’Connor 1 00:34:32
Crusaders AC runner
1941 Lorraine McMahon 00:56:23 (190)
Full results here: https://greatlimerickrun.com/
Belfast Marathon (5218)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Tilahun Nigussie 1 02:13:37
19 Millicent Kibet 1 02:38:30
Crusaders AC runners
712 Marcus Phelan 03:25:27 (PB)
1545 Ryan Preston 03:46:26
3327 Lloyd Hamilton 04:25:11
Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/moy-park-belfast-city-marathon-2025/#1_D4F9EC
West of Ireland Women's Mini Marathon (TBD)
Overall place Name  Chiptime
1 Freya Renton 00:36:12
Crusaders AC runner
7 Ciara Regan 00:41:46
Full results here: TBD
Drogheda 10k (1531)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Sean Doran 1 00:32:13
6 Aine Cotter 1 00:36:02
Crusaders AC runner
60 Eddie Nugent 00:40:45
Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/drogheda_10k_2025/5522/results
IMRA Carrickgollen 8k (170)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Daire Finn 1 00:33:36
15 Sorcha Loughnane 1 00:37:39
Crusaders AC runners
4 Brendan Murphy 00:34:15
18 Jason Kehoe 00:38:20
23 Clare Sullivan 00:39:00 (2)
25 Becky Quinn 00:39:09 (3)
34 Warren Swords 00:41:01
41 Ollie McGrath 00:41:49
62 Caoimhe Dempsey 00:45:19 (11)
90 Gavan Doherty 00:49:34
Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2655
Illanmanaugh Parkrun (52)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Eamonn Morgan 1 00:21:33
2 Amy Meaney 1 00:21:35
Crusaders AC runners
25 Máirín Shine 00:35:01 (13)
27 Lisa Shine 00:35:03 (14)
Tolka Valley Parkrun (68)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Fumiaki Fujita 1 00:16:36
12 Aleksandra Sobota 1 00:23:15
Crusaders AC runner
36 Maria Pertl 00:28:49 (11)
Listowel Parkrun (42)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Michael O’Conor 1 00:17:49
9 Stephanie Hawkins 1 00:23:05
Crusaders AC runner
1 Michael O’Conor 00:17:49
Killarney House Parkrun (147)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 James Grufferty 1 00:17:57
13 Grainne Byrne 1 00:21:44
Crusaders AC runner
111 Ciara McElligott 00:32:46 (41)
Poolbeg Parkrun (232)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Tom Rehal 1 00:17:24
33 Ella Jennings 1 00:22:21
Crusaders AC runners
3 Kenan Furlong 00:17:51
4 Stephen Hurley 00:18:08
20 Pat Quill 00:21:37
31 John Lohan 00:22:12
39 Josie Ward 00:22:49 (2)
54 Kevin Kenny 00:23:38
63 Sharon Woods 00:24:15 (4)
85 Franky Keane 00:25:28
96 Alan Martin 00:26:11
105 Djinn Von Noorden 00:26:31 (19)
118 Tanja Narancic 00:27:06 (24)
119 Aitor Arribas Velasco 00:27:07
128 Aisling O’Riordan 00:27:38 (29)
163 Mari Hansen 00:29:47 (49)
179 Maureen McGinley 00:30:45 (61)
Bere Island Parkrun (84)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Cyril McNamara 1 00:22:00
3 Laura O’Sullivan Fenton 1 00:22:44
Crusaders AC runner
31 Mairead Cashman 00:33:36 (16)
Malahide Parkrun (355)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Kenneth Nolan 1 00:17:17
3 Annette Kealy 1 00:18:35
Crusaders AC runner
149 Aoife Cowhie 00:25:42 (33)
Marlay Parkrun (610)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Mark McDonald 1 00:16:45
50 Ellie Woulfe 1 00:21:45
Crusaders AC runners
3 Derek Lawlor 00:17:40
316 Lisa Branigan 00:28:50 (90)
317 Aaron Farrell 00:28:50
St. Anne’s Parkrun (626)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Barry Meehan 1 00:16:47
22 Claire O’Leary 1 00:19:23
Crusaders AC runners
97 Kabir Sala 00:22:59
121 Michael Maughan 00:23:24
204 Bo Chicoine 00:26:06
Ormeau Parkrun (617)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 David Hudson 1 00:16:55
15 Harriet Buswell 1 00:19:36
Crusaders AC runner
12 Ross Neill 00:19:03
Cabinteely Parkrun (203)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 John Golden 1 00:19:32
3 Eleanor Early 1 00:19:52
Crusaders AC runners
105 Olwyn Dunne 00:30:06 (28)
169 Carina Davidson 00:40:13 (64)
Poppintree Parkrun (230)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Pádraig MacCriostail 1 00:18:12
12 Peigi Allen 1 00:21:15
Crusaders AC runner
59 Paul F. Kelly 00:25:03
Father Collins Parkrun (156)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Sean Kelly 1 00:17:14
10 Roisin Vance 1 00:21:03
Crusaders AC runners
23 Mikel Crisostomo 00:22:34
61 Emer Kenny 00:26:45 (13)
River Valley Parkrun (133)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Brian O’Reilly 1 00:19:12
13 Cecile Ollagnier 1 00:22:54
Crusaders AC runner
21 Chris Bannon 00:24:23
50 Darina Scully 00:27:36 (15)
Midleton Greenway Parkrun (142)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Nadine Forde 1 00:18:40
2 Michael Harty 1 00:18:40
Crusaders AC runner
55 Lorraine McMahon 00:28:09 (14)
Shanganagh Parkrun (341)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Drew Donohoe 1 00:16:51
18 Liadh Fitzmaurice 1 00:19:47
Crusaders AC runners
73 Aoife McCarthy 00:23:35 (19)
223 Jill Nason 00:29:31 (75)

The annual running of the National Road Relays in Raheny took place on Sunday afternoon. It is always great craic and this year’s edition did not disappoint. Held on a warmish day with the wind increasing throughout the afternoon, we fielded 6 teams in 4 of the races and got so close to medalling in two of them. However, all the clubs involved bring out such strong teams and it is a great credit that we can even get close.

The afternoon started with the masters women’s O/35 contest, involving three runners in a sequence of one-mile, two-mile and one-mile legs. The one-mile looped course used for all the races is pretty much flat and run on a concrete road for the most part. 13 club teams participated in this first race and our team of Clare Sullivan, Yvonne Macauley and Caroline Crowley (who is still recovering from a broken elbow sustained in the Tallaght 5k) placed 4th behind Longford, Sportsworld and Dunboyne. Clare ran 5:34 for the first leg, Yvonne, 12:19 for the two miles and then Caroline ran 5:40 as the anchor, their total time being 23:31. It was a super effort.

In the masters O/35 men’s race, we had two teams in the field of 24, also running a sequence of 1-mile, 2-mile and 1-mile legs. The team of Enda Clarke (4:51), Michael O’Conor (10:56) and Paul O’Hara (with a PB of 5:15) ran a total of 21:01, to place 14th overall. Then, our team of Karl Fitzmaurice (5:19), Jan Manschot (11:48) and men’s captain Joe McDermott (5:29) placed 21st in 22:35.

The final two events were senior races. The same format as the masters races was maintained for the senior women’s competition involving 14 club teams. The team of Saoirse McGrath (5:30), Orla Walsh (12:01) and Charlotte Myers (5:13) placed 4th behind DSD, UCD and Raheny with a time of 22:00, whilst the team of ladies’ captain Kathryn Gibbons (5:44), Annie Hughes (12:01) and Claire Mooney (5:33) took 7th place with an accumulated time of 23:17. 

Lastly, our senior men’s team were involved in a 4-man relay involving a sequence of 2-mile, 1-mile, 3-mile and 2-mile legs. In a race of extremely high standard they placed 18th in the 26 team race, Paul running 10:59 in the 2-mile first leg, followed by Luke Clarke in 5:03 for the 1 mile, with Alex Ainsworth running a steady pace for a strong 3-mile leg (15:55) and the anchor leg being taken by Brian Regan (10:52 for 2 miles).

Well done to all. It was also great fun supporting everyone and there was a good crowd of Crusaders to provide support.

Apart from the road relays, the weekend seemed to belong mostly to the exploits of those running full and half marathons, both in Ireland and abroad. Saturday saw Brian O’Kelly win the 52-strong Royal Canal Marathon along the towpath in Longford. Brian ran a time of 2:46:26. Then, on Sunday morning, many of us were glued to the BBC coverage of the London marathon which is always such a spectacle, noting that under cloudless skies the temperature was rising from a broadly acceptable 15 degrees at the start, but to around 20 degrees or higher by the finish of the last wave. The event was trying to achieve a World record for the number of finishers, trying to outdo New York’s total of 55,000 or so in November last year. It may well have achieved it, but it would have been a major challenge, given the warm weather conditions. In such circumstances, our hats must be doffed to those from the club who ran in the event. Chief among them was Kevin Fitzgibbon, running his second marathon in a week, having achieved 2:49 in Boston. In London, Kevin found the last 10k tough (and his tracker took forever to refresh after 21 miles, making it look as though he may have dropped out) but, thankfully, completed the distance in 2:56:18.

Kevin was preceded by Daragh O’Reilly who surprisingly recorded a super PB time of 2:34:40, running metronomic 5k splits throughout, and by Doireann Hughes, running her last race with the club (and actually representing her British club of Edinburgh AC in the UK championships) who also recorded a fabulous PB of 2:52:30. Next came Ciara Lehane, paced by her husband Ciaran Diviney, with them both crossing the line with an identical chiptime of 3:45:26, and they were followed by Lieze Verberght (4:14:11), Ciara Reilly (5:03:56) and Fanny Trébouet (5:07:30).

We also had a runner in Manchester on the day. Our London exile Kate O’Malley ran a super 2:56:29 for a PB. Despite a dodgy knee and temperatures in the 16-18 degrees range, Ian Weldon ran 3:26:36 in Hamburg. We had two runners in the challenging marathon in Madrid. Charles-Édouard Cattier, soon to return to these shores from Spain, ran 3:17:18, whilst Lisa Branigan, following her 10-mile race on Monday, ran 3:53:50. Conditions were about the same as in Hamburg.

Finally, back in Ireland on the west coast in blustery conditions and on a hilly course known to many, we had one runner in the Connemarathon full race. Barbara Walsh was one of 574 finishers, placing 419th in 4:54:20. Then, in the half marathon, we had 4 athletes from the club take part. In a field of 1408 finishers, Jeff Marvel placed 10th in 86:10, followed by Aaron Farrell (25th in 92:51), Mark Browne (216th in 1:50:44) and Joy Flaherty (718th in a PB time of 2:11:54).

Another race to note, was the P&G 5k that took place in the northern suburbs of London in midweek. In an event that measured slightly short, another of our London-based exiles, Rob Glascott, ran 18:28.

In the mountains midweek we had 4 of our clubmates take part in the IMRA Wednesday kick-off event held around the Sugar Loaf mountains. In a race of 8.5k with a climb of 360m, and a field of 278, Donatas Jocius placed 2nd in a time of 42:56, followed by Jason Kehoe, after a season playing field hockey, who placed 17th in 47:40, and then by Caoimhe Dempsey (102nd and 15th female finisher in 56:40) and Gavan Doherty (115th in 57:38).

We had some excellent outings in parkruns this week, with several first finishers and podium places.

Sarah Lyons placed 8th and 1st in 23:31 in the 57-strong field in Tolka Valley, followed by Maria Pertl (43rd and 18th in 31:49), whilst Mark Culleton placed 1st in Portumna in a time of 18:52. The field measured 31. Meanwhile, Lisa Shine was also a first finisher, placing 12th overall in 25:43 in the 54-strong field on the Grand Canal Way in Tullamore, whilst Michael Wycherley travelled to Bognor Regis where he joined a field of 400, placing first in a time of 18:01.

The club dominated the top results in the Poolbeg parkrun this weekend. Rory O’Kennedy placed 1st in 17:11. With Emma Rowe placing 15th and 1st in 19:52. In an event involving 235 participants we had 18 members taking part. Kenan Furlong placed 2nd in 17:56, followed by Stephen Hurley (3rd in 17:58) and Ross Neill (11th in 18:53). Behind Emma came Adrian Groarke (19th in 20:30), followed by Conor Kilkenny (22nd in 21:27), Kabir Sala (29th in 21:27), John Lohan (33rd in 21:48), Ciara Regan (41st and 5th in 22:17), Sharon Woods (80th and 13th in 24:40), Russell Murphy (88th in 25:13), Fiona Bane (89th and 16th in 25:19), Bo Chicoine (106th in 26:09), Lorraine McMahon (156th and 52nd in 29:04), Tanja Narancic (160th and 55th in 29:25), Mari Hansen with a buggy (201st and 81st in 33:12) and Don Anderton, tailwalking.

Visiting family in Ipswich in East Anglia, Thomas Vogée placed 2nd in the Kesgrave parkrun with its field of 331. Thomas’ time was 17:34. Meanwhile, we had 3 runners in Bushy Park. In a field of 225, Daniel Lowe placed 4th in 19:48, followed closely by Kev Moore (5th in 20:01) with Kevin Kenny further back (58th in 25:44). James Sherry ran in Monaghan Town where, alongside 123 other runners, he placed 2nd in 19:36, whilst Darrina Scully ran once again in River Valley Park where, in a field of 129, she placed 20th and 3rd in 24:50. Tara Murphy took advantage of a trip to the USA to run in the Veterans Park in New Jersey, where, in a field of 25 runners, she placed 9th and 4th in 27:02, whilst, in the 99-strong field in Brickfields, Eoghan Corrigan and wife Caroline Crowley placed respectively 27th and 28th overall in 25:01 and 25:10. Caroline also was 7th female finisher. In Naas, with its field of 164, Karl Walsh took 4th spot in 18:55, followed by Dale Whelehan who ran 23:43 for 33rd place.

Máirín Shine joined a field of 92 in Clonmel, placing 33rd and 11th in 28:01, whilst Carina Davidson, working her way back from a foot injury, managed to walk/run to 162nd and 62nd places in 46:23 in the 179-strong field in Cabinteely. Colm Foley placed 63rd in 25:28, running alongside 235 other participants in Griffeen Park, whilst Franky Keane joined 171 others in Mullingar, where he placed 35th in 25:40.

Shanganagh enjoyed a field of 306, among them Oisin Browne who placed 22nd in 20:09, followed by Aoife McCarthy (67th and 7th in 23:06), Orlaith de Burca (170th and 41st in 28:14) and Jill Nason (229th and 76th in 31:36). We had 2 participants in Donabate. Chris Bannon ran 23:30 for 36th spot, followed by Lorraine Fitzsimons, tailwalking. 225 runners took part. Paul F. Kelly was our lone runner in the 636-strong field in St. Anne’s where he placed 102nd in 23:09, whilst Mairead Cashman took on Bundoran Promenade where, in a field of 81, she placed 55th and 24th in 32:44.

