Message from Athletics Leinster

Hi everyone,

 

On behalf of Athletics Leinster, I wish to thank Sean Kinnane, Tommy McDonnell and their team for all their work in setting up today's excellent Cross Country Course.

 

I would also like to thank all the athletes, parent and coaches who travelled from all over the Province and all those who helped in any way to make today a success.

 

Congratulation to all the medal winners & best of luck in the All-Irelands.

 

Please see the below link to the Precision Timing website for Provisional Juvenile & Intermediate, Individual & Club Results from today:

 

http://www.precisiontiming.net/result/racetimer?v=%252Fen%252Frace%252Fshow%252F1064%253Flayout%253Dprecision_timing

 

Furthermore, please see the below link to the Athletics Leinster website, where you will find a separate link to the Provisional Juvenile & Intermediate County Results from today:

 

http://www.athleticsleinster.com/

 

ALL QUERIES TO FRANK KILRANE - ATHLETICS LEINSTER CROSS COUNTRY & ROAD RACE SECRETARY - Email: afkilrane@gmail.com 

 

Finally, all requests for additional subs medals are to be made to Frank Kilrane within 2 weeks - i.e. by the 25-11-2012 - thanks.

 

Yours in Sport,

 

Martin J Heery

Leinster Secretary

Meath runners keep it local in Leinsters.

The second day of the Leinster cross country championships was staged at
Dunboyne on Sunday. There were a number of individual, club and county medal
winning performances by Meath athletes. There was an added invcentive for
club and county teams in this event as the first four teams in each category
goes forward to the national championships which will take place at
Adamstown Co Wexford on Sun. 9 December.

In the first race of the day Shane Smyth from Tara Athletic Club put in a
great run to take silver in the boys under 11 race and lead his club team of
Jake cullen, Niall Finnerty and John Cullen to an excellent thrid place in
the inter clubs. The girls under 13 race featured some very strong
individual performance by Meath runners with vicory going to Amy Clarke, Na
Fianna ahead of local Dunboyne athlete Nicola Duffy with Sarah Clarke
(cousin of the winner) occupying forth spot. The Na Fianna club team
finished second in the club competition with Emma Neary and Sara Daly making
up the squad. These girls combined with Petra Reilly to get the bronze for
Meath in the inter counties
Alan Monaghan put in a very impressive run to add the Leinster under 15
title to the under 14 title which he took recently in Rathdrum. He led a
very strong county squad to victory in the inter county competition with
club mate Kevin McGrath,10th, Eoin Smyth,12th, Paddy Maher,14th,Alex
Hunter,16th,Philip Marron,27th.

The county also won the under 17 inter counties with Andrew Coscoran putiing
in another strong race to finish second overall, ahead of Conor Rennicks.
the other scoring memebrs of the team were Ciaran Bowers,6th,Jack
McGowan,12th,Gavin Maher,20th, Niall Cornyn,27th. In the girls under 19 race Ciara Rooney added the under 19 bronze to the under 18 bronze she earned on the hills and glens of Avondale House recently.

In the adult races the best team performance came from the womens team who
finsished third with Karen Lavelle,7th, Emilia Dan,10th, Linda Fahy,19th,
Ursula Byrne,20th. There was great local support for Luke Forde from
Dunboyne AC who put in a very spirited display to get into the silver medal
spot in the mens intermediate behind Tullamore Harrier, Liam Brady.
The results from Dunboyne and the first days events at Rathdrum auger well
for the prospects of local athletes and some of the teams as they prepare
for the nationals. The county plays host to the AAI Woodies even ages and
inter county senior cross country championships at the very apt venue of
Tattersalls, Ratoath on Sunday 25 November.

Mens intermediate team

The following runners are selected to represent Meath at the Leinster intermediate CC in Dunboyne on Sunday 11 Nov 2012

Luke Forde
Loughlin Campion
Morgan McDonagh
Ciaran O’Dwyer
Rory Kavanagh
Phelim Glynn
Derek Hunter
Mark Leacy
Ramunas Meskauskas
Damian Hillard
Gerry O' Reilly
Thomas O’Reilly
Patrick Stratford
Ciaran McKenna
Dermot Farrelly

Womens Intermediate team

The following runners are selected for the Meath womens intemediate squad to contest the Leinster CC at Dunboyne on Sunday 11 Nov. 2012

Sonia Reilly
Imelda Clarke
Ann Hunter
Maureen Getty
Durenda McGee
Linda Fahy
Ursula Byrne
Maggie Higgins
Brigid Clarke
Imelia Dan
Karen clare Keegan
Deirdre Fitizsimons
Margaret Neary
Sharon Monaghan
Karen Lavelle

MLSP SURVEY REQUEST

 Meath is one of three LSPs in Ireland selected to pilot the process that will underpin development of the Irish Sports Council’s new performance evaluation template for LSPs.

This is an important element of the process via which LSPs will be managed and supported moving forward and Knight, Kavanagh & Page – KKP  (a specialist sport and leisure management consultancy) is supporting the Irish Sports Council with this process.

