Monday, November 7, 2011

Meath Secondary Schools T&F Championships 2011

Best Girl’s School : The Fagan Cup: Scoil Mhuire, Trim

Best Boy’s School : Presented by Meath AAI : St. Peter’s College, Dunboyne

Meath Running League Awards

unior Men 1st Conor Daniel Trim AC

Senior Ladies 1st Chantelle Farrelly Tara AC


Senior Men 1st Neville Reilly Dunboyne AC
2nd Robert Caffery St. Brigid’s AC
3rd Ciaran O’Dwyer Dunshaughlin AC

Masters ladies:W40 1st Imelda Clarke Na Fianna AC
2nd Linda Fahy Dunshaughlin AC
3rd Ursula Byrne Dunshaughlin AC

W45 1st Ann Hunter Dunshaughlin AC
2nd Maureen Getty St. Brigid’s AC
3rd Margaret Neary Na Fianna AC

W50 1st Linda Gunning Bohermeen AC


W60 1st Rose Healy Fr. Murphy AC



Masters Men M40 1st Don Mahon Trim AC
2nd Dermot Farrelly Bohermeen AC
3rd John Clarke Na Fianna AC

M45 1st David O’Connell Bohermeen AC
2nd Aidan Swan Dunshaughlin AC
3rd Derek Hunter Dunshaughlin AC

M50 1st Paddy Mangan Dunshaughlin AC
2nd Benny Byrne Dunshaughlin AC
3rd Declan Byrne South O’Hanlon AC


M60 1st Michael Hegarty South O’Hanlon AC


Overall Winners of the League:
Ladies: Imelda Clarke Na Fianna AC
Men: Neville Reilly Dunboyne AC


Complimentary Ticket for the Awards Night to those that completed 13of 13 races:
Philip Cogavin Fr. Murphy AC
Luke Mulligan Dunshaughlin AC

Meath Running League Awards

unior Men 1st Conor Daniel Trim AC

Senior Ladies 1st Chantelle Farrelly Tara AC


Senior Men 1st Neville Reilly Dunboyne AC
2nd Robert Caffery St. Brigid’s AC
3rd Ciaran O’Dwyer Dunshaughlin AC

Masters ladies:W40 1st Imelda Clarke Na Fianna AC
2nd Linda Fahy Dunshaughlin AC
3rd Ursula Byrne Dunshaughlin AC

W45 1st Ann Hunter Dunshaughlin AC
2nd Maureen Getty St. Brigid’s AC
3rd Margaret Neary Na Fianna AC

W50 1st Linda Gunning Bohermeen AC


W60 1st Rose Healy Fr. Murphy AC



Masters Men M40 1st Don Mahon Trim AC
2nd Dermot Farrelly Bohermeen AC
3rd John Clarke Na Fianna AC

M45 1st David O’Connell Bohermeen AC
2nd Aidan Swan Dunshaughlin AC
3rd Derek Hunter Dunshaughlin AC

M50 1st Paddy Mangan Dunshaughlin AC
2nd Benny Byrne Dunshaughlin AC
3rd Declan Byrne South O’Hanlon AC


M60 1st Michael Hegarty South O’Hanlon AC


Overall Winners of the League:
Ladies: Imelda Clarke Na Fianna AC
Men: Neville Reilly Dunboyne AC


Complimentary Ticket for the Awards Night to those that completed 13of 13 races:
Philip Cogavin Fr. Murphy AC
Luke Mulligan Dunshaughlin AC

County cups 2011

The Heffernan Cup: Girls U9 Team: Na Fianna AC

Na Fianna Cup: Boys U9 Team : Dunboyne AC

Na Fianna Cup: Girls U11 Team: Na Fianna AC

Rod and Gun Perpetual Cup: Boys U12 team: St. Brigids AC

D. O’Brien Cup: Girls U14 Team: Dunboyne AC

The Dan Bagnall Cup: Novice Men: Dunboyne AC

The Betty & Frank McDonnell Cup: Intermediate Team: Dunboyne AC

The St. Brigid’s Cup: 5 Mile Road Championships Men : Bohermeen AC

The Mattie McGrath Memorial Trophy: 3k Track Team (men): Dunboyne AC

The Joe Kenny Cup: 3k Track Team (ladies): Dunshaughlin AC

Bank of Ireland Trophy: Senior Ladies:

The Regan Mc Entee Cup: Senior Ladies: Dunshaughlin AC

The Larry Daly Cup: Senior Men Team: Bohermeen AC

Category awards Meath 20011

Cross Country & Road Awards:

U11-13 Girls Eva O’Donovan Navan AC
Boys Alan Monaghan Bohermeen

U14-16 Girls Deirdre Healy Ratoath AC
Boys Andrew Coscoran Star of the Sea AC


U17-19 Girls Rachel Neary Na Fianna AC
Boys Thomas Moran Dunshaughlin AC

Junior Ladies Shauna Moore Dunshaughlin AC
Men Luke Forde Dunboyne AC



Senior Ladies Sara Louise Treacy Moynalvey-Kilcloone AC
Men Rory McDonnell Dunboyne AC