Finally, looking at other results abroad from our exiles, Aidan Hudner ran once again in Pollok in Glasgow where, in a field of 338 he placed 39th in 23:07, whilst Toby Benham, now perhaps based in the UK, ran alongside 728 other participants in Worthing where he placed 5th in 17:42. Finally, Jeanie Watson ran 23:24 for 149th and 18th places in the field of 865 in Finsbury Park in London.
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Connemarathon Half marathon (1408)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Marc Augustin 1 01:16:47
26 Sarah Flanagan 1 01:33:06
Crusaders AC runners
10 Jeff Marvel 01:26:10
25 Aaron Farrell 01:32:51
216 Mark Browne 01:50:44
718 Joy Flaherty 02:11:54 (PB)
Full results here: https://www.connemarathon.com/results/
Connemarathon Full (574)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Feidhlim McGowan 1 02:30:53
39 Jennie O’Leary 1 03:29:08
Crusaders AC runner
419 Barbara Walsh 04:54:20
Full results here: https://www.connemarathon.com/results/
Longford Royal Canal Marathon (52)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Brian O’Kelly 1 02:46:26
8 Helen Hartnett 1 03:15:29
Crusaders AC runner
1 Brian O’Kelly 02:46:26
Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/royal-canal-run-longford-2025/
IMRA Belmont and Little Sugarloaf 8.5k (278)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Rory Lush 1 00:42:08
14 Emer Perkins 1 00:47:13
Crusaders AC runners
2 Donatas Jocius 00:42:56
17 Jason Kehoe 00:47:40
102 Caoimhe Dempsey 00:56:40 (15)
115 Gavan Doherty 00:57:38
Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2658
The Grand Canal Way, Tullamore Parkrun (54)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Dylan McDonnell 1 00:20:18
12 Lisa Shine 1 00:25:43
Crusaders AC runner
12 Lisa Shine 00:25:43 (1)
Tolka Valley Parkrun (57)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Cian Ó Raghallaigh 1 00:19:32
8 Sarah Lyons 1 00:23:31
Crusaders AC runners
8 Sarah Lyons 00:23:31 (1)
43 Maria Pertl 00:31:49 (18)
Monaghan Town Parkrun (124)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Nigel Prior 1 00:19:25
13 Ciara Quigley 1 00:22:39
Crusaders AC runner
2 James Sherry 00:19:36
Clonmel Parkrun (92)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Paul Halloran 1 00:19:56
8 Rhian McCarthy 1 00:23:13
Crusaders AC runner
33 Máirín Shine 00:28:01 (11)
Poolbeg Parkrun (235)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Rory O’Kennedy 1 00:17:11
15 Emma Rowe 1 00:19:52
Crusaders AC runners
1 Rory O’Kennedy 00:17:11
2 Kenan Furlong 00:17:56
3 Stephen Hurley 00:17:58
11 Ross Neill 00:18:53
15 Emma Rowe 00:19:52 (1)
19 Adrian Groarke 00:20:13
22 Conor Kilkenny 00:20:30
29 Kabir Sala 00:21:27
33 John Lohan 00:21:48
41 Ciara Regan 00:22:17 (5)
80 Sharon Woods 00:24:40 (13)
88 Russell Murphy 00:25:13
89 Fiona Bane 00:25:19 (16)
106 Bo Chicoine 00:26:09
156 Lorraine McMahon 00:29:04 (52)
160 Tanja Narancic 00:29:25 (55)
201 Mari Hansen 00:33:12 (81)
235 Don Anderton 01:13:34
Bundoran Promenade Parkrun (81)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Cormac Dillon 1 00:18:53
13 Philomena Gallagher 1 00:24:54
Crusaders AC runner
55 Mairead Cashman 00:32:44 (24)
Brickfields Parkrun (99)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Maxim Bondarenko 1 00:18:23
11 Eimear Nic An Bhaird 1 00:22:24
Crusaders AC runners
27 Eoghan Corrigan 00:25:01
28 Caroline Crowley 00:25:10 (7)
Bushy Parkrun (208)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Cian Buckley 1 00:18:48
16 Leah Carroll 1 00:21:59
Crusaders AC runners
4 Daniel Lowe 00:19:48
5 Kev Moore 00:20:01
58 Kevin Kenny 00:25:44
St. Anne’s Parkrun (636)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Sean Og MacSeoin 1 00:16:53
3 Kate O’Neill 1 00:18:23
Crusaders AC runner
102 Paul F. Kelly 00:23:09
Portumna Parkrun (31)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Mark Culleton 1 00:18:52
6 Mary Conwell 1 00:24:08
Crusaders AC runner
1 Mark Culleton 00:18:52
Cabinteely Parkrun (179)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Sean Terek 1 00:20:12
18 Isabelle Higgins 1 00:23:17
Crusaders AC runner
162 Carina Davidson 00:46:23 (62)
Griffeen Parkrun (236)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Oliver Warren 1 00:18:24
3 Niamh Murphy 1 00:19:15
Crusaders AC runner
63 Colm Foley 00:25:28
Mullingar Parkrun (172)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
2 Ciaran Walsh 1 00:18:30
12 Hazel Jones 1 00:21:53
Crusaders AC runner
35 Franky Keane 00:25:40
River Valley Parkrun (129)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Matteo Healy 1 00:21:29
4 Cecile Ollagnier 1 00:22:21
Crusaders AC runner
20 Darina Scully 00:24:50 (3)
Donabate Parkrun (225)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Alessandro Porazzini 1 00:18:28
19 Geraldine McHale 1 00:21:23
Crusaders AC runners
36 Chris Bannon 00:23:30
225 Lorraine Fitzsimons 00:52:30
Shanganagh Parkrun (306)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Reuben Whelan 1 00:17:37
24 Emily Kane 1 00:20:26
Crusaders AC runners
22 Oisin Browne 00:20:09
67 Aoife McCarthy 00:23:06 (7)
170 Orlaith de Burca 00:28:14 (41)
229 Jill Nason 00:31:36 (76)
Naas Parkrun (164)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Rhys Johnson 1 00:16:29
7 Caroline Ayton 1 00:19:34
Crusaders AC runners
4 Karl Walsh 00:18:55
33 Dale Whelehan 00:23:43

​The report starts on Thursday evening with the latest race in the Peugeot Race Series, the Streets of Kilkenny 5k. On a fast 2-lap course, there were nearly 900 in the race, with 40 runners crossing the line under 16 minutes and nearly one third finishing under 20 minutes. We had 3 runners in the event and they were led home by Alex Ainsworth with a controlled run to place 71st in a time of 16:41. Brian Regan was next (79th in 16:52) with Henry Griffin close behind (86th in 16:58).

Then, on Saturday morning we had another 3 runners in the challenging Hardman Valentia Half Marathon. The race involved a climb of 130m over the first 5k having started on the coast. After traversing almost the entire length of the island, the race descended from 10k through 15k to a flat finish just beyond the start line to complete the loop. On a trip back to Ireland, one of our exiles in Australia, Maurice Kelter, shaking off jet lag with participation in the race, went on to win it with a 2:30 minutes cushion in a time of 74:53. Tom Gleeson was next in the field of 315, placing 38th in 99:09, followed by Daniel Gleeson (99th in 1:47:35).

Seven more races with Crusaders participation on Monday, bookended by the Battle of Clontarf 10-miler and, finally, the 129th running of the Boston Marathon in Massachusetts on Patriots Day. We had at least 10 runners in each of them too.

The Battle of Clontarf, incorporating the Leinster Championships, took place as usual entirely within the confines of St. Anne’s Park in Raheny. By necessity it is a twisting course with a couple of out-and backs as well as a repeat of a hill at around 3.5 and 7.5 miles. It is not really a PB course, as a consequence. Nevertheless, apart from the hill, the course is otherwise quite flat. It was also conducted in conditions that seemed fine for distance road racing without much wind to speak of and otherwise dry. The field measured 362 finishers.

In a race won convincingly by two veterans, Sean Hehir and Fiona Roche, late entrant Stephen Hurley led our contingent home in 18th place in a time of 59:13 (also becoming the 2nd scorer in the County Dublin gold-winning O/35 men’s team). Stephen was followed by Yvonne Macauley who held on well for 49th place overall and 5th female to cross the finish line in a time of 65:23. Yvonne was also 2nd scorer on the gold-winning Co. Dublin senior women’s team as well as taking gold in the F35 age category. Aoife Quigley was next, placing 90th and 10th, in 69:15, earning silver in the F40 age category as the podium winners were all F40s. Aoife was also a scorer on the Co. Dublin gold-winning senior women’s team. She was followed across the line by Nina Holmes (103rd and 15th in 70:28), who also took bronze in the F40 category. Nina was also second scorer on the gold-winning Co. Dublin O/35 women’s team.  Most importantly, even though they are masters athletes, Yvonne, Aoife and Nina won for Crusaders the senior women’s silver medal (behind Raheny and ahead of Tullamore in a 10-team contest).

Adding to our medal haul, Olwyn Dunne crossed the line in 76:35 for 164th and 35th places, winning the bronze medal in the F55 age category and also scoring on the Co. Dublin gold-winning O/50 women’s team.

Robbie Moore followed Olwyn home in 168th place in a time of 76:40 and he was followed by Dee Ni Chearbhaill (178th and 40th in 77:43, Emily Glen (202nd  overall, 52nd female finisher, 4th F35 and individual bronze medallist in the F35 age category in 79:54), Brendan Glynn (259th in 85:50), Kevin Kenny (274th in 87:57) and Lisa Branigan in a loosener before she takes part in the Madrid marathon next weekend (304th and 104th in 91:35). Peter Rosenshine also ran on Sunday morning, but his chiptime and place were not recorded.

There was another 10-mile race on Monday morning, over in Kinsale where we had just one competitor. Paula Nolan placed 432nd and 117th in the 803-strong field in a time of 88:21.

Over in Sligo, Ross Neill appears to have overcome Achilles difficulties with a storming run in the Carney Half marathon, where, in a field of 225, he placed 5th in 79:37.

Then, down in Rosslare, we had several runners, holidaying in the region, take part in the two races on offer on Easter Monday. Gary Park finished in 8th spot alongside a field of 233 with a time of 19:56 in the 5k race, followed by Anna Shine (131st and 64th in 31:48), whilst we had at least 5 runners in the 10k with its field of 275. On a last-minute whim, Eugene McDonough decided to run the race, despite enjoying a few glasses the night before, and still managed to place 6th in a time of 38:45. Fiona Shine ran well for 78th and 8th in 48:48, followed by Emer Kenny (107th and 16th in 50:58. John Corish was next (115th in 51:39) and he was followed by Lisa Shine (180th and 43rd in 56:26). Máirín Shine also ran. However her result of just over the hour was not recorded.

Kevin Lambe ran in the Moynalty 4-miler, where, in a field of 390, he placed 117th in 31:30.

Conditions in Boston Mass. were, in general, quite good. Although there was a headwind developing over the course of the race it would have been more likely a help than a hindrance in keeping athletes relatively cool in warm temperatures of around 13-14 degrees Celsius. Wind direction is quite important on a point-to-point course such as Boston as runners head from Hopkinton in the west to downtown Boston in the east.

The net downhill course is nevertheless extremely challenging, with a largely downhill first half, but with several hills, even in the last 5k, in the second half (runners noticeably slowing generally in the 5k after 30k). Kevin Fitzgibbon did well to pace the race evenly, finishing in a great time of 2:49:21, knowing also that he would be heading to London next weekend for the marathon there. Ger Forde, whose training had been a little truncated, also maintained a good degree of self-discipline, finishing in 2:55:54 despite a stitch towards the end. Ger was followed by Derek Boland who recovered well towards the end to finish in 2:57:10. Next came Maeve Lochrie in  3:24:51 followed by Mags Foley running 3:26:35 and Carolyn O’Reilly in 3:42:42. They were followed by Liam O'Brien in 3:44:50, earning his 6-majors medal, and Kate Murray in 4:04:34. Finally, Paula Bradshaw, whose preparation for the marathon can hardly have been harder with an injury that has refused to go away, more than just survived and completed the challenge in a highly creditable 4:21:12, despite having her calf popping with 5k to go.

Despite the poor weather on the East coast over the Easter weekend, Crusaders were out in droves in the parkruns, although Dublin-based events were about half their normal size, benefiting those further afield, as runners took their breaks in the country.

We had several first finishers and podium places around the country on Saturday morning. In Kilcock on the Royal Canal, Ciarain Kelly led the field of 177 home in a time of 17:05, whilst in the 52-strong field in the Tubbercurry Trail parkrun, Ciara Regan also headed the field outright in 22:07. Dee Lawlor was a first finisher again in Cabinteely, where, in a field of 104, he ran 19:26, whilst Luke Clarke headed the depleted field of 133 home in Poolbeg, where he ran 19:24.

Kev Moore placed 3rd in Poolbeg in 20:19 and the 16 other Crusaders who ran were Mary Donnelly (14th and 2nd in 21:45), Josie Ward (18th and 3rd with an exceptional 22:26), John Lohan (20th in 22:52), Kabir Sala (23rd in 23:12), Mikel Crisostomo (27th in 23:35), Sharon Woods (29th and 5th in 23:47), Aoife McCarthy (37th and 7th in 24:43), Bo Chicoine (40th in 25:06), Tanja Narancic (49th and 14th in 25:54), Russell Murphy (50th in 25:57), Olwyn Dunne (52nd and 15th in 26:04), Aisling O’Riordan (63rd and 20th 27:27), Franky Keane (90th in 29:35), Michelle English (93rd and 37th in 29:50), Kevin Kenny (95th in 30:03) and Maureen McGinley (97th and 39th in 30:55).

Thomas Vogée headed down to Inch Beach for the weekend, running in the parkrun there alongside 54 other runners, placing 2nd in 19:30, whilst, in Porch Field in Trim, Eugene O’Neill joined a field of the same size, where he placed 2nd in 19:06. Peter O’Toole placed 2nd in 19:13 in a field of 103 in Fairview, whilst James Sherry also placed 2nd in 19:40 in the 110-strong field in Monaghan Town. Ivan Kinehan was our lone runner in St. Anne’s, where, in a field of 291, he also placed 2nd in 17:25, whilst Daniel Lowe improved his time in Bushy Park, placing 3rd in 20:33 in a field of 109.

Up north, Ross Neill took on Orangefield in Belfast where he placed 8th in 20:27 in a field of 96, whilst Michael O’Conor ran in Wallace Park, Lisburn, where, in a field of 202, he placed 4th in 18:04.

Elsewhere, John O’Donnell took 4th spot in the 97-strong field in Claremorris, finishing in a time of 21:00, whilst Karl Walsh also placed 4th in 18:40 in Naas. Karl was followed home in the field of 156 by Martina White who placed 132nd and 43rd in 33:50, whilst Darina Scully joined 108 other participants in Gorey, running 26:35 for 47th and 13th places. Maria Pertl ran alongside 34 other runners in Tolka Valley Park, where she placed 22nd and 7th in 30:41, whilst Killian Barry was our sole runner in Marlay Park, where, in a field of 338, he placed 12th in 19:09.

In the Midleton Greenway parkrun with 143 runners, Ronan Walsh placed 32nd in 23:13 with Barry O’Neill following behind in 53rd place in a time of 24:56. Holidaying down in Co. Wexford, Lisa and Máirín Shine took part in the Wexford Racecourse parkrun once again, with Lisa placing 69th and 27th in 31:43 alongside Máirín who placed 70th and 28th in 31:44 in the field of 99. Meanwhile, Paul F. Kelly placed 44th in 26:35 in the 194-strong field in Poppintree.

