2025 Adult Achievements

13/12/2025

January

Luke Timlin selected to be in the 2025 U20 4x100m squad.

Co. Dublin intermediate XC championships (Raheny):
Bronze individual: Saoirse McGrath
Silver women’s team: Saoirse McGrath, Orla Walsh, Kathryn Gibbons, Annie Hughes

Co. Dublin masters XC championships (Raheny):
F35 individual gold: Caroline Crowley
F35 individual silver: Julie McGrath
O/35 women’s silver: Caroline Crowley, Julie McGrath, Aoife Quigley, Yvonne Macauley

February

National 50k Championships (Donadea):

F50 Gold: Olwyn Dunne

March

National 10k road Championships (Dunboyne):

F45 bronze: Adrienne Jordan

National Senior Indoors:

Luke Timlin bronze 200m

National U20 Indoors:

Cillian Doherty silver 60m
Sean Owens gold 60mH
Luke Timlin silver 200m

National Masters Indoors:

M55 gold 400m: John O’Loughlin

Leinster U20 Indoors:

Cillian Doherty gold 60m (CR)
Luke Timlin bronze 60m

Leinster Senior Indoors:

Women’s 4x200m relay silver: Irantzu Garate Muro, Eva Griffin, Juliette McCloskey, Nguilulu Rachel Messa

Leinster Master Indoors:

M40 gold 800m: Enda Clarke

April

Leinster 10k road Championships (Raheny):

F35 gold: Yvonne Macauley
F35 bronze: Emily Glen
F40 silver: Aoife Quigley
F40 bronze: Nina Holmes
F55 bronze: Olwyn Dunne

Club senior women’s team silver: Yvonne Macauley, Aoife Quigley, Nina Holmes
County men’s senior team gold: Stephen Hurley
County women’s senior team gold: Yvonne Macauley, Aoife Quigley
County women’s O/35 team gold: Nina Holmes
County women’s O/50 team gold: Olwyn Dunne

Dublin senior track championships (graded meet 1 in Santry):

Long jump bronze: Juliette McCloskey
3,000m gold: Emily Sheils

Dublin senior track championships (graded meet 2 in Santry):

200m bronze Emily Lyne

May

National 5k road Championships (Phoenix Park):

F45 gold: Adrienne Jordan

June

Cillian Doherty and Sean Owens selected for U20 squad in Mannheim

July

National U20/U23 track and field championships (Tullamore):

U20 men’s 110mH gold: Sean Owens
U20 men’s 200m silver: Luke Timlin
U23 women’s 400mH bronze: Emily Lyne

National 10-mile road Championships (Phoenix Park):

F40 bronze: Aoife Quigley
O/35 women’s team bronze: Aoife Quigley, Orla O’Flynn, Sharon Woods

National Masters Track and Field Championships (Tullamore):

M60 100m bronze: Paul Francis
F45 200m bronze: Tessa O’Neill
F45 400m silver: Tessa O’Neill
M40 800m gold: Enda Clarke
F45 Hammer gold: Karen Conway

Luke Timlin and Cillian Doherty (non-travelling reserve) selected for the European U20 relay squad competing in Finland.

August

County Dublin 10-mile road Championships:

F35 bronze: Louise Dobbyn
F45 bronze: Tara Gavin
F55 silver: Orla O’Flynn
M70 2nd: Martin Joyce (no medal)
Senior women’s team silver: Ciara Lynch, Tara Gavin, Louise Dobbyn, Cría Dowling
O/50 women’s team silver: Sharon Woods, Orla O’Flynn, Olwyn Dunne

World Transplant Games (Dresden):

M40-49 5k gold: Ivan Kinehan

National and Leinster Half Marathon Championships (Tullamore):

Leinster Senior women silver: Sarah-Grace Breen
Women’s Senior County gold: (Dublin) Sarah-Grace Breen
Women’s O/50 County gold: (Dublin) Triona Quill

September

County Dublin Half marathon road Championships (Phoenix Park):

F35 bronze: Louise Dobbyn
F55 bronze: Olwyn Dunne
Senior men’s bronze: Conor Kilkenny

County Dublin 5k road Championships (Rathfarnham):

F35 silver: Yvonne Macauley
M40 bronze: Brian O’Kelly
F40 bronze: Margaret Foley
O/35 men’s team gold: Brian O’Kelly, Kevin Fizgibbon, John Mulvihill, Enda Clarke
O/35 women’s team bronze: Yvonne Macauley, Margaret Foley, Miriam Logan, Anna Brown

European Masters Athletics Championships (Madeira):

Gary Park achieves new Irish M50 3000m S/C record of 11:32.07

October

National, Leinster and Dublin Marathon Championships

F55 bronze (Dublin): Triona Quill
Leinster senior women’s team bronze: Sarah-Grace Breen, Ciara Regan, Ciara Lynch
Co. Dublin senior women’s team bronze: Sarah-Grace Breen, Ciara Regan, Ciara Lynch

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