Masters Ladies Mary Watters Navan AC
Men Tommy Maher Dunshaughlin AC


Track & Field Awards:

U11-13 Track Girls Shannon Sheehy Cushinstown AC
Boys Shane Hanley St. Brigid’s AC )
Jack Hilliard Bohermeen AC ) Joint Winners

Field Girls Zoe Mohan Cushinstown AC
Boys Ciaran Morgan Bohermeen AC

U14-16 Track Girls Rose Finnegan Bohermeen AC
Boys Aaron Kealy Dunshaughlin AC

Field Girls Elizabeth Moreland Cushinstown AC
Boys Keith Marks Cushinstown AC


U17-19 Track Girls Alison Daly Na Fianna AC
Boys Eamon Wallace Ratoath AC

Field Girls Niamh Lister Navan AC
Boys Shane Aston Trim AC

Junior Track Ladies Shauna Moran Dunshaughlin AC
Men Conor Doran Cushinstown AC )
Rob Tully Star of the Sea AC ) Joint Winners

Junior Field Ladies Grainne Miggin Fr. Murphy AC
Men Conal Campion St. Andrew’s AC

Senior Track Ladies Sharon Monaghan Fr. Murphy AC
Men Darragh Rennicks Bohermeen AC


Senior Field Ladies Michelle Pilkington Dunboyne AC
Men Kourosh Foroughi Star of the Sea AC )
Padraig White Dunboyne AC ) Joint Winners

Masters Track Ladies Moira Peppard Trim AC
Men Colm Keogh Ratoath AC

Masters Field Ladies Moira Aston Trim AC
Men Paddy Hanily Fr. Murphy AC

National / World Records / Championship Best Performance: none

Participated at a Major International Championship:

Sara Louise Treacy: European U23 Cross Country Championships at Albufeira, Portugal 12th December 2010 & European U23 Track & Field Championships at Ostrava, Czech Republic 14-17 July 2011.

Padraig White: European Team Championships at Izmir, Turkey 18-19 June 2011.

Michael Doyle: World University Games at Shenzhen, China 12-23 August 2011.

Kourosh Foroughi: European Team Championships at Izmir, Turkey 18-19 June 2011, European U23 Track & Field Championships at Ostrava, Czech Republic 14-17 July 2011 & World University Games at Shenzhen, China 12-23 August 2011.

National medal winners awards

All underage athletes who won medals at National Championships were presented with plaques noting their achievement at the Meath Athletics awards night at the Darnley Hotel, Athboy on Sunday 6 November 2011.


Sarah Clarke Na Fianna AC
Amy Clarke Na Fianna AC
Zoe Mohan Cushinstown AC
Eva O’Donovan Navan AC

Ciaran Morgan Bohermeen AC
Rian Kealy Dunshaughlin AC
Alan Monaghan Bohermeen AC
Eoin Smyth Tara AC
Shane Hanly St. Brigid’s AC

Sinead Reynolds Cushinstown AC
Shannon Sheehy Cushinstown AC
Elizabeth Moreland Cushinstown AC
Rose Finnegan Bohermeen AC

Nathan Grant Trim AC
Shane Joyce Cushinstown AC
Jordan Leech Cushinstown AC
Keith Marks Cushinstown AC
Darragh Costigan Dunboyne AC

Niamh Hetherington Dunshaughlin AC
Deirdre Healy Ratoath AC
Andrew Coscoran Star of the Sea AC
Brian McGrath Bohermeen AC

Kelly Brady Bohermeen AC
Ewen McCabe Navan AC
Karen Blaney Navan AC
Matthew Connolly St. Andrew’s AC

Oisin Foley Dunshaughlin AC
Michael Hanlon Dunboyne AC
John Sweeney St. Andrew’s AC
Rob Tully Star of the Sea AC

Eamon Wallace Ratoath AC
Christopher Higgins Na Fianna AC
Jamie Murtagh St. Andrew’s AC


Caimin Dunne Dunboyne AC
Shane Aston Trim AC
James McCabe Dunboyne AC

Alison Daly Na Fianna AC
Shauna Moran Dunshaughlin AC
Shauna Moore Dunshaughlin AC
Karen Dunne Bohermeen

Thursday, November 3, 2011

1 2 in Leinster novice

The Leinster novice,masters and even ages cross country took place on Sunday at Belvedere House , Mullingar. The superb parkland course held up very well to the recent heavy rainfall and was a good test for the two thousand athletes who took part in ten races.

Meath athletes performed very well in most of the categories. The most impressive performances of the day were in the mens novice race where Darragh Rennicks ,Bohermeen and Luke Forde, Dunboyne took control of the race when they emerged from a group of six frontrunners with two kilometres to go. They opened up a sizeable gap and delighted the Meath supporters with a powerful display of confident running . In the last five hundred metres the young Bohermeen runners struck for home to score an impressive victory ahead of this years revelation, Luke Forde. The county team of Rennicks, Forde, Neville Reilly , Dunboyne, Loughlin