Taking advantage of their trip to Boston, Paula and James Bradshaw ran in the parkrun at Jamaica Pond, where, in a field of 645, James placed 209th in 25:08 and Paula ran 30:53 for 431st and 159th spots. John Reidy ran in Perth in Scotland where, in a field of 354, he placed 68th in 22:57, whilst in Centennial Park in Sydney, one of our exiles there, Deirdre Kennedy, ran 28:28 for 265th place overall in a field of 456.
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Battle of Clontarf 10-miler (Leinster Championships) (362)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Sean Hehir 1 00:54:53
22 Fiona Roche 1 01:00:02
Crusaders AC runners
49 Yvonne Macauley 01:05:23 (5)
90 Aoife Quigley 01:09:15 (10)
103 Nina Holmes 01:10:28 (15)
164 Olwyn Dunne 01:16:35 (35)
168 Robbie Moore 01:16:40
178 Deirdre Ni Chearbhaill 01:17:43 (40)
202 Emily Glen 01:19:54 (52)
259 Brendan Glynn 01:25:50
274 Kevin Kenny 01:27:57
304 Lisa Branigan 01:31:35 (104)
Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/battle_of_clontarf_10_mile_leinster_championships/5647/club-team-results?runnerClass=10%20mile&type=Team6&category=F&categoryType=Category
Kinsale 10-miler (803)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Ryan Creech 1 00:49:16
22 Catherine Murphy 1 01:03:30
Crusaders AC runner
432 Paula Nolan 01:28:21 (117)
Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/kinsale-10mile-road-race-2025/
Rosslare 5k (233)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Jack Butler 1 00:16:48
10 Annaleigh Kehoe 1 00:20:16
Crusaders AC runners
8 Gary Park 00:19:56
131 Anna Shine 00:31:48 (64)
Full results here: https://redtagtiming.com/results/Rosslare2025_5km.pdf
Rosslare 10k (275)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Brendan Dunne 1 00:34:55
12 Nicola Moorehouse 1 00:40:00
Crusaders AC runners
6 Eugene McDonough 00:38:45
78 Fiona Shine 00:48:48 (8)
107 Emer Kenny 00:50:58 (16)
115 John Corish 00:51:39
180 Lisa Shine 00:56:26 (43)
XXX Máirín Shine 01:00:07 (XX)
Full results here: https://redtagtiming.com/results/Rosslare2025_10km.pdf
Carney/Sligo Half Marathon (225)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Brian Kinsella 1 01:15:51
12 Aela Stewart 1 01:25:51
Crusaders AC runner
5 Ross Neill 01:19:37
Full results here: https://coretiming.ie/events/carney-10km-and-half-marathon25/#1_876FAE
Hardman Valentia Half Marathon (315)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Maurice Kelter 1 01:14:53
9 Aisling Mohan 1 01:28:08
Crusaders AC runners
1 Maurice Kelter 01:14:53
38 Tom Gleeson 01:39:09
99 Daniel Gleeson 01:47:35
Full results here: https://my.raceresult.com/335921/
Moynalty AC 4-miler (390)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Peter Somba 1 00:20:42
13 Rachel Birt 1 00:23:50
Crusaders AC runner
117 Kevin Lambe 00:31:30
Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/moynalty_ac_m4m_4_mile_road_race/5545/results
Tubbercurry Trail Parkrun (52)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Ciara Regan 1 00:22:07
3 Francis Mannion 1 00:22:52
Crusaders AC runner
1 Ciara Regan 00:22:07 (1)
Tolka Valley Parkrun (35)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Paddy Murphy 1 00:18:33
10 Aleksandra Sobota 1 00:23:41
Crusaders AC runner
22 Maria Pertl 00:30:41 (7)
Monaghan Town Parkrun (110)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Damien McCaffrey 1 00:19:14
13 Judith Nixon 1 00:22:30
Crusaders AC runner
2 James Sherry 00:19:40
Fairview Parkrun (103)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Adam Tango Holland 1 00:17:10
15 Sophie Barc 1 00:23:36
Crusaders AC runner
2 Peter O’Toole 00:19:13
Poolbeg Parkrun (133)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Luke Clarke 1 00:19:24
6 Ava Rose Clarke 1 00:20:53
Crusaders AC runners
1 Luke Clarke 00:19:24
3 Kev Moore 00:20:19
14 Mary Donnelly 00:21:45 (2)
18 Josie Ward 00:22:26 (3)
20 John Lohan 00:22:52
23 Kabir Sala 00:23:12
27 Mikel Crisostomo 00:23:35
29 Sharon Woods 00:23:47 (5)
37 Aoife McCarthy 00:24:43 (7)
40 Bo Chicoine 00:25:06
49 Tanja Narancic 00:25:54 (14)
50 Russell Murphy 00:25:57
52 Olwyn Dunne 00:26:04 (15)
63 Aisling O’Riordan 00:27:27 (20)
90 Franky Keane 00:29:35
93 Michelle English 00:29:50 (37)
95 Kevin Kenny 00:30:03
97 Maureen McGinley 00:30:55 (39)
Porch Field Parkrun (55)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Ernest Asensio Blasco 1 00:17:56
11 Amy-May O’Neill 1 00:21:18
Crusaders AC runner
2 Eugene O’Neill 00:19:06
Royal Canal, Kilcock Parkrun (177)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Ciarain Kelly 1 00:17:05
6 Sinead O’Reilly 1 00:18:56
Crusaders AC runner
1 Ciarain Kelly 00:17:05
Bushy Parkrun (109)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Cian Buckley 1 00:18:45
14 Christine Kinsella 1 00:22:53
Crusaders AC runner
3 Daniel Lowe 00:20:33
St. Anne’s Parkrun (291)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Anthony Sharkey 1 00:17:13
33 Ali Kinehan 1 00:21:55
Crusaders AC runner
2 Ivan Kinehan 00:17:25
Wexford Racecourse Parkrun (99)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Anthony Dowd 1 00:18:46
5 Annaleigh Hore 1 00:20:53
Crusaders AC runners
69 Lisa Shine 00:31:43 (27)
70 Máirín Shine 00:31:44 (28)
Cabinteely Parkrun (104)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Derek Lawlor 1 00:19:26
6 Lara Woods 1 00:22:43
Crusaders AC runner
1 Derek Lawlor 00:19:26
Orangefield Parkrun (96)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Andrew McIntyre 1 00:18:29
11 Anne Moore 1 00:21:40
Crusaders AC runner
8 Ross Neill 00:20:27
Midleton Greenway Parkrun (143)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Barry Walsh 1 00:17:49
9 Mary Duckett 1 00:19:48
Crusaders AC runners
32 Ronan Walsh 00:23:13
53 Barry O’Neill 00:24:56
Inch Beach Parkrun (55)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Juraj Skupnjak 1 00:19:12
9 Shannon McAuley 1 00:24:17
Crusaders AC runner
2 Thomas Vogée 00:19:30
Poppintree Parkrun (194)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Mark O’Connor 1 00:19:08
29 Christine O’Connor 1 00:23:52
Crusaders AC runner
44 Paul F. Kelly 00:26:35
Gorey Parkrun (109)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Paul O’Beirne 1 00:17:51
5 Donna Mahon 1 00:21:28
Crusaders AC runner
47 Darina Scully 00:26:35 (13)
Claremorris Parkrun (97)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Neil Campbell 1 00:19:43
3 Olivia Duffy 1 00:20:47
Crusaders AC runner
4 John O’Donnell 00:21:00
Wallace, Lisburn Parkrun (202)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Thomas Coy 1 00:17:00
10 Faye Morgan 1 00:20:09
Crusaders AC runner
4 Michael O’Conor 00:18:04
Marlay Parkrun (338)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Andrew Gillart 1 00:17:06
13 Lauren O’Sullivan 1 00:19:13
Crusaders AC runner
12 Killian Barry 00:19:09
Naas Parkrun (156)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Darren O’Sullivan 1 00:18:24
5 Iris McCartan 1 00:19:10
Crusaders AC runners
4 Karl Walsh 00:18:40
132 Martina White 00:33:50 (43)

Throughout the week several of us were following the progress of Áine Kenny in the 39th edition of the supremely challenging Marathon des Sables, a week-long event conducted over a distance of 250km in 6 daily stages in the Moroccan Desert. Conditions are tough for the runners as not only do they have to run over sand dunes under the desert sun, but they are also expected to carry all their own food for at least 4 days, bedding and cooking utensils whilst they do it. More below.

We start with track racing over the weekend, the first outdoor meeting of the season, with Emily Lyne, competing in the Irish Universities Championships for UCD, taking silver in the 400mH. Emily’s success was made possible by a PB in the semi-finals of 64.9, followed by 62.7 in the final. Many congrats to her. Then, Luke Timlin placed 1st in his 100m heat in a PB of 10.95, and 6th in the final, also achieving 1st place with the UCD 4x100 relay team. Meanwhile, Sean Owens placed 2nd in his 200m heat but did not start the semi-final. Katie-Rose Barry placed 8th in her 100m  in her heat and Meabh Murphy placed 9th in her 100m heat, 7th in her 200m heat.

Then, on the roads we had participants in various races from 10k up to marathon distance. Members will also be interested to hear that the weekend was also marked by the performance on Sunday morning of ex-Crusader Niamh Allen, recording a time of 32:25 for 18th place, representing Ireland in the European Running Championships in Leuven in Belgium. Sean Brady was also there to take part in the event which was also open to recreational runners, but the results are yet to be published.

In the Great Ireland Run, the annual 10k race, that took place on Sunday morning in the Phoenix Park with a field of 2412, Michael Wycherley placed 7th overall in a time of 34:59, also placing 1st in the M50 age category. Michael was followed by two runners recording PBs. The first was Lorenzo Battistin (19th in 37:27), followed by Tom Gleeson (79th in 39:43). Further back came David McEvoy (184th in 43:22) and David was followed by Aoife McCarthy (394th overall and 52nd female finisher in 47:19) ahead of Eilis Keogh (438th and 59th in 48:15). Placing 686th in 51:45 and 1318th in 58:02, Grégoire Marnotte and Peter McCarthy completed the contingent.

Down in Wexford, in the half marathon there, Kenan Furlong was one of two representatives for the club, where, in a field of 1104 finishers, he placed 12th in an excellent 82:42. Kevin Kenny also ran, finishing in a time of 1:57:30. Then, in Limerick, Luke Haran joined 278 other runners in the Michal Rejmer Memorial Dooneen AC 10 miler, where he ran 76:27 for 81st place.

Another good half marathon was recorded by Raphael Crueyze, one of our exiles now in France, who competed in the Semi-marathon du Futuroscope in Poitiers, recording a finishing time of 86:05.  Staying with results on the continent, Ryan Hoey ran in the Paris Marathon where he recorded a PB time of 4:19:51, whilst Charles Cartledge took on the Zurich marathon once again, recording a time of 4:18:05. Also, in Zurich, our exile there, Lukasz Batruch, ran in the Zurich 20k where he not only recorded a great time of 37:47, but also won his M45 age category. Lloyd Hamilton paced a friend in the Haarlem half marathon to a PB with a run of 2:18, whilst down in Sydney, Australia, Deirdre Kennedy, one of our exiles there, ran in the Nike Half marathon (run in the dark), finishing in a time of 2:02.

Back to Morocco, and we can report that not only did Áine survive her ordeal, but she did so with aplomb. Consistently finishing each stage around the 400th place mark, including on a stage of 82km, Áine eventually finished the event in 395th place overall, among the 847 or so to finish (there were approx. 50 runners who had to drop out along the way). She was also 54th female finisher in the field, completing the distance in just over 44 hours of running. It was a super achievement in an event where blisters from sand constantly getting inside one’s shoes, the risk of heatstroke and dehydration are part of the challenge.

Some great results appeared in this weekend’s parkruns. One or two of our athletes were using the runs as shakeouts before heading off to Boston for the marathon on Easter Monday (Patriot’s Day in Massachusetts) and they would have derived much confidence that they still have speed in their legs.

One of those, Kevin Fitzgibbon, ran in Griffeen Park where he led the entire field of 195 home in a time of 17:18. Further back in the same event, Colm Foley placed 42nd in 24:15. Then Kev Moore, Mary Donnelly and Mairead Cashman ran in Mungret down in Limerick, where Kev was first finisher in 19:41, with Mary 4th and 2nd in 21:25 and Mairead, 60th and 20th in 31:06. The field there measured 91 runners.

Celebrating Ciara Regan’s hen weekend, which had started with gusto the night before, Maeve Lochrie nonetheless was able to shake off any hangover, placing 5th and 1st female finisher in a time of 20:49 in the 176-strong field in Kilkenny. Maeve was followed by Ciara herself who placed 7th and 2nd in   21:12, with Mags Foley 8th and 3rd, making it a clean sweep of the women’s podium. Mags’ time was 21:16. Further back came Kathryn Gibbons (23rd and 8th in 23:31).

In St. Anne’s Raheny, three of our members joined a field of 558 runners on the day. Mikel Crisostomo placed 2nd in 18:18, followed by Eugene O’Neill (3rd in 18:35) and Chris Bannon (97th in 23:48).

Elsewhere, we had some super turnouts, especially, as usual, in Poolbeg. In a field of 261, Adrian Groarke placed 9th in 20:03, followed by Liam O’Brien, another runner preparing for Boston and who was extremely happy with his form (15th in 21:04), Aoife McCarthy (36th and 4th in 23:15), Kevin Kenny (57th in 24:08), Ambrose Carr (63rd in 24:28), Gerard Moore (64th in 24:29), Kenan Furlong (65th in 24:30), Fiona Bane (68th and 12th in 24:38), Bo Chicoine (94th in 26:12), Olwyn Dunne (116th and 34th in 27:19), Carmel Higgins (119th in 27:22), Louise O’Riordan (122ndand 38th in 27:32), Aisling O’Riordan (143rd and 51st in 28:31), Cliodhna O’Reilly (144th and 52nd in 28:33), Lorraine McMahon (177th and 74th in 30:11), Cynthia Perucca (182nd and 77th in 30:35), Mari Hansen (183rd and 78th in 30:37) and Maureen McGinley (188th and 83rd in 31:07).

Sarah Lyons took on Tolka Valley, joining 52 other runners in the process, where she placed 14th and 4th in 24:38, whilst, in Ormeau Park, Ross Neill took 6th spot in a field of 661 and in a time of 18:42. Peter O’Toole and Garret Connolly ran in the 191-strong field in Fairview, where Peter placed 5th in 19:34, followed by Garret (129th in 31:49). Meanwhile, it was super to see Daniel Lowe back in action in Bushy Park, where he ran 22:13 for 18th place alongside 216 other runners.

We had 6 of our clubmates in Shanganagh with its field of 263. David Carter placed 20th in 19:37, followed by Fiona Shine (68th and 16th in 23:52), Darina Scully (85th and 21st in 24:34), Jill Nason (190th and 70th in 30:44), Máirín Shine (215th and 89th in 33:32), just ahead of Lisa Shine (216th and 90th in 33:34). Kevin Flynn joined 118 other participants in Porterstown where he placed 97th in 39:09, whilst in Tymon Park, Sharon Woods took 46th and 12th spots in 26:09 in a field measuring 129.

Following their epic run in the Two Oceans Ultra marathon in Cape Town a week earlier, John Lohan and Tara Murphy capped off their trip to South Africa with a run in the 85-strong Rickety Bridge Parkrun in Franschhoek near Cape Town. John placed 9th in 22:37, with Tara following in 22nd and 6th places in 27:23.

Finally, in London, our exiles Jeanie Watson, Rob Glascott and Eva Kennedy took part, respectively, in parkruns on Highbury Fields and Clapham Common. In the former, Jeanie joined 591 other runners, placing 119th and 16th in 22:40, whilst, in the latter, in a field of 908, Rob ran 20:46 for 48th spot and Eva came home in 477th and 141st in 28:12.
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Great Ireland Run 10k (2412)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Colin Leonard 1 00:33:25
36 Mollie O’Donnell 1 00:38:31
Crusaders AC runners
7 Michael Wycherley 00:34:59
19 Lorenzo Battistin 00:37:27 (PB)
79 Tom Gleeson 00:39:43 (PB)
184 David McEvoy 00:43:22
394 Aoife McCarthy 00:47:19 (52)
438 Eilis Keogh 00:48:15 (59)
686 Grégoire Marnotte 00:51:45
1317 Peter McCarthy 00:58:02
Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/great_ireland_run_2025/5354/results
Wexford Half Marathon (1104)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Guillaume Mekrouda 1 01:09:42
15 Nicola McGrath 1 01:23:08
Crusaders AC runners
12 Kenan Furlong 01:22:42
​XXX Kevin Kenny 01:57:30
Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/pettitts_supervalu_wexford_half_marathon__10km_2025/5554/results
Michal Rejmer Memorial Dooneen AC 10-miler (279)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Karl Fitzmaurice 1 00:51:58
10 Dee Grady 1 01:02:12
Crusaders AC runner
81 Luke Haran 01:16:27
Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/michal_rejmer_dooneen_10_mile_2025/5515/results
Kilkenny Parkrun (176)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Graham Bourne 1 00:19:07
5 Maeve Lochrie 1 00:20:49
Crusaders AC runners
5 Maeve Lochrie 00:20:49 (1)
7 Ciara Regan 00:21:12 (2)
8 Margaret Foley 00:21:16 (3)
23 Kathryn Gibbons 00:23:31 (8)
Tolka Valley Parkrun (53)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Jacob McElwee 1 00:18:42
10 Elizabeth Daly 1 00:23:40
Crusaders AC runner
14 Sarah Lyons 00:24:38 (4)
Mungret Parkrun (91)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Kev Moore 1 00:19:41
3 Muireann O’Donnell 1 00:21:12
Crusaders AC runners
1 Kev Moore 00:19:41
4 Mary Donnelly 00:21:25 (2)
60 Mairead Cashman 00:31:06 (20)
Fairview Parkrun (191)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Francesco Hua Huang 1 00:18:50
10 Ava Rose Clarke 1 00:20:57
Crusaders AC runners
5 Peter O’Toole 00:19:34
129 Garret Connolly 00:31:49
Poolbeg Parkrun (261)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Sebastian Hansen 1 00:17:47
20 Emma Patterson 1 00:21:33
Crusaders AC runners
9 Adrian Groarke 00:20:03
15 Liam O’Brien 00:21:04
36 Aoife McCarthy 00:23:15 (4)
57 Kevin Kenny 00:24:08
63 Ambrose Carr 00:24:28
64 Gerard Moore 00:24:29
65 Kenan Furlong 00:24:30
68 Fiona Bane 00:24:38 (12)
94 Bo Chicoine 00:26:12
116 Olwyn Dunne 00:27:19 (34)
119 Carmel Higgins 00:27:22 (XX)
122 Louise O’Riordan 00:27:32 (38)
143 Aisling O’Riordan 00:28:31 (51)
144 Cliodhna O’Reilly 00:28:33 (52)
177 Lorraine McMahon 00:30:11 (74)
182 Cynthia Perucca 00:30:35 (77)
183 Mari Hansen 00:30:37 (78)
188 Maureen McGinley 00:31:07 (83)
Tymon Parkrun (129)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 David Reidy 1 00:18:24
7 Sinead Tighe 1 00:20:43
Crusaders AC runner
46 Sharon Woods 00:26:09 (12)
Porterstown Parkrun (119)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Nickolas Colyn 1 00:14:59
11 Joan O’Callaghan 1 00:21:54
Crusaders AC runner
97 Kevin Flynn 00:39:09
Bushy Parkrun (217)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Patrick McElroy 1 00:19:28
3 Rachel Calvey 1 00:20:15
Crusaders AC runner
18 Daniel Lowe 00:22:13
St. Anne’s Parkrun (558)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Tadhg Cowley 1 00:16:54
9 Laura White 1 00:19:29
Crusaders AC runners
2 Mikel Crisostomo 00:18:18
3 Eugene O’Neill 00:18:35
97 Chris Bannon 00:23:48
Shanganagh Parkrun (263)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Alex Twomey 1 00:15;52
9 Megan Brunt 1 00:17:31
Crusaders AC runners
20 David Carter 00:19:37
68 Fiona Shine 00:23:52 (16)
85 Darina Scully 00:24:34 (21)
190 Jill Nason 00:30:44 (70)
215 Máirín Shine 00:33:32 (89)
216 Lisa Shine 00:33:34 (90
Griffeen Parkrun (195)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Kevin Fitzgibbon 1 00:17:18
14 Breda Smyth 1 00:21:13
Crusaders AC runners
1 Kevin Fitzgibbon 00:17:18
42 Colm Foley 00:24:15
Ormeau Parkrun (661)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
2 Nathan McAleese 1 00:16:41
17 Shileen O’Kane 1 00:19:52
Crusaders AC runner
6 Ross Neill 00:18:42

​Racing abounded this weekend, with virtually every distance possible covered.