Part of this necessitates capturing partners’ and stakeholders’ views with regard to their rating of various aspects of the Partnership’s work and operation. The survey, which should take you no longer than five minutes to complete, is designed to allow you to do this.

We would be very grateful if you would fill it in being as objective as possible: we also realise that you may not be in a position to respond to some of the questions so there is a ‘not applicable’ (N/A) option for each one. We would, however, ask you to provide your view in/for as many of the categories as you can.

The link below takes you straight to KKP’s website so individual responses will neither be revealed to nor discussed with colleagues and staff at the LSP.

The closing time/date for responses is 11.00 (am) on Wednesday 14 November but we would encourage you to complete it as soon as possible to ensure that the response rate for our Partnership is as high as possible.

http://www.kkp.co.uk/surveys/isc/meath.htm

Irish Runner Yearbook needs info from your club

Folks -
Yes it's that time of year again!
Have started compiling the 2013 fixture list for the Irish Runner 
Annual and aiming to make it as comprehensive as possible.
So if you have your dates fixed, please send them on.
Looking forward to being inundated!

Lindie

New Meath Athletics website

A new website has been set up for Meath Athletics Board. Please send your club details news , reports etc...to meathathletics@hotmail.com for inclusion.

WEBSITE HERE  www.meathathletics.ie
  

 

7.45pm START

 

To All Clubs,

 

I would like clubs to come at 7.45pm to a meeting this Wednesday 7th November to discuss the forthcoming Inter Counties Cross Country in Tattersalls before we start the normal county board meeting at 8.30pm. The National Senior Inter Counties & Even age juvenile Cross Country Championships, probably the most prestigious event on the cross country calendar, will take place in Tattersalls on November 25th. 

 

Regards,

 

Brendan Meade

 

Very active week at Dunboyne AC

November 4th  Meet and Train- DunboyneDespite wet weather conditions on Sunday, women came in number to Meet and Train in Dunboyne.
Congratulation to Claire Keegan, Deidre Fitzsimon and Hajnalka Peterfi for their great run.
Tea and cakes were served in the club house and much appreciated.  

October 29th - Dublin City Marathon

Well done to all our Athletes who competed in the Dublin City Marathon. Nice running conditions combined with all the hard training over the past year produced some excellent times.

First home from the club was Fintan Crehan in a great time of 3.12, well done Fintan. Antoinette Howlin in her second marathon ran an excellent PB in 3.21, 16 mins quicker than last year. Antoinette looked very comfortable throughout and a sub 3.15 is on the cards for next year. Stephen Doyle ran a steady 3.30 and was followed home by Mick Foy, Scott Willoughby and Claire  Ni Fhaircheallaigh. Mick paced Scott to a 3.32 PB which was a minute a mile faster than last year - great run Scott you can pace Mick to a sub 3.15 next year. Claire's 3.32 was also a huge performance for someone who is not in the club very long, well done Claire.  Pauline Hilliard ran a steady 3.44, well done Pauline. Alongside Pauline, both Roisin Bell and Martin Geogheganalso ran 3.44 - ready for sub 3.30 next year guys.

Anne Gorman ran a PB in 4.02 and took 44 minutes off last year’s time. Sub 4 next year Anne. Siobhan Carey had an excellent debut, recording 4.08 – sub 4 for you as well next year Siobhan.  Joanne O'Sullivan ran 4.12, 3 minutes up on last year, well done Joanne.  Sinead Thompson had a very strong marathon debut, coming in at 4.16. Ray Mitchell was 12 minutes up on last year in a time of 4.17. Deirdre Mangan and Roisin Whitty accompanied each other throughout and across the line in an excellent debut time of 4.35 – well done girls. John Holian ran this year despite having completed only a limited amount of training. John managed to get over the finish in one piece in a time of 4.37. Seamus Dunne kept up his record of running every Dublin City Marathon:  this year as in last year’s race Seamus ran with Andy Taylor in a time of 5 hours.

Perhaps the most impressive performance of all came from John Cotter who recorded 6.31, giving him 3^rd place in his category – over 75’s. Congratulations John!

Hard luck to all who failed to make the start line through illness or injury: Alan, Aoiffe, Paul, Michael, Sean, Michelle, Geraldine, Rosemary, Eileen, Joe and Noel - keep the fitness up guys.

Annual Awards Night

To All Clubs

 

The Meath AAI Annual Awards is on Sunday November 18th at 6pm in the Old Darnley Lodge Hotel, Athboy. I have sent the list to a few selected names in each club who can then notify the parents of recipients or recipients (adults) and hopefully the surprise of winning a category can be kept until the evening in question. However if you feel that I should send the list out to all on my email list that can be done at the touch of a button. Tickets for the Awards are the same price as last year €25 for adults and older juveniles and €10 for those juveniles on nuggets & chips or the half portion. Could clubs have some idea of how many might be going for the next county board meeting on Wednesday 7th November.

 

Regards,

 BRENDAN MEADE

The Awards Committee,

 

 Maggie Higgins, Moira Aston, Philip Cogavin, Paddy Joyce and Stephen Ball.