The report starts on Saturday morning with the latest BHAA event, the annual 4-mile road race in St. Anne’s Raheny, sponsored by DCC, involving the usual suspects, and more, plus runners from the Lord Mayor’s running initiative. There were 215 competitors, including at least 9 from the club.

Our contingent on the flat and slightly twisty park course were led home by Joe Walsh in 9th place with a time of 23:13. Kieran Martin, running in possibly his first BHAA event, was next, in 16th spot with a time of 24:16. He was followed by Clare Sullivan (17th overall and 4th female finisher in 24:24), Irene Gorman (23rd and 5th in 25:28), Sean Murphy (27th in 26:07), David O’Donnell (36th in 27:54), Robbie Moore (54th in 29:14), Tony Hackett (58th in 29:31) and Cynthia Perucca (138th in 39:43).

On the same morning we had runners in two of the events held in Westport. Because he was carrying an Achilles injury into the race, Ross Neill decided to turn the half marathon into a training run, placing 61st in a field of 1342 in 90:41. Ross was followed across the line in the warm and hilly race by Alan Martin (972nd in 2:10:49). Then, in the 10k, Annie Hughes was our lone competitor. Annie placed a creditable 27th and 3rd in 42:01 in the field of 1402 finishers, despite adding 600m to the distance when she took a wrong turn at the 9th kilometre.

There were several races in Ireland on Sunday. We had at least 4 runners in the Windmill 10k Run in Garristown, Co. Dublin, incorporating the Co. Dublin Road Championships. In a field of 528, Alan Sheehy placed 29th in 39:10, followed by Chris Bannon (233rd in 50:05), Brendan Glynn (264th in 51:44) and Darina Scully (271st and 72nd in 51:45).

Another runner managing a possible injury, Sarah Bradley, ran in the Omagh half marathon, which she completed thankfully without too much difficulty in 1:56:40 for 1452nd and 400th places in a field of 2896 finishers. Aoife Matthews ran in the Sonia O’Sullivan Cobh 10-miler, with its field of 903 finishers. Aoife placed 221st and 35th in 76:08. Then, in West Cork, Charles Cartledge took on the Sheep’s Head Ultra, a 62km trail race. In extremely windy conditions (an easterly 37.5kph headwind for the second half), Charles completed the challenge in 9:13. Lastly, Isabelle Cairns took part in a duathlon (bike and run) race in Co. Kilkenny. In the 3k run element, she recorded a time of 12:58.

Further afield, we had long distance runners racing all over Europe as well as in the US and in the Southern Hemisphere. Over in Australia, one of our exiles there, Maurice Kelter, came home in 2nd place in the 725-strong field in the Run2Cure half marathon in Sydney. Maurice recorded an excellent time of 77:56. John Lohan and Tara Murphy fulfilled a bucket-list ambition of Tara's to run in the Two Oceans Ultra Marathon, a race in Cape Town of 56km. In sweltering conditions, alleviated slightly by a a 5:15 start, John completed the distance in 5:31:52, with Tara running 6:52:12. Meanwhile, in Europe, Cliodhna O’Reilly participated in the Ibiza half marathon where she ran a time of 2:07:24. Anna Hoesl and Michael Tung Le ran in the Berlin Half marathon, with Anna running 91 minutes and Michael finishing in 2:32. Then, in the Prague half marathon, John Corish ran 1:53:25. Over in Washington DC, one of our NY exiles ran in the Cherry Blossom 10-miler, a lovely flat run taking in Rock Creek Park, several monuments and East Potomac Park. Damien O'Brien completed the distance in 61:27, quite possibly a PB.

Elsewhere, Brian McGuckin was our sole representative in the warm and hilly Zaragoza Marathon in Spain, which he completed in a great time of 3:07:09. Similar conditions reigned in Milan, where the race temperature reached 19 degrees. We had 4 runners, two of them pacing, in the event. They were led home by Liam Nagle, who, despite a stitch at 30k, still managed an excellent time of 3:18:59. Liam was followed by 3:50 pacer Olwyn Dunne (3:49:47) and by GianPiero Allerta (4:02:49). Joe Dunne was also pacing but, not feeling great, had to walk after 35k. He completed the event but he had removed his chiptimer before the finish.

Completely opposite conditions were to be found in Vienna and Bratislava on the same day. Both marathons were run in chilly and quite windy conditions. The temperature at the start for both races was 1 degree Celsius, with a wind chill effect of -6 degrees and both events experienced strong winds. Kevin Kenny ran in Vienna, where he recorded a time of 4:22:22, whilst James Moran ran in Slovakia, where he produced a time of 3:43:30.

Over the weekend, one of our exiles in Switzerland, Lukasz Batruch, ran in the Dubendorf 10k, which he completed in 38:49, whilst two of our Spanish exiles, Esther Requena Ferri and Cristian Vilchez Ceballos, ran once again in Malaga. In a street race of approx. 4.75k, Esther ran 17:49, whilst Cristian ran 15:47. Sunday also marked the first stage of the 39th edition of the Marathon des Sables in Morocco, covering 32km. We have one runner this year in the week-long, 6-stage, event covering a cumulative distance of approx. 250km. At the end of the first stage, Áine Kenny is lying 430th overall and 58th female finisher out of a starting field in excess of 1000 runners. She completed the gruelling 32km stage in 5:18:18.

There appeared to be no first finishers from the club recorded this week in Saturday morning’s parkruns, although we did come close. Susanne English placed 12th and 2nd in the 61-strong Laytown Beach parkrun. Her time was 26:12. Meanwhile, Sarah Lyons placed 6th and 2nd in 24:12 in Tolka Valley Park. Sarah was joined in the 45-strong field by Maria Pertl who placed 21st and 8th in 29:00. Emma Rowe placed 19th and 2nd (possibly behind a member of her family who took the first finisher honours) in a time of 21:01 in Poolbeg. In the field of 244, Kenan Furlong placed 3rd in 18:07, and he was followed by James Sherry (9th in 19:14), Kabir Sala (15th in 20:16) and Mikel Crisostomo (17th in 20:50). Then, following Emma, came Louise Dobbyn (40th and 4th in 22:14) and she was followed by Fiona Bane (67th and 10th in 24:23) and Bo Chicoine (78th in 24:49).

Further back came Tanja Narancic (128th and 39th in 27:18), Aitor Arribas Velasco (129th in 27:19) just behind, Fanny Trébouet (157th and 52nd in 29:24) just ahead of Lisa Branigan (158th and 53rd in 29:26), Siobhan Russell (161st and 55th in 29:30) and Lorraine McMahon (166th and 58th in 29:53). Rebecca Kelly completed the contingent (206th and 87th in 33:20).

We had 4 runners in Shanganagh with its field of 261. Dee Lawlor placed 5th in 18:32, followed by David Carter, incorporating a long run (11th in 19:49), Máirín Shine (175th and 46th in 29:28) and Lisa Shine (187th and 53rd in 30:20). Oisin Corish placed 12th in 22:12 alongside 103 other runners in Sligo, whilst Dale Whelehan took 8th spot running with 96 other participants in Glengarriff. Dale’s time was 24:01. Gary Park took up parkrunning this weekend in Marlay, where he placed 17th in 19:49, followed, in the field of 564, by Phil Sykes (62nd in 22:35) and Aoife McCarthy (86th and 11th in 23:15), whilst, in Malahide, Aoife Cowhie ran 25:56 for 128th and 26th places in a field of 347.

Colm Foley ran once again in Griffeen Park where, in afield of 262, he recorded a time of 25:01 to place 61st, whilst Darina Scully joined 128 other runners in River Valley Park where she placed 65th and 18th in 29:16. Paul F. Kelly ran 25:57 for 73rd place in the 219-strong field in Poppintree, whilst Mairead Cashman joined 228 other runners in Fairview where she placed 155th and 57th in 31:33.

Finally, outside of Ireland, Olwyn Dunne ran in the Milano Nord parkrun. In a field of 233, Olwyn ran 26:42, taking 100th and 16th places, whilst in Donaupark in Vienna, Kevin Kenny placed 197th in 28:26 in a field of 403. In England, Mary Noelle Rohan ran in Cassiobury in Watford, where, in a field of 558, she placed 400th and 135 in 33:07, whilst Rob Glascott and Eva Kennedy, two oof our exiles in London, joined a field of 1124 in Battersea Park, where Rob placed 140th in 20:12 and Eva took 343rd spot in 23:57. Meanwhile, one of our other London exiles, Jeanie Watson, ran in Crathes Castle on Deeside in Scotland where, in a field of 101, she placed 22nd and 3rd in 25:08.
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Westport 10k (1402)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Bryan Renton 1 00:34:55
8 Ciara Conway 1 00:38:58
Crusaders AC runner
27 Annie Hughes 00:42:01 (3)
Full results here: https://sportmaniacs.com/en/races/westport-marathon-2025/67f13e57-4604-40d2-b018-49dcac1f2682/rankings
Westport Half Marathon (1342)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 James Moran 1 01:15:40
16 Leah Lawler 1 01:24:26
Crusaders AC runners
61 Ross Neill 01:30:41
972 Alan Martin 02:10:49
Full results here: https://sportmaniacs.com/en/races/westport-marathon-2025/67f13e57-4604-40d2-b018-49dcac1f2682/rankings
BHAA DCC 4k road race (215)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Sean Doran 1 00:20:54
8 Laura McDonnell 1 00:23:09
Crusaders AC runners
9 Joe Walsh 00:23:13
16 Kieran Martin 00:24:16
17 Clare Sullivan 00:24:24 (4)
23 Irene Gorman 00:25:28 (5)
27 Sean Murphy 00:26:07
36 David O’Donnell 00:27:54
54 Robbie Moore 00:29:14
58 Anthony Hackett 00:29:31
138 Cynthia Perucca 00:39:43
Full results here: https://members.bhaa.ie/results/race/529
Omagh Half Marathon (2896)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Eoin Mullan 1 01:07:16
32 Victoria Atkinson 1 01:18:28
Crusaders AC runner
1452 Sarah Bradley 01:56:40 (400)
Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/35th_spar_omagh_half_marathon__5k/5518/results
Windmill Run 10k (Dublin Championships) (528)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Jamie Kavanagh Shiels 1 00:32:57
21 Ciara Brady 1 00:38:01
Crusaders AC runners
29 Alan Sheehy 00:39:10
233 Chris Bannon 00:51:44
264 Brendan Glynn 00:51:44
271 Darina Scully 00:51:45 (72)
Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/the_windmill_run_5k__10k_dublin_champs/5603/results
Sonia O’Sullivan Cobh 10-miler (903)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Ben Connor 1 00:48:15
8 Lily Partridge 1 00:54:44
Crusaders AC runner
221 Aoife Matthews 01:16:08 (35)
Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/sonia_osullivan_cobh_10/5517/results
Laytown Beach Parkrun (61)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Eadaoin Moore 1 00:22:15
2 Brian Murphy 1 00:22:24
Crusaders AC runner
12 Susanne English 00:26:12 (2)
Tolka Valley Parkrun (45)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 John Foley 1 00:21:49
4 Aleksandra Sobota 1 00:23:35
Crusaders AC runners
6 Sarah Lyons 00:24:12 (2)
21 Maria Pertl 00:29:00 (8)
Glengarriff Parkrun (97)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Shane O’Brien 1 00:21:22
6 Lorraine O’Sullivan 1 00:22:59
Crusaders AC runner
8 Dale Whelehan 00:24:01
Fairview Parkrun (229)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Daniel Toal 1 00:18:06
12 Ava Rose Clarke 1 00:20:51
Crusaders AC runner
155 Mairead Cashman 00:31:33 (57)
Poolbeg Parkrun (244)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Sebastian Hansen 1 00:17:40
18 Eimear Rowe 1 00:21:00
Crusaders AC runners
3 Kenan Furlong 00:18:07
9 James Sherry 00:19:14
15 Kabir Sala 00:20:16
17 Mikel Crisostomo 00:20:50
19 Emma Rowe 00:21:01 (2)
40 Louise Dobbyn 00:22:14 (4)
41 Josie Ward 00:22:17 (5)
67 Fiona Bane 00:24:23 (10)
78 Bo Chicoine 00:24:49
128 Tanja Narancic 00:27:18 (39)
129 Aitor Arribas Velasco 00:217:19
157 Fanny Trébouet 00:29:24 (52)
158 Lisa Branigan 00:29:26 (53)
161 Siobhan Russell 00:29:30 (55)
206 Rebecca Kelly 00:33:20 (87)
Sligo Parkrun (104)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Brian Kinsella 1 00:19:00
5 Fiona Stapleton 1 00:21:14
Crusaders AC runner
12 Oisin Corish 00:22:12
Poppintree Parkrun (219)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Ryan Wheeler 1 00:17:55
17 Nessa Byrne 1 00:21:51
Crusaders AC runner
73 Paul F. Kelly 00:25:57
Malahide Parkrun (347)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Robert Frewen 1 00:16:17
7 Annette Kealy 1 00:18:55
Crusaders AC runner
128 Aoife Cowhie 00:25:56 (26)
Marlay Parkrun (564)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Fionn Neville 1 00:17:08
31 Niamh Keegan 1 00:21:01
Crusaders AC runners
17 Gary Park 00:19:49
62 Phil Sykes 00:22:35
86 Aoife McCarthy 00:23:15 (11)
Shanganagh Parkrun (261)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Kieran Little 1 00:16:29
17 Emily Kane 1 00:20:44
Crusaders AC runners
5 Derek Lawlor 00:18:32
11 David Carter 00:19:49
175 Máirín Shine 00:29:28 (46)
187 Lisa Shine 00:30:20 (53)
Griffeen Parkrun (262)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Michael Comer 1 00:18:14
19 Maia Hannon 1 00:21:25
Crusaders AC runner
61 Colm Foley 00:25:01
River Valley Parkrun (129)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Viktoras Kuzminas 1 00:18:26
17 Aliyah Riyad 1 00:23:08
Crusaders AC runner
65 Darina Scully 00:29:16 (18)

What a super day for the inaugural Dublin City Half Marathon! The well-organised race was conducted entirely on a loop of Dublin’s northside, involving inner city and coastal suburbs and was a great boost for the neighbourhood. As if to emphasise this, those of us standing near the Luke Kelly bridge at around 2.5k were treated to cheery greetings from Kelly Harrington as she jogged around in the minutes leading up to the 8:30 start.

Conditions were chilly at the start in O'Connell Street, but not overly so at 8 degrees and the strong winds of the day before had dissipated somewhat, although runners were to get a bit of a rude awakening as they turned for home after their descent from Raheny onto the Tolka estuary to make their way home to the finish on Guild Street just before the Sam Beckett Bridge. There was also, surprisingly, not a cloud in the sky, which made the going quite warm at times, particularly with the wind behind you. Inevitably there were tired eyes before the race suffering from the lost hour as the clocks moved forward, but this did not show in the results, with many of those running recording PBs on what was quite a helpful course, with only one real drag from the 4th through the 6th kilometre.

We had at least 78 Crusaders, some not having raced in a while and some also taking on their first half marathon in the field of nearly 12,000 finishers. Indeed, the field differed significantly from the DCM in that it did not suffer much of a degradation from the original registrations, perhaps 5%, which is particularly gratifying for the organisers and also indicates how much interest there was in running the race (many swapping bibs no doubt). By all accounts, it was also extremely well-organised from start to finish, although if there is any criticism it would be the narrowness of the fenced in route taking runners along the Clontarf promenade to the Alfie Byrne Road. There were also several chicanes in that section which made it congested, particularly when the pacer bubbles came through from 90 minutes upward.

With so many runners from the club running it is hard to cover everyone in this text, but their results are plain to see. We had a great tussle at the end of the race between Brendan Murphy (53rd in 76:32) and Brian O’Kelly (55th in 76:46) who had run most of the race side by side, only to be overtaken towards the end by Kevin Fitzgibbon who finished as our lead Crusader in 48th place (76:07) having been quite far behind until the final 3-4km. Among those breaking 1:40, of which half our number did (with 20 finishing under 90 minutes) were Michael O’Conor who placed 85th in 78:39,and visually-impaired and international triathlete Donnacha McCarthy and his guide (1st in his VI category in 80:56), just ahead of  T.J. Bourke (141st in 80:57). Included in the sub 1:40 finishers were also Paul O’Hara who enjoyed a 3.5 mins PB improvement (83:51 for 265th), Kieran Martin (273rd in 83:58), Kenan Furlong (284th in 83:30), James Sherry (353rd in a PB of 85:32) and Garret Connolly (359th also in a PB time of 85:32). Next, in the same cohort came Yvonne Macauley (363rd overall, 14th female finisher and 3rd F35 in 86:00). She may be likely to be bumped up in terms of female finishing positions as there seemed to be a few male names among the top women finishers. We'll see.  Yvonne was followed by Lorenzo Battistin in a PB time of 86:17 for 431st place. Lorenzo was followed by the departing Rory Goldsmith (480th in 87:27) and he was followed by our second female finisher, Carolyn O’Reilly, in a PB time of 89:00 (for 594th and 27th spots) a couple of weeks before heading to Boston for the marathon in the company of others who ran the race too. Gerard Moore was next (653rd in a PB time of 88:56), followed by Ciara Regan who had a storming run through the field (666th and 35th in 89:42). Aoife Quigley was our 4th female runner home in 90:04 (717th and 39th), followed by Kev Moore (with a PB time of 89:30 in 741st place), Oisin Browne (747th in 90:20), Tomás Bradley (791st in a PB time of 88:23), Tom Gleeson (825th in 90:28), Eoghan Corrigan (833rd in yet another PB time of 91:13), David Healy (876th in 91:01) and Peter Beddy in his first half marathon (881st in a PB time of 91:28).

Emma Rowe came next (942nd and 72nd in 92:51), followed by Shane Egan (1156th in 92:42), the ubiquitous Kabir Sala (1211th in a PB time of 93:56), Eoghan Kerins (1270th in 96:18), Mary Donnelly (1334th and 140th in 95:57), Tara Gavin (1432nd and 155th in a PB time of 96:07), James Bradshaw (also with a super PB of 97:38 for 1545th) and Joanne Carey, not to be outdone with a PB of her own (99:00 for 1749th and 203rd places).

Paul Moloney was a late entrant, placing 1901st in 98:24, and he was followed by Lisa Branigan (1925th and 233rd in 98:31) and Cría Dowling (2274th and 290th in 98:57).

Dee Ni Chearbhaill was only just outside 1:40 (2438th and 329th in 1:41:01) and honourable mentions should go to the likes of those recording PBs or running a half marathon for the first time. In the latter category, Susan Clarke ran 1:44:37 for 3410th and 564th place along with Ailish Hassett (4672nd and 1000th in 1:53:00), while in the former category, Mark McGovern, who had experienced a rather traumatic car accident just after training on Thursday, obtained a PB time of 1:47:54 for 3469th place. Also, Eilish Keogh placed 4054th and 782nd in a PB time of 1:49:53, along with Orla O’Neill who ran 1:50:02 for 4093rd and 793rd in the same time. Claire Godfrey (4782nd and 1045th in 1:51:46), John Corish (5022nd in 1:50:10), April Dunne (whose official time and place at press had not been captured but who ran 1:52:05), Joy Flaherty (9510th and 3439th in 2:13:52) and Michael Tung Le (10959th in 2:25:03) all had PB performances. Special mention should also be made of the run by Paula Bradshaw, who, nursing an injury (which had significantly curtailed her outdoor training), had had her doubts about running in the Boston marathon, but after fitting the half in to a run of about 30k, she got round in 1:56:17 (for 6204th and 1640th places), giving her tons of confidence for the adventure to come. Congrats to all who ran! The full results appear below.

On the same day, a couple of Crusaders who had failed to get into the Dublin half, instead opted to ruin the half marathon in Dundalk, with excellent results. In a field of 840, Ciara Lynch placed 94th and 8th in 94:42, whilst Claire Reidy placed 193rd and 21st in 1:43:42.

The day before, we had runners take part in one of the two races on offer in the Clongowes Run in Kilcock Co. Kildare. We had no one in the 5k, but in the 10k we had 3 members who podiumed in the field of 57. Donatas Jocius placed 2nd in 38:10, followed by Alan Sheehy who took 3rd spot in 40:11. Not to be outdone, Rebecca Fleming placed 11th and 3rd in 46:52.

The Maurice Mullins 50k ultra, conducted along the Wicklow Way, took place on Saturday, with its climb of 2140m. Two of our clubmates took part in the field of 241 finishers. Richie Phelan placed 111th in 6:25:23, ahead of Daniel O’Mahony who placed 117th in 6:26:36, just behind.

Numbers seemed to be back up again in the parkruns this weekend, bolstered perhaps by the benign weather we experienced on Saturday morning before the wind got up and also the need for a light shakeout before the half marathon.

As usual, our largest turnout was in Poolbeg with at least 20 of our fellow members, some getting a shakeout before the half marathon. Stephen Hurley led the field of 221 home in 17:25, and he was followed by Adrian Groarke (18th in 20:28), Kabir Sala (24th in 21:40), Josie Ward (41st and on the podium in 2nd place in 22:58), Kenan Furlong (50th in 23:47), Sharon Woods (57th and 6th in 24:09), Fiona Bane (61st and 7th in 24:35), Russell Murphy (65th in 24:47), Tara Murphy (93rd and 20th in 26:45), Patricia Velasquez (106th and 28th in 27:25), Aitor Arribas Velasco (107th in 27:26), Louise O’Riordan (118th and 35th in 27:50), Bo Chicoine (131st in 28:38), Una McCullagh (141st and 50th in 29:05), Ellen Walsh (142nd and 51st in 29:06), Mari Hansen (145th and 53rd in 29:12), Fanny Trébouet (153rd and 60th in 29:39), Rebecca Kelly (154th and 61st in the same time), Kevin Kenny (157th in 29:55) and Niamh Trihy (204th and 92nd in 37:36). Meanwhile, Darina Scully ran once again in River Valley Park, where she placed 20th and 3rd in 24:23, alongside 118 other participants, whilst Ross Neill, in marathon training, headed to Dungannon, where, in a field of 68, he placed 5th in 20:08.

In St. Anne’s, with its field of 554, Mikel Crisostomo returned from the Caribbean to place 7th in 18:23, followed by Peter O’Toole (14th in 19:12). Kev Moore and Mary Donnelly ran in Bushy Park, where Kev placed 38th in 24:05, followed in the field of 223 by Mary (51st and 7th in 25:35). Chris Bannon ran in Father Collins Park where he placed 34th in 25:32 in a field of 137, whilst Oisin Corish took 13th spot in 22:22 in the 90-strong field in Sligo. Mairead Cashman joined 242 other runners in Tramore Valley Cork, where she placed 126th and 31st in 29:15, whilst, in Fairview, Hannah Jones placed 135th and 45th in 31:27 alongside Cría Dowling (136th and 46th in 31:28) in a field of 204.

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Cabinteely’s parkrun were Tomás Dunne (74th in 27:48), followed by Olwyn Dunne (76th and 16th in 27:59) alongside Tanja Narancic (77th and 17th in the same time), Lisa Shine (146th and 59th in 35:18) alongside Máirín Shine (147th and 60th in the same time too). The field measured 212.

Meanwhile, we had at least 3 runners in the field of 508 in Marlay Park. Fabien Daviaud placed 22nd in 21:18, followed by Aoife McCarthy (99th and 18th in 24:39) and Carina Davidson (370th and 156th in 32:10). The club had at least 2 runners in Shanganagh with a field of 346. Piarais Neary ran 20:15 for 19th spot, followed by Jill Nason (235th and 82nd in 29:09). Then, in Tolka Valley, Phelim Murray joined 47 other runners, placing 16th in 28:44, followed by Sarah Lyons (19th and 6th in 29:01) and Maria Pertl, running her 200th parkrun (22nd and 9th in 29:38). Brendan Glynn placed 134th in 30:35 in the 224-strong field in Donabate, whilst Colm Foley joined 238 other runners in Griffeen Park, where he placed 39th in 23:38.

Finally, from abroad, one of our exiles in Sydney, Australia, Deirdre Kennedy, in her 100th parkrun, placed 78th overall in 29:40 in Centennial Park, then, closer to home, Toby Benham placed 16th in the 166-strong field in Rugby in a time of 22:17, whilst Thom Martini placed 54th in 23:00 in the field of 457 in Leicester Victoria, and Aidan Hudner placed 92nd in 22:36 in Victoria, Glasgow with a field of 572.

Clongowes 10k (57)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 James Smith 1 00:34:37
4 Emma Leahy 1 00:41:05
Crusaders AC runners
2 Donatas Jocius 00:38:10
3 Alan Sheehy 00:40:11
11 Rebecca Fleming 00:46:52 (3)
Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/the-clongowes-run-2025/#2_9D70EA
Dublin City Half Marathon (11837)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Killian Mooney 1 01:05:39
76 Nicola Sheridan 1 01:17:59
Crusaders AC runners
48 Kevin Fitzgibbon 01:16:07
53 Brendan Murphy 01:16:32
55 Brian O’Kelly 01:16:46
62 Rory O’Kennedy 01:17:12 (PB)
85 Michael O’Conor 01:18:39
1 Donnacha McCarthy 01:20:56 (VI)
141 T.J. Bourke 01:20:57
265 Paul O’Hara 01:23:51 (PB)
273 Kieran Martin 01:23:58
284 Kenan Furlong 01:23:30
353 James Sherry 01:25:32 (PB)
359 Garret Connolly 01:25:32 (PB)
363 Yvonne Macauley 01:26:00 (14)
431 Lorenzo Battistin 01:26:17 (PB)
480 Rory Goldsmith 01:27:27
594 Carolyn O’Reilly 01:29:00 (PB) (27)
653 Gerard Moore 01:28:56 (PB)
666 Ciara Regan 01:29:42 (35)
717 Aoife Quigley 01:30:04 (39)
741 Kev Moore 01:29:30 (PB)
747 Oisin Browne 01:30:20
791 Tomás Bradley 01:28:23 (PB)
825 Tom Gleeson 01:30:28
833 Eoghan Corrigan 01:31:13 (PB)
876 David Healy 01:31:01
881 Peter Beddy 01:31:28 (PB)
942 Emma Rowe 01:32:51 (72)
1156 Shane Egan 01:32:42
1211 Kabir Sala 01:33:56 (PB)
1270 Eoghan Kerins 01:36:18
1334 Mary Donnelly 01:35:57 (140)
1432 Tara Gavin 01:36:07 (PB) (155)
1545 James Bradshaw 01:37:38 (PB)
1749 Joanne Carey 01:39:00 (PB) (203)
1901 Paul Moloney 01:38:24
1925 Lisa Branigan 01:38:31 (233)
2274 Cría Dowling 01:38:57 (290)
2438 Deirdre Ni Chearbhaill 01:41:01 (329)
2701 Noel Carr 01:44:05
2775 Paul F. Kelly 01:43:54
2881 Séamas Bulaeir 01:43:55
​2958 Triona Quill 01:42:54 (437)
3027 Phelim Murray 01:42:45
3410 Susan Clarke 01:44:37 (PB) (564)
3434 Brian O’Neill 01:46:25
3469 Mark McGovern 01:47:54 (PB)
3473 Carmel Higgins 01:47:38 (582)
3513 Ellen Walsh 01:48:22 (595)
​3758 Laura O'Malley 01:48:48 (686)
3760 Emer Kenny 01:46:47 (687)
3809 Aoife McCarthy 01:47:05 (708)
4054 Eilis Keogh 01:49:53 (PB) (782)
4093 Orla O’Neill 01:50:02 (PB) (793)
4148 Phil Sykes 01:47:04
4672 Ailish Hassett 01:53:00 (1000)
4696 Aitor Arribas Velasco 01:51:20
4782 Claire Godfrey 01:51:46 (PB) (1045)
5022 John Corish 01:50:10 (PB)
XXXX April Dunne 01:52:05 (PB) (XXXX)
5197 Emily Glen 01:52:33 (1208)
5413 Edel Doherty 01:54:15 (1288)
5598 Stephen Ryan 01:54:01
5623 Lloyd Hamilton 01:54:44
5654 Patricia Velasquez 01:54:22 (XXXX)
5774 Hannah Jones 01:55:05 (1440)
5780 Amy O’Donoghue 01:56:57 (1443)
6204 Paula Bradshaw 01:56:17 (1640)
6207 Franky Keane 01:56:17
6420 Olwyn Dunne 01:59:51 (1724) (PACER)
7240 Kevin Kenny 02:03:11
7864 Kelly Brown 02:05:36 (2347)
8026 Ryan Hoey 02:06:17
8044 Lisa Shine 02:04:53 (2562)
8578 Paul Campbell 02:09:32 (PACER)
9284 Lorraine McMahon 02:10:51 (3297)
9510 Joy Flaherty 02:13:52 (PB) (3439)
9563 Máirín Shine 02:16:09 (3476)
10959 Michael Tung Le 02:25:03 (PB) 
Full results here: https://www.tdleventservices.co.uk/en/results-embed.php?event=4100
Dundalk Half marathon (840)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Robbie Hagen 1 01:10:39
42 Jess Moorehead 1 01:28:55
Crusaders AC runners
94 Ciara Lynch 01:34:42 (8)
193 Claire Reidy 01:43:42 (21)
Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/lifestyle_dundalk_half_marathon__10k_2025/5553/results
IMRA Maurice Mullins 50k (241)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Enda Cloake 1 04:21:48
19 Esther Dickson 1 05:13:05
Crusaders AC runners
111 Richard Phelan 06:25:23
117 Daniel O’Mahony 06:26:36
Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2691/category/O/
Cabinteely Parkrun (212)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Niall Kelly 1 00:18:05
2 Robyn Kennedy 1 00:19:58
Crusaders AC runners
74 Tomás Dunne 00:27:48
76 Olwyn Dunne 00:27:59 (16)
77 Tanja Narancic 00:27:59 (17)
146 Lisa Shine 00:35:18 (59)
147 Máirín Shine 00:35:18 (60)
Tolka Valley Parkrun (48)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Adam Carroll 1 00:21:48
3 Miriam Kearney 1 00:22:33
Crusaders AC runners
16 Phelim Murray 00:28:44
19 Sarah Lyons 00:29:01 (6)
22 Maria Pertl 00:29:38 (9)
Father Collins Parkrun (137)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Pawel Kaim 1 00:18:43
28 Olivia Reilly 1 00:24:39
Crusaders AC runner
34 Chris Bannon 00:25:32
Fairview Parkrun (204)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Darran Lovely 1 00:20:16
29 Anne-Marie Glynn 1 00:24:29
Crusaders AC runners
1 Darran Lovely 00:20:16
135 Hannah Jones 00:31:27 (45)
136 Cría Dowling 00:31:28 (46)
Poolbeg Parkrun (221)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Stephen Hurley 1 00:17:25
22 Sonja Fuhrmann 1 00:21:23
Crusaders AC runners
1 Stephen Hurley 00:17:25
18 Adrian Groarke 00:20:28
24 Kabir Sala 00:21:40
41 Josie Ward 00:22:58 (2)
57 Sharon Woods 00:24:09 (6)
61 Fiona Bane 00:24:35 (7)
65 Russell Murphy 00:24:47
93 Tara Murphy 00:26:45 (20)
106 Patricia Velasquez 00:27:25 (28)
107 Aitor Arribas Velasco 00:27:26
118 Louise O’Riordan 00:27:50 (35)
131 Bo Chicoine 00:28:38
141 Una McCullagh 00:29:05 (50)
142 Ellen Walsh 00:29:06 (51)
145 Mari Hansen 00:29:12 (53)
153 Fanny Trébouet 00:29:39 (60)
154 Rebecca Kelly 00:29:39 (61)
157 Kevin Kenny 00:29:55
204 Niamh Trihy 00:37:36 (92)
Sligo Parkrun (90)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Thomas Kelly 1 00:17:27
14 Ciara Gilmartin 1 00:22:39
Crusaders AC runner
13 Oisin Corish 00:22:22
Tramore Valley, Cork Parkrun (243)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Conrad Watt 1 00:17:13
9 Siobhan Horgan 1 00:19:42
Crusaders AC runner
126 Mairead Cashman 00:29:15 (31)
St. Anne’s Parkrun (554)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Robert Mackey 1 00:16:53
16 Lyra Frizelle 1 00:19:16
Crusaders AC runners
7 Mikel Crisostomo 00:18:23
14 Peter O’Toole 00:19:12
Bushy Parkrun (223)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Máirtín Ó Goibín 1 00:18:21
9 Michelle Burke 1 00:20:12
Crusaders AC runners
38 Kev Moore 00:24:05
51 Mary Donnelly 00:25:35 (7)
Mungret Parkrun (111)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Daniel McCarthy 1 00:19:09
18 Cliona McCarthy 1 00:24:04
Crusaders AC runner
5 Luke Haran 00:21:56
Shanganagh Parkrun (346)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 James Burke 1 00:17:27
5 Isabella Prina Mello 1 00:18:42
Crusaders AC runners
19 Piarais Neary 00:20:15
235 Jill Nason 00:29:09 (82)
Dungannon Parkrun (68)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Barry Kirkland 1 00:19:30
15 Tracey O’Donnell 1 00:23:28
Crusaders AC runner
5 Ross Neill 00:20:08
Griffeen Parkrun (239)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 James Sherlock 1 00:19:02
3 Niamh Murphy 1 00:19:23
Crusaders AC runner
39 Colm Foley 00:23:38
Donabate Parkrun (224)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Seamus Walsh 1 00:19:06
19 Geraldine McHale 1 00:21:37
Crusaders AC runner
134 Brendan Glynn 00:30:35
River Valley Parkrun (119)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 James Babajide 1 00:20:17
12 Donna McCarthy 1 00:23:08
Crusaders AC runner
20 Darina Scully 00:24:23 (3)

It was a fun morning on Sunday supporting the national 10k road racing championships in Dunboyne, where we witnessed the most amazing feat by ex-Crusader Niamh Allen completely destroying the women’s field (and most of the elite men too!) with a course record in 31:44 and registering possibly the fastest 10k by a woman on Irish soil (given that Sonia O’Sullivan’s 30:59 Irish record and Catherina McKiernan’s 31:21 were both run in Milan and London, respectively).  

Conditions were excellent for the race. With the temperature a cool 10 degrees and a little breezy towards the end, but not strong enough to impede, there were 1435 finishers, among them 33 Crusaders who finished, in the race, which claimed to be the 54th edition, although it has only recently been a 10k, having for many years been a 4-mile event. The anti-clockwise course appears now to be largely an extension of the reasonably familiar BHAA 5-mile course. It is a fast and relatively flat course, although not as described with a downhill finish to the Dunboyne AC track. If anything, it is slightly uphill. Regardless, it was a well-organised event involving a quality field and with a great spread to follow! A super spectacle!

Barry McCarthy with a likely PB in a time of 33:32 and 90th place was our first runner home. Kevin Fitzgibbon followed (104th in 33:47) with Vinnie McGuinness (116th in 34:06) just pipping Ger Forde (118th in 34:01) at the line just behind. The men’s O/35 team of Kevin, Vinnie and Ger placed 7th in a 39-strong club competition. We had more than 40% of our contingent finishing in under 40 minutes, and they included Brian Regan (153rd in a PB of 34:31), Joe McDermott (189th in 35:24), Ciarain Kelly (205th in 35:30), Henry Griffin (231st and 36:09 in his first road 10k), Paul O’Hara (259th in a truly super PB time of 36:40) and Orla Walsh, also running the distance for the first time. Orla placed 279th overall and 25th female finisher in an excellent 37:05. In addition, those under 40 minutes included Karl Fitzmaurice (322nd in 38:01), Adrienne Jordan (388th, 45th female and 3rd F45, picking up national bronze in her age category), Irene Gorman (426th and 58th in 39:39), Eddie Nugent (428th in 39:56) and Brian McGuckin (441st in 39:57).

Emma Rowe (453rd and 66th in 40:30, finding it tough with a niggling injury towards the end) was next, followed by Carolyn Browne (474th and 72nd in 40:48) and Ciara Regan (518th and 83rd in 41:23). Orla, Adrienne and Ciara made up the senior team as they were registered with Athletics Ireland, placing 5th in a competition involving 41 club teams. Adrienne also scored as an O/35 in the team that included Nina Holmes (525th and 85th in 41:32) and Tara Gavin (608th and 114th in a likely PB of 42:50), and that team also placed 5th in a competition involving 30 club teams. Behind Tara came Kabir Sala, who doesn’t seem to tire of racing, and he placed 615th in 42:55, being followed by Phelim Murray (632nd in 43:55), Joanne Carey (652nd and 130th in 44:04), Emily Glen (704th and 148th in 45:07), Carmel Higgins (766th and 174th in 46:42), Robbie Moore (779th in 46:56), Neil Brown (837th in 48:28), Brendan Glynn (865th in 49:19), Kevin Kenny (888th in 49:38), Paul E. Kelly (1261st in 59:15) and Cynthia Perucca (1343rd and 506th in 64:26). Spare a thought for Kathryn Gibbons who unfortunately was not able to finish dropping out early on and for Michael Wycherley who was forced to walk for the last 3k with an ankle issue.

There were at least three other races on the roads in Ireland on the same morning, in which the club was represented. Ciaran Diviney and his partner Ciara Lehane, now ensconced in Co. Cork, took part in the Mallow 10-miler with its field of 1232 finishers. Ciaran placed 58th and 4th M50 in 63:06, whilst Ciara placed 409th and 66th in 76:00. The race saw a notable PB from 2nd placed ex-Crusader Shane Collins who ran 52:58.

Then, down in Wicklow, the 10k and half marathon races in what used to be called the “Gaol Break” took place. On the hilly course, we had two runners in the 10k. Darina Scully placed 145th and 30th in a field of 788 with a time of 53:13. Darina was followed by Carina Davidson who placed 320th and 105th in 59:38. We had at least 6 runners in the equally hilly half marathon with its field of 1256 finishers. Marcus Phelan took 120th spot in 96:50 and he was followed by David Carter who was treating the event as a training run (192nd in 1:41:16) and then by Diarmuid Fahey (239th in 1:44:27), Luke Haran (294th in 1:46:56), Phil Sykes (440th in 1:51:38) and by Conor Lydon (750th in 2:03:03).

Further afield over the weekend, on Friday evening one of our exiles in Australia, Maurice Kelter, ran in the Night of 5k PBs in Sydney, where he did record a PB with a finishing time of 15:58. Closer to home, James Sherry ran in the Stramilano half marathon where he also recorded a PB time of 87:16. In Spain, two of our Spanish exiles, Esther Requena Ferri and Cristian Vilchez Ceballos, ran in the Malaga half marathon, with Esther running 87:53 and Cristian running 78:08. On a trip to Spain, Louise Dobbyn joined the race too, finishing in an official time of 1:43:02.

There was at least one race in the mountains this weekend. On Sunday morning Donatas Jocius, Becky Quinn and Jill Nason ran in the Devil’s Glen mountain race in Co. Wicklow with a distance of around 8.5k and a climb of abut 320m. In a field of 123, Donatas placed 2nd in 35:40, followed by Becky (21st and 2nd in 40:40) and Jill (56th and 14th in 48:27).

The fields involved in parkruns on Saturday morning were reduced, possibly because of the 10k the following day.

In any event, we had at least two first finishers on the morning. Isabelle Cairns ran in the JFK park for the New Ross parkrun, placing 8th overall in a field of 75 and in a time of 22:17. Our other first finisher was Mary Donnelly who joined 210 other runners in Bushy Park where she placed 12th overall in a time of 22:02.

Podium places went to a couple of others. Aoife McCarthy placed 31st and 3rd in the 237-strong field in Donabate with a time of 23:52, whilst Stephen Hurley came home in 3rd place in Poolbeg in a time of 18:31.

Stephen was followed across the line in the smaller overall field than usual of 211 by Kenan Furlong (4th in 18:35), Tom Gleeson (6th in 19:14), Zlatko Kulic (11th in 20:54), Gerard Moore (12th in 21:05) just ahead of Adrian Groarke (13th in 21:11). Next came John Lohan (25th in 22:32) and he was followed by Ross Neill (30th in 22:45), Alan Martin with a 5k PB of 23:46 and 45th spot, Kabir Sala (48th in 24:02), Lloyd Hamilton (50th in 24:05) just ahead of Fergal Morrissey (51st in 24:07) and then by Josie Ward (58th and 8th in 24:55), Fiona Bane (64th and 10th in 25:33), John Corish (68th in 26:01) just ahead of Lisa Branigan (69th and 12th in 26:04). Bo Chicoine was next (74th in 26:17) and he was followed by Tara Murphy (77th and 14th in 26:25), Tanja Narancic (79th and 15th in 26:27), Aitor Arribas Velasco (82nd in 26:29), Aoife Cowhie (86th and 19th in 26:42), Kevin Kenny (130th in 28:55), Maureen McGinley (151st and 58th in 30:50) and Michelle English (152nd and 59th in 30:51). Members may be interested to hear that Anna Gallo’s father, Marco, on a visit to Dublin, also ran, placing 114th in 28:12.

Rebecca Fleming joined Karl Walsh in the 164-strong field in Naas, where Rebecca placed 31st and 4th in 21:57 and Karl took 5th spot overall in 18:58, whilst, in Killarney House, Kev Moore placed 15th in 20:28 in a field of 187. Peter O’Toole was our sole runner in St. Anne’s where he placed 13th in 19:55 in a field of 566, whilst Aisling O’Riordan joined 261 other participants in Tralee where she placed 99th and 26th in 28:06.

We had at least 4 runners in each of Shanganagh and Midleton Greenway parkruns. In the 237-strong field in Shanganagh, Orlaith de Burca placed 149th and 31st in 28:46. Orlaith was followed by Jill Nason (149th and 37th in 29:19) and Lisa Shine (185th and 59th in 31:20) alongside Máirín Shine (186th and 60th in 31:21). Then, in Midleton, Cian Coughlan placed 49th in 25:38, alongside David McEvoy (50th in 23:39) in the 231-strong field. They were followed by Mairead Cashman (97th and 30th in 29:13) and Áine Crotty (210th and 80th in 56:36). Marina White joined 141 other runners in Porterstown where she placed 118th and 61st in 35:31, whilst abroad, Christina Campbell ran alongside 144 other participants in Lake Claremont in Perth, Western Australia where she finished 53rd and 11th in 26:36. Barry O’Neill ran in the Salmon Creek Trail parkrun in Vancouver, Canada, where, in a modest field of 16, he placed 5th in 26:30. Finally, one of our London exiles, Thom Martini, joined 695 other runners in Gunnersbury Park in west London where he placed 447th in 31:08.

Dunboyne 10k (National Championships) (1435)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Jack O’Leary 1 00:29:15
38 Niamh Allen 1 00:31:44 (CR)
Crusaders AC runners
90 Barry McCarthy 00:33:32 (PB)
104 Kevin Fitzgibbon 00:33:47
116 Vinnie McGuinness 00:34:06
118 Ger Forde 0034:01
153 Brian Regan 00:34:31 (PB)
189 Joe McDermott 00:35:24
205 Ciarain Kelly 00:35:30
231 Henry Griffin 00:36:09 (PB)
259 Paul O’Hara 00:36:40 (PB)
279 Orla Walsh 00:37:05 (PB) (25)
322 Karl Fitzmaurice 00:38:01
388 Adrienne Jordan 00:39:20 (45)
426 Irene Gorman 00:39:39 (58)
428 Eddie Nugent 00:39:56
441 Brian McGuckin 00:39:57
453 Emma Rowe 00:40:30 (66)
474 Carolyn Browne 00:40:48 (72)
483 Eoghan Corrigan 00:40:43 (PB)
503 Tim O’Donnell 00:41:20
518 Ciara Regan 00:41:23 (83)
525 Nina Holmes 00:41;32 (85)
608 Tara Gavin 00:42:50 (PB) (114)
615 Kabir Sala 00:42:55
652 Joanne Carey 00:44:04 (130)
704 Emily Glen 00:45:07 (148)
766 Carmel Higgins 00:46:42 (174)
779 Robbie Moore 00:46:56
837 Neil Brown 00:48:28
865 Brendan Glynn 00:49:19
888 Kevin Kenny 00:49:38
1261 Paul E. Kelly 00:59:15
1343 Cynthia Perucca 01:04:26 (506)
Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/dunboyne_54th_road_race_10k_2025/5514/results
Mallow 10-mile race (1232)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Barry Twohig 1 00:52:46
20 Niamh Moore 1 00:58:50
Crusaders AC runners
58 Ciaran Diviney 01:03:06
409 Ciara Lehane 01:16:00
Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/mallow_10_mile_road_race_2025/5649/results
Wicklow Half marathon (1256)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Darragh Keegan 1 01:16:05
28 Jane Hughes 1 01:27:04
Crusaders AC runners
120 Marcus Phelan 01:36:50
192 David Carter 01:41:16
239 Diarmuid Fahey 01:44:27
294 Luke Haran 01:46:56
440 Phil Sykes 01:51:38
750 Conor Lydon 02:03:03
Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/codling_windpark_wicklow_half_marathon__10km_2025/5552/results
Wicklow 10k (788)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Alex Gray 1 00:35:04
31 Grace Curham 1 00:44:08
Crusaders AC runners
145 Darina Scully 00:53:13 (30)
320 Carina Davidson 00:59:38 (105)
Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/codling_windpark_wicklow_half_marathon__10km_2025/5552/results
IMRA Devil’s Glen 8.5k (123)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Barry Minnock 1 00:34:50
18 Niamh Brophy 1 00:40:19
Crusaders AC runners
2 Donatas Jocius 00:35:40
21 Becky Quinn 00:40:40 (2)
56 Jill Nason 00:48:27 (14)
Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2654/category/O/
New Ross Parkrun (75)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Dermot Gorman 1 00:16:49
8 Isabelle Cairns 1 00:22:17
Crusaders AC runner
8 Isabelle Cairns 00:22:17 (1)
Killarney House Parkrun (187)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Isaac Vickers 1 00:16:58
16 Orla Houlihan 1 00:20:45
Crusaders AC runner
15 Kev Moore 00:20:28
Naas Parkrun (164)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Gavin Kelly 1 00:17:11
10 Caroline Ayton 1 00:19:52
Crusaders AC runners
5 Karl Walsh 00:18:58
31 Rebecca Fleming 00:21:57 (4)
Tralee Parkrun (262)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Danny Murphy 1 00:18:59
9 Hannah Redican 1 00:21:34
Crusaders AC runner
99 Aisling O’Riordan 00:28:06 (26)
Poolbeg Parkrun (211)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Christopher O’Reilly 1 00:16:46
10 Ava Rose Clarke 1 00:20:46
Crusaders AC runners
3 Stephen Hurley 00:18:31
4 Kenan Furlong 00:18:35
6 Tom Gleeson 00:19:14
11 Zlatko Kulic 00:20:54
12 Gerard Moore 00:21:05
13 Adrian Groarke 00:21:11
25 John Lohan 00:22:32
30 Ross Neill 00:22:45
45 Alan Martin 00:23:46 (PB)
48 Kabir Sala 00:24:02
50 Lloyd Hamilton 00:24:05
51 Fergal Morrissey 00:24:07
58 Josie Ward 00:24:55 (8)
64 Fiona Bane 00:25:33 (10)
68 John Corish 00:26:01
69 Lisa Branigan 00:26:04 (12)
74 Bo Chicoine 00:26:17
77 Tara Murphy 00:26:25 (14)
79 Tanja Narancic 00:26:27 (15)
82 Aitor Arribas Velasco 00:26:29
86 Aoife Cowhie 00:26:42 (19)
130 Kevin Kenny 00:28:55
151 Maureen McGinley 00:30:50 (58)
152 Michelle English 00:30:51 (59)
Porterstown Parkrun (142)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Thomas O’Neill 1 00:19:43
6 Anna Ryan 1 00:23:03
Crusaders AC runner
118 Martina White 00:35:31 (61)
Donabate Parkrun (237)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Al O’Dowd 1 00:18:51
19 Aoife Begley 1 00:22:50
Crusaders AC runner
31 Aoife McCarthy 00:23:52 (3)
St. Anne’s Parkrun (566)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Daniel Connolly 1 00:17:31
19 Aoibhín O’Connor 1 00:20:19
Crusaders AC runner
13 Peter O’Toole 00:19:55
Bushy Parkrun (211)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Rory McLaughlin 1 00:18:24
12 Mary Donnelly 1 00:22:02
Crusaders AC runner
12 Mary Donnelly 00:22:02 (1)
Midleton Greenway Parkrun (231)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Brendan Maguire 1 00:18:39
7 Kathleen Ryan 1 00:20:36
Crusaders AC runners
49 Cian Coughlan 00:25:38
50 David McEvoy 00:25:39
97 Mairead Cashman 00:29:13 (30)
210 Áine Crotty 00:56:36 (80)
Shanganagh Parkrun (237)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Timothy Bowen 1 00:17:40
34 Mella Garvey 1 00:22:28
Crusaders AC runners
138 Orlaith de Burca 00:28:46 (31)
139 Jill Nason 00:29:19 (37)
185 Lisa Shine 00:31:20 (59)
186 Máirín Shine 00:31:21 (60)

It was great to see so many Crusaders out racing over the long weekend, in Ireland and beyond, with some super results too.

On Paddy’s Day we had runners in three races from 3k to half marathon in distance. Our ladies’ captain Kathryn Gibbons acquitted herself well in a quality-packed elite field, many of whom having been invited, in a 3k race in Letterkenny, where, in a field of 133, she placed 47th overall and 7th female finisher in a great time of 11:06. Further south, we had at least 7 runners taking part in the Mullingar Half marathon. It was reported that it was chilly at the start, but otherwise excellent conditions for racing. 1513 runners completed the distance and our contingent was led home by Aaron Farrell who placed 125th in 85:03. Aaron was followed across the line by Kevin Lambe who obtained a late entry into the event and who placed 323rd in 97:54. Triona Quill (356th overall and 53rd female finisher) was not so far behind Kevin and then came Kabir Sala, in his second half in a week, who placed 411th in 1:41:58. Another late entrant was Franky Keane who profited from Alby Allan’s misfortune in having to pull out at the last minute. Franky finished in 447th spot in 1:43:39 and he was followed by Bo Chicoine (756th in 1:53:51) and by Alan Martin (895th in a PB time of 1:57:19).

On the same day, we had at least 13 athletes take part in the Tallaght AC 5k, which took place over 2 laps of a new course. Orla Walsh distinguished herself by coming home in 2nd place in the women’s race (39th overall in a total field of 512) and in a excellent time of 17:22, possibly a PB for her. Eddie Nugent came in next in 101st place in a time of 19:05 and he was followed closely by Yvonne Macauley (105th and 17th in 19:08). Rebecca Fleming was next, in 172nd and 41st in 20:42, and she was followed by Neil Brown (182nd in 20:54). Chris Bannon also ran, placing 256th in 23:04, and he was followed by Paul F. Kelly (402nd in 27:46) who came in just ahead of Lorraine McMahon (404th and 151st in 27:57).  The contingent was completed by Mairead Cashman (416th and 161st in 28:46), just ahead of Kelly Brown who ran with her sister Sarah (placing 138th and 165th and 139th and 166th in the same time of 29:03), with Maureen McGinley running 29:36 for 430th and 171st spots.

Earlier in the week on Tuesday, we had runners who joined, respectively, substantial fields of 2163 and 716 in the Sandymount Night Run 5k and 10k races, organised by the Bear Group. The races took place as usual, starting and finishing in Seán Moore Park, conducted otherwise along the beach and the narrow paths along the Strand. Caroline Crowley won the women’s race in the 5k in a time of 18:56, whilst we had at least 4 runners in the 10k, who were led home by Jill O’Flynn (81st and 10th in 48:01), followed by Niall Collins (128th in 50:18), Eilish Keogh (188th and 43rd in 50:13) and Maria Kennedy (230th and 55th in 52:42).

In preparation for the Marathon des Sables in three weeks’ time, Áine Kenny ran in her first ultra marathon, the Tralee 50k, involving five relatively flat loops of 10k, which she completed in a super 4:37:25.

Further afield over the weekend, we had two runners take on the full marathon in Barcelona. Mags Foley was enjoying a decent pace that would have helped her finish close to the 3-hour mark until she turned her ankle after about 16k. After that, it was a game of survival, but she still managed to finish in a highly creditable 3:15:58. On the other hand In her first marathon, ex-elite rower Caoimhe Dempsey enjoyed the experience and also ran extremely well in almost identical splits (9 seconds between the halves!), at a metronomical pace, to record a great time of 3:35:35. Further round the Mediterranean, we had 4 runners take part in the Rome Marathon. Joe and Olwyn Dunne had the distinction of pacing, respectively, the 3:55 and 4:10 runners (apparently, there were pacers for virtually every 5-minute interval), acquitting themselves well by finishing in 3:54:40 and 4:09:23. Conor Parle, one of our London-based exiles, came past Olwyn at one stage and then held on to finish ahead of the pacing group ahead of her, running 3:47:24. Meanwhile, Aitor Arribas Velasco came home in 4:09:23.

Elsewhere around the World, Damien O’Brien, one of our Manhattan-based exiles, ran in the NYC Half marathon on Sunday where, in foggy conditions, he ran a time of 83:15. Raphael Crueyze, now based in France, ran 38:12 in the 10K Foulées de Savigny-sur-Orge near Paris, whilst Valentin Akdim, another of our French exiles, ran in the 55km Trail de Frontfroide in SW France, where he placed 26th in a time of 5:44. In Spain, our exiles in Malaga, Esther Requena Ferri and Cristian Vilchez Ceballos ran in the Carrera Urbana Popular Torre del Mar 10k, with Cristian running 34:28 and Esther placing 2nd in the women’s race in 39:01. Finally, Thom Martini, based in London, ran in the Fleet Half marathon on Sunday which he completed in 1:42.

There were two races in the mountains this weekend with Crusader participation. On Friday night, Gavan Doherty joined a field of 112 in the Crone Maulin 7.4k Night Challenge in Co. Wicklow. On a course with a climb of over 400m, Gavan placed 62nd in 56:55. Then, on Saturday morning, Donatas Jocius and Becky Quinn ran with 62 other runners in the 8.5k race on Askanagap Hill, also in Co. Wicklow, with Donatas placing 5th overall and likely 1st M40 (there being an M40 runner on the podium) in 45:58, with Becky not too far behind in 13th and 2nd in 51:15. The race involved a climb of 522m.

The glorious sunshine brought runners out in droves on Saturday morning for parkruns.

Stephen Hurley led the field of 263 home in Poolbeg in a super time of 16:52, and he was followed by Kenan Furlong in the contingent of Crusaders that was at least 27-strong. Kenan placed 6th in 18:11, and he was followed by Simon Kenny (7th in 18:58), Ronan Walsh (19th in 20:27), Piarais Neary (20th in 20:29), Adrian Groarke (24th in 20:52), James Sherry (25th in 21:02), Kabir Sala (32nd in 22:17), Mark McGovern (44th in 22:50), Jade Murphy (46th and 6th in 22:57), Stephen Mulligan (47th in 23:03), Claire Reidy (48th and 7th in 23:04), Zlatko Kulic (53rd in 23:23), Kevin Lambe (60th in 23:40), Russell Murphy (78th in 24:50), Josie Ward (81st and 17th in 25:05), Bo Chicoine (87th in 25:17), Emily Glen (90th and 23rd in 25:39), Franky Keane (93rd in 25:47), Fiona Bane (103rd and 26th in 26:47), John Corish (107th in 27:05), Ellen Walsh (112th and 30th in 27:21), Tara Murphy (123rd and 36th in 28:09), Lorraine McMahon (138th and 46th in 28:45), Fanny Trébouet (160th and 64th in 29:56), Maureen McGinley (182nd and 82nd in 31:31) and Cynthia Perucca (184th and 84th in 31:40, just behind Maureen.

Dee Lawlor placed 2nd in 18:42 in the 270-strong field of 270 in Shanganagh, whilst Kate Murray took 16th and 2nd places in 24:02 the 150-strong field in Lough Key. Darina Scully joined 121 other runners in River Valley Park, where she placed 27th and 4th in 24:35, whilst Eoghan Corrigan placed 4th in a PB time of 19:20 in Corkagh Park with its field of 248. Chris Bannon joined 23 other runners in Darndale, where he placed 7th in 25:36, whilst Ger Forde placed 16th in 21:41 in the 214-strong field in Naas.

We had parkrunners supporting the Irish rugby team in Rome on Saturday morning, running in 2 parkruns there. Aoife McCarthy ran in the Roma Pineto parkrun with its field of 134, where she placed 22nd and 3rd in 25:09, whilst Kev Moore and Mary Donnelly ran in Caffarella, where Kev placed 19th in 21:27 and Mary placed 28th and also 3rd in 22:36. The field measured 259.

Maria Kennedy tailwalked in Kilkenny with its field of 212, whilst Maria Pertl was our lone runner in Tolka Valley park, where, in a field of 63, she placed 41st and 17th in 32:06. Lisa and Máirín Shine joined 128 other runners on Wexford Racecourse, where Lisa placed 51st and 16th in 28:10 and Máirín placed 62nd and 22nd in 29:10.  Carina Davidson was also a singleton Crusader in Marlay Park, where alongside 583 participants, she placed 571st and 267th in 49:45, whilst, in Malahide, Emer Kenny joined a field of 317, placing 80th and 16th in 24:09. John Lohan ran a time of 22:57 for 16th place in the 119-strong field in Templemore, whilst Emma O’Mahony joined 123 other runners in Enniskillen, where she placed 49th and 12th in 26:36. Mairead Cashman placed 93rd and 32nd in a time of 29:47 in the 243-strong field in Mullingar, whilst, further afield Barry O’Neill ran in Washington State in the USA, where, in a field of 31 in the Rock Creek Trail parkrun, he placed 28th in 50:52. Meanwhile, elsewhere abroad, Toby Benham placed 33rd in 23:14 in Daventry with a field of 326, whilst, Thom Martini ran in the 656-strong field in Gunnersbury, where he placed 100th in 22:55. Finally, Jeanie Watson ran in Highbury Fields, where, in a field of 558, she placed 153rd and 23rd in 23:39.  
 
Sandymount Night Run 5k (2163)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 E. Hughes 1 00:17:44
9 Caroline Crowley 1 00:18:56
Crusaders AC runner
9 Caroline Crowley 00:18:56 (1)
Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/sandymount_nightrun_10km__5km_2025/5551/results
Sandymount Night Run 10k (716)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Louis McCarthy 1 00:34:33
29 Louise Stafford 1 00:42:10
Crusaders AC runners
81 Jill O’Flynn 00:48:01 (10)
128 Niall Collins 00:50:18
188 Eilis Keogh 00:50:13 (43)
230 Maria Kennedy 00:52:42 (55)
Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/sandymount_nightrun_10km__5km_2025/5551/results
Michael Murphy Sports 3k (133)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 John Travers 1 00:08:30
12 Eilish Flanagan 1 09:28
Crusaders AC runner
47 Kathryn Gibbons 00:11:06 (7)
Full results here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555717735585
Tallaght AC 5k (512)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Ben Guiden 1 00:15:09
27 Helena Butterly 1 00:16:54
Crusaders AC runners
39 Orla Walsh 00:17:22 (2)
101 Eddie Nugent 00:19:05
105 Yvonne Macauley 00:19:08 (17)
172 Rebecca Fleming 00:20:42 (41)
182 Neil Brown 00:20:54
256 Chris Bannon 00:23:04
402 Paul E. Kelly 00:27:46
404 Lorraine McMahon 00:27:57 (151)
416 Mairead Cashman 00:28:46 (161)
420 Kelly Brown 00:29:03 (165)
430 Maureen McGinley 00:29:36 (171)
Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/tallaght-ac-5k-2025/
Mullingar Half marathon (1513)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Evan Fitzgerald 1 01:07:28
13 Elizabeth Carr 1 01:16:21
Crusaders AC runners
125 Aaron Farrell 01:25:03
323 Kevin Lambe 01:37:54
356 Triona Quill 01:39:11 (53)
411 Kabir Sala 01:41:58
447 Franky Keane 01:43:39
756 Bo Chicoine 01:53:51
895 Alan Martin 01:57:19 (PB)
Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/aon_mullingar_half_marathon/5191/club-team-results?runnerClass=half%20marathon&type=Club&category=M&categoryType=Category
IMRA Crone Maulin Night Challenge 7.4k (112)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Peter O’Farrell 1 00:39:05
29 Kate Flynn 1 00:50:20
Crusaders AC runner
62 Gavan Doherty 00:56:55
Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2690/category/O/
IMRA Askanagap Hill 8.5k (64)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Zak Hanna 1 00:38:32
12 Caroline Harney 1 00:51:08
Crusaders AC runners
5 Donatas Jocius 00:45:58
13 Becky Quinn 00:51:15 (2)
Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2670
Wexford Racecourse Parkrun (130)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Anthony Dowd 1 00:19:28
9 Annette Moroney 1 00:21:35
Crusaders AC runners
51 Lisa Shine 00:28:10 (16)
62 Máirín Shine 00:29:10 (22)
Kilkenny Parkrun (212)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Robbie McGee 1 00:17:47
16 Emer Doyle 1 00:21:20
Crusaders AC runner
212 Maria Kennedy 00:58:45
Naas Parkrun (214)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Rob O’Brien 1 00:17:38
11 Vikki Brown 1 00:20:11
Crusaders AC runner
16 Ger Forde 00:21:41
Malahide Parkrun (317)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Evan Reid 1 00:16:27
9 Annette Kealy 1 00:18:55
Crusaders AC runner
80 Emer Kenny 00:24:09 (16)
Poolbeg Parkrun (263)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Stephen Hurley 1 00:16:52
12 Ava Rose Clarke 1 00:19:57
Crusaders AC runners
1 Stephen Hurley 00:16:52
6 Kenan Furlong 00:18:11
7 Simon Kenny 00:18:58
19 Ronan Walsh 00:20:27
20 Piarais Neary 00:20:29
24 Adrian Groarke 00:20:52
25 James Sherry 00:21:02
32 Kabir Sala 00:22:17
44 Mark McGovern 00:22:50
46 Jade Murphy 00:22:57 (6)
47 Stephen Mulligan 00:23:03
48 Claire Reidy 00:23:04 (7)
53 Zlatko Kulic 00:23:23
60 Kevin Lambe 00:23:40
78 Russell Murphy 00:24:50
81 Josie Ward 00:25:05 (17)
87 Bo Chicoine 00:25:17
90 Emily Glen 00:25:39 (23)
93 Franky Keane 00:25:47
103 Fiona Bane 00:6:47 (26)
107 John Corish 00:27:05
112 Ellen Walsh 00:27:21 (30)
123 Tara Murphy 00:28:09 (36)
160 Fanny Trébouet 00:29:56 (64)
182 Maureen McGinley 00:31:31 (82)
184 Cynthia Perucca 00:31:40 (84)
Mullingar Parkrun (243)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Karl Fleming 1 0:16:45
10 Melissa Doohan 1 00:21:24
Crusaders AC runner
93 Mairead Cashman 00:29:47 (32)
Corkagh Parkrun (248)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Michael Gouda 1 00:18:51
14 Vanessa Sallier 1 00:22:30
Crusaders AC runner
4 Eoghan Corrigan 00:19:20 (PB)
Darndale Parkrun (24)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Joc O’Connor 1 00:22:00
2 Tricia Gough 1 00:23:17
Crusaders AC runner
7 Chris Bannon 00:25:36
River Valley Parkrun (122)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Viktoras Kuzminas 1 00:19:09
15 Cecile Ollagnier 1 00:23:26
Crusaders AC runner
27 Darina Scully 00:24:35 (4)
Tolka Valley Parkrun (63)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 John McDonnell 1 00:19:51
7 Andrea Van Den Block 1 00:23:26
Crusaders AC runner
41 Maria Pertl 00:32:06 (17)
Marlay Parkrun (584)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Ethan Bramhill 1 00:16:10
14 Anne O’Donovan 2 00:19:38
Crusaders AC runner
571 Carina Davidson 00:49:45 (267)
Shanganagh Parkrun (270)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Luke Brophy 1 00:17:52
25 Kirsten Higgins 1 00:20:59
Crusaders AC runner
2 Derek Lawlor 00:18:42
Enniskillen Parkrun (124)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 John Conor Gildea 1 00:18:43
20 Sarah Arnold 1 00:23:20
Crusaders AC runner
49 Emma O’Mahony 00:26:36 (12)
Lough Key Parkrun (150)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Roy Kelly 1 00:19:33
12 Roisin Farrell 1 00:23:09
Crusaders AC runner
16 Kate Murray 00:24:02 (2)
Templemore Parkrun (119)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Mossy Bracken 1 00:17:02
7 Edwina King 1 00:20:51
Crusaders AC runner
16 John Lohan 00:22:57
Rock Creek Trail Parkrun (31)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Chris McIntosh 1 00:21:36
4 Baorui Jia 1 00:23:15
Crusaders AC runner
28 Barry O’Neill 00:50:52

We had participants in two half marathons on Sunday, one in County Meath, in Bohermeen, and one for the Cru on tour in Lisbon. Each was run in warm and windy conditions and both of them had extremely chaotic starts.

On a weekend when our international athletes did the nation proud in the European Indoor Championships, we can also point to some indoor success among our younger athletes in the National U20 and U23 championships, as well as a master athlete  in the National Masters Indoors, in TUS Athlone.

We medalled in 3 events at U20 level. Having qualified for the 60m final in the 2nd heat in 1st place in a time 6.94, Cillian Doherty placed 2nd in the final in an improved time of 6.82. Then in the straight final of the 60mH Sean Owens took gold in a time of 8.10. Finally, Luke Timlin, who won his heat of the 200m, running in lane 6 in a time of 21.81, went on to take silver in the final from lane 5 in 21.93.

In the U23 competition, Charlie Bastow placed 3rd in heat 3 of the 60m in 7.24, but unfortunately did not proceed further. He also placed 3rd in heat 1 of the 200m, running in lane 5 and finishing in a time of 22:73. However, that time also did not qualify him for the final, as was also the case for Leo Gormley who placed 4th in heat 3 where, running in lane 2, he ran 23.70. Emily Lyne was our lone female competitor in the U23 championships. In the 200m, in lane 3, she placed 2nd in 25.78 to qualify for the final where she placed 4th, also running in lane 3, in 25.58. Emily also qualified for the 400m final, having placed 3rd in 59.20 in heat 1. However, she did not contest the final.

In the same location on Saturday, Enda Clarke added to his medal tally by winning gold in the M40 800m in the National Masters Indoor Championships. Enda ran 2:05.68. He also competed in the 3000m, placing 4th in 10:09.76. Congrats to all.

We had at least 13 Crusaders on tour, taking part in the Lisbon 10k and half marathon races, most of them running in the latter event. They reported that, whilst the race was enjoyable, there was considerable chaos at the start in an event that started at around 11 degrees, getting progressively warmer through the morning. They reported also that the point-to-point event (west to east along the coast) had them running into a headwind, which might have been refreshing for them in some ways. The contingent was led home by Thomas Vogée and Joe McDermott, both of them recording PBs.  Thomas placed 121st in 77:35, with Joe not so far behind in 136th place in 77:58.

They were followed further back by Cría Dowling in 96:43 and Emily Glen in 99:56 and then by David Pepper (1:49:45), Rebecca Kelly (1:51:26), Patricia Velazques (1:57:20), Camilla Henry (1:57:36), Kevin Kenny (1:59:07), Andres Mino (2:02:49) and Fanny Trébouet who has her eyes firmly set on running in the London marathon and was treating this race as a training run (2:03:29). It was great to see one of our London exiles, Hector Jimenez Perez, take part in the 10k, where he ran 54:04, finishing just ahead of Lorraine McMahon who ran 58:15 and behind Mark McGovern who ran 52:19.

Another event that experienced a start like no other, was this year’s edition of the Bohermeen Half. For some reason, the organisers had established a shuttle service from some distance which delivered runners to the race from a location ahead of the start line. The shuttles had to bring the runners to registration and then make their way back through the runners lined up on the start line, in order to collect those who remained. Apparently, a lot of those availing of the service had turned up in good time, but the slowness of the shuttle operation, requiring multiple trips, meant they had to hang around waiting to be taken. This was bad enough, meaning that many of them did not get an adequate warm up, but then for those who got to the start line around 15-20 minutes as one does before the scheduled time of the race, their warm up became premature and although it was not a cold morning (thankfully) at 12 degrees at the start, it was an unsatisfactory preparation for them. There were at least ten shuttle bus drop offs that took place after the scheduled start at 11 am. Given the looped nature of the event, it seems a little surprising that the shuttles could not have gone round the course to the back of the start line to drop people off. Anyway, finally, the race got under way just over 35 minutes late and it was a war of attrition as the temperatures mounted to around 16 degrees for the second half of the two looped race. There were several to drop out. It is normally considered to be a PB course and apart from Michael Wycherley who recorded a nearly 10 minutes PB improvement (his last half marathon PB was nearly 10 years ago) and Kabir Sala with a 7-minute improvement, it would have been hard for many to do really decent times on what is a reasonably flat course. What wind there was, was refreshing when it was a headwind, but the converse when it was behind runners.

Brendan Murphy was well up there throughout the race, but for some reason his chiptime of 76:32 was not recorded and his result not included for team results. Those that did get results were led home by Kevin Fitzgibbon (55th in 76:42), followed by Michael Wycherley with his PB time of 77:44 for 70th spot and 2nd M50. Next came Ciarain Kelly (98th in 78:18), followed by Michael Kiely (138th in 81:37), Gerard White (150th in 82:17) just ahead of Kieran Martin (152nd in 82:19) and Derek Boland, who started out rather far back and was playing catch up during the early stages at least (155th in 81:47). The 6 runners (Kevin, Michael, Ciarain, Gerard, Kieran and Derek) placed 4th as a team in the Rennicks Cup in a competition involving 40 clubs, with the 4 of Kevin, Michael, Ciarain and Gerard placing 6th out of 52 in the open team competition.

Derek was followed by the first of our female runners across the line, Doireann Hughes, who took 187th place overall in a field of 1829 finishers and 7th female finisher in 83:45. Doireann was followed by Luke Clarke (203rd in 84:07) and then by Rory Goldsmith in possibly his last race for the club before he transfers to Bray for logistical reasons (211th in 84:37), Adrienne Jordan (278th overall, 12th female finisher and 1st F45 in 86:51), Eddie Nugent (401st in 89:44), Brian McGuckin (424th in 90:01) and Dee Lawlor (426th in 90:56) who, like several other runners, experienced severe cramping around halfway. For some runners it may have been a hydration issue.

Sean Murphy came in next in 452nd place in a time of 91:08 and he was followed a few minutes later by Kabir Sala (623rd in a 7-minutes PB improvement of 95:44). Kabir was followed by Tim O’Donnell (649th in 97:04) and then by Isabelle Cairns, nursing an injury (764th and 104th in 1:40:26). Louise O’Riordan was almost immediately next, and with Doireann, Adrienne and Isabelle, the 4-women team placed 5th in the 35-strong team competition for both the open result and the Delany Cup.

Louise was followed by Dee Ni Chearbhaill (838th and 122nd in 1:42:06), Laura O’Malley (1039th and 175th in 1:47:24), Mark Browne (1167th in 1:50:47) and James Moran (1419th in 1:58:16 as part of a much longer run). We did have at least one casualty with Alan Martin experiencing difficulty around the half way mark and having to pull out.

There were other road races taking place over the weekend in Ireland and abroad. Chris Bannon took part in the 352-strong field in the Liberties 5k, where he placed 52nd in 24:21. Then, in the Tullamore AC 5k, Brian Regan joined 401 other runners, placing 9th in 16:42. Elsewhere, Djinn von Noorden took part in the Semi-marathon de Paris, where, despite having a fall in the “disco tunnel”, she ran 2:08:00. She was joined by one of our London exiles, Louise Lancaster, who ran 1:41:41. Then, Aoife McCarthy took part in the Richmond half marathon, around Richmond Park in London, which she completed in 1:48:12. Finally, another of our London-based exiles, Kate O’Malley, took part in the Cambridge Half marathon in which she recorded a 2-minute PB improved time of 83:14.

The last two races in the BHAA XC season took place on Saturday morning up at the airport on the playing pitches of ALSAA, with modest fields. We had runners in only one of the events, the men’s 5-miler with a field of 47. Karl Walsh placed 16th and 2nd M45 in 25:25, followed by Neil Brown (28th and 4th M55 in 34:48) and Robbie Moore (32nd and 5th M55 in 35:55).

There were two events organised by IMRA in the mountains this weekend, both taking place on Saturday morning. The results of one of these, the Clonmel Trail half marathon in Co. Tipperary. In the field of 147, on a course with a climb in excess of 815m, Donatas Jocius ran in the race, recording a time of 1:52:14, placing him 12th overall and 2nd in his M40 age category. The other event was the Wicklow Way half marathon with the participation of at least 5 Crusaders. In the field of 304, Richie Phelan placed 63rd in 2:18:05, followed closely by Daniel O’Mahony (66th in 2:19:33). Further back came Tom Gleeson (98th in 2:26:19), with Charles Cartledge (188th in 2:49:01) and Tom’s brother, Daniel (244th in 3:01:17), making up the contingent.

On International Women’s Day on Saturday it was fitting that we had two Crusaders, Ciara Regan and Rebecca Fleming, finishing first females in their respective parkruns.
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Rebecca ran in Naas, where, in a field of 191, she placed 23rd overall and 1st in 22:49, whilst, in Poolbeg, Ciara placed 10th overall and 1st in 19:33. Ahead of Ciara came Stephen Hurley (3rd in 17:48), followed by John Mulvihill (5th in 18:03), with Kenan Furlong a little further back in 6th place in 19:23. Behind Ciara came Richie Phelan’s brother, Marcus (15th in 20:15), followed by Piarais Neary (16th in 20:28). Zlatko Kulic (27th in 21:17) was next, followed by David O’Donnell (31st in 21:37), Maeve Lochrie (37th and 4th in 22:14), John Lohan (40th in 22:23), Pat Quill (47th in 22:06). Claire Reidy came across the line next (54th and 9th in 23:13) alongside her partner Ronan Walsh (55th in 23:14) and they were followed by Aitor Arribas Velasco (64th in 23:39), Kabir Sala (69th in 24:09), Stephen Mulligan (70th in 24:11), Tanja Narancic (78th and 13th in 24:33, pacing 25 minutes runners), John Corish (81st in 25:00), Ellen Walsh (94th and 16th in 25:48), Josie Ward (111th and 24th in 27:05, pacing 27 minutes runners) and Gerard Moore (117th in 27:21). Louise O’Riordan, pacing 30 minutes runners was next, recording a time of 29:29 for 160th and 48th places, and she was accompanied by Frankie Keane (161st in 29:30), followed by Tara Murphy (190th and 69th in 31:21), with Fiona Bane tailwalking.

Further afield, on a trip to Singapore, one of our exiles in Australia, Maurice Kelter, led the field of 111 home in the hot and humid East Coast parkrun in a super time of 16:27.

Darina Scully ran as usual in River Valley Park where she placed 23rd and 3rd in a field of 129 and in a time of 24:39, whilst in Brickfields with its field of 116, Caoimhe Dempsey who is preparing for her first marathon in Barcelona next weekend ran 22:06 for 17th and 3rd places, followed by Mairead Cashman (86th and 27th in 31:02).

Máirín and Lisa Shine ran in Russborough, where, in a field of 81, Máirín placed 40th and 13th in 30:53, followed by Lisa (51st and 22nd in 32:54), whilst Martina White joined 177 other runners in Kilkenny where she placed 88th and 20th in 28:41. Orlaith de Burca placed 102nd and 25th in the 258-strong field in Shanganagh where she recorded a time of 27:36, whilst Brendan Glynn placed 129th in 31:36 in the field of 216 in Donabate and Luke Haran ran in Mungret Park in Limerick where he placed 8th in 22:36.

Just before heading out to Lisbon, Kevin Kenny joined the field of 576 in Marlay Park where he placed 99th in 24:17, and he was followed by Kev Moore (182nd in 26:31), Mary Donnelly (211th and 44th in 27:00) and Carina Davidson (470th and 183rd in 34:55). Meanwhile, in the 231-strong field in Poppintree, Paul F. Kelly placed 66th in 24:57, with Aoife Kelly tailwalking, whilst in St. Anne’s, Sarah Lyons placed 159th and 37th in 26:21. Followed by Áine Crotty (412th and 171st in 37:40) in a field of 448.

Further afield, our London-based exiles, Jeanie Watson, Rob Glascott and Thom Martini ran in parkruns there. Jeanie placed 155th and 25th in the 782-strong field in Finsbury Park, whilst Rob ran on Clapham Common where he placed 29th in 19:53 in a field of 824. Thom ran in Gunnersbury where he placed 76th in 22:32 in a field of 732. They were joined by Georgina Hawkins who ran in Cassiobury Park in Watford where she placed 224th and 40th in a field of 626 and in a time of 26:24. Finally, Aidan Hudner ran once again in Pollok in Glasgow where, in a field of 388, he placed 39th in 23:20.
  
BHAA ALSAA Men’s 5-mile XC (47)
Overall place Name Guntime
1 Sean Doran 00:25:25
Crusaders AC runners
16 Karl Walsh 00:31:59
28 Neil Brown 00:34:48
32 Robbie Moore 00:35:55
Full results here: https://irp.cdn-website.com/15e8030f/files/uploaded/Race_Master_Alsaa_2m_and_5m_2025.pdf
Bohermeen Half marathon (1829)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Michael Fox 1 01:07:23
53 Nicola Sheridan 1 01:16:30
Crusaders AC runners
XX Brendan Murphy 01:16:32
55 Kevin Fitzgibbon 01:16:42
70 Michael Wycherley 01:17:44 (PB)
98 Ciarain Kelly 01:18:46
138 Michael Kiely 01:21:37
150 Gerard White 01:22:17
152 Kieran Martin 01:22:19
155 Derek Boland 01:21:47
187 Doireann Hughes 01:23:45 (7)
203 Luke Clarke 01:24:07
211 Rory Goldsmith 01:24:37
278 Adrienne Jordan 01:26:51 (12)
401 Eddie Nugent 01:29:44
424 Brian McGuckin 01:30:01
426 Derek Lawlor 01:30:56
452 Sean Murphy 01:31:08
623 Kabir Sala 01:35:44 (PB)
649 Tim O’Donnell 01:37:04
764 Isabelle Cairns 01:40:26 (104)
766 Louise O’Riordan 01:41:54 (121)
838 Deirdre Ni Chearbhaill 01:42:06 (122)
1039 Laura O’Malley 01:47:24 (175)
1167 Mark Browne 01:50:47
1419 James Moran 01:58:16
Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/bohermeen_ac_half_marathon/5540/results
Liberties 5k (352)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 James Kelly 1 00:17:49
18 Alison Shorten 1 00:22:08
Crusaders AC runner
52 Chris Bannon 00:24:21
Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/the_liberties_rc_5k_2025/5602/results
Tullamore Harriers AC 5k (402)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Jamie Battle 1 00:14:48
5 Cheryl Nolan 1 00:16:16
Crusaders AC runner
9 Brian Regan 00:16:42
Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/tullamore-harriers-ac-5k-2025/
IMRA Wicklow Way Half (304)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Adam Cunningham 1 01:45:13
12 Áine Gosling 1 01:58:25
Crusaders AC runners
63 Richard Phelan 02:18:05
66 Daniel O’Mahony 02:19:33
98 Tom Gleeson 02:26:19
188 Charles Cartledge 02:49:01
244 Daniel Gleeson 03:01:17
Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2686/category/O/
IMRA Clonmel Trail Half Marathon (147)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 John Kinsella 1 01:37:14
13 Kealey Tideswell 1 01:52:18
Crusaders AC runner
12 Donatas Jocius 01:52:14
Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2640/category/O/
Russborough Parkrun (81)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Caolan McGorman 1 00:20:03
11 Niamh Craul 1 00:25:29
Crusaders AC runners
40 Máirín Shine 00:30:53 (13)
51 Lisa Shine 00:32:54 (22)
Kilkenny Parkrun (178)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Ruairidh Livingstone 1 00:18:21
3 Breda McDonald 1 00:19:36
Crusaders AC runner
88 Martina White 00:28:41 (20)
Naas Parkrun (191)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Dave Courtney 1 00:17:55
23 Rebecca Fleming 1 00:22:49
Crusaders AC runner
23 Rebecca Fleming 00:22:49 (1)
Mungret Parkrun (84)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Barry Crowe 1 00:18:56
3 Alison Donnelly 1 00:21:20
Crusaders AC runner
8 Luke Haran 00:22:36
Poolbeg Parkrun (238)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Christopher O’Reilly 1 00:16:44
10 Ciara Regan 1 00:19:33
Crusaders AC runners
3 Stephen Hurley 00:17:48
5 John Mulvihill 00:18:03
6 Kenan Furlong 00:19:23
10 Ciara Regan 00:19:33 (1)
15 Marcus Phelan 00:20:15
16 Piarais Neary 00:20:28
27 Zlatko Kulic 00:21:17
31 David O’Donnell 00:21:37
37 Maeve Lochrie 00:22:14 (4)
40 John Lohan 00:22:23
47 Pat Quill 00:22:06
54 Claire Reidy 00:23:13 (9)
55 Ronan Walsh 00:23:14
64 Aitor Arribas Velasco 00:23:39
69 Kabir Sala 00:24:09
70 Stephen Mulligan 00:24:11
78 Tanja Narancic 00:24:33 (13)
81 John Corish 00:25:00
94 Ellen Walsh 00:25:48 (16)
111 Josie Ward 00:27:05 (24)
117 Gerard Moore 00:27:21
160 Louise O’Riordan 00:29:29 (48)
161 Franky Keane 00:29:30
190 Tara Murphy 00:31:21 (69)
238 Fiona Bane 00:54:50
Brickfields Parkrun (116)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Maxim Bondarenko 1 00:18:26
12 Roisin McMahon 1 00:21:45
Crusaders AC runners
17 Caoimhe Dempsey 00:22:06 (3)
86 Mairead Cashman 00:31:02 (27)
Poppintree Parkrun (231)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 David Branock 1 00:17:35
9 Marie Howard 1 00:19:22
Crusaders AC runners
66 Paul F. Kelly 00:24:57
251 Aoife Kelly 00:51:59
St. Anne’s Parkrun (448)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Robert Lea 1 00:17:14
24 Caoimhe Duffy 1 00:20:53
Crusaders AC runners
159 Sarah Lyons 00:26:21 (37)
412 Áine Crotty 00:37:40 (171)
River Valley Parkrun (129)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Viktoras Kuzminas 1 00:19:26
15 Cecile Ollagnier 1 00:22:48
Crusaders AC runner
23 Darina Scully 00:24:39 (3)
Donabate Parkrun (216)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Seamus Walsh 1 00:19:13
6 Niamh Coughlan 1 00:20:59
Crusaders AC runner
129 Brendan Glynn 00:31:36
Marlay Parkrun (576)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 August Benedicto 1 00:17:48
23 Catriona Dowling 1 00:21:03
Crusaders AC runners
99 Kevin Kenny 00:24:17
182 Kev Moore 00:26:31
211 Mary Donnelly 00:27:00 (44)
470 Carina Davidson 00:34:55 (183)
Shanganagh Parkrun (258)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Neill Foley 1 00:17:39
25 Lara Woods 1 00:21:47
Crusaders AC runner
102 Orlaith de Burca 00:27:36 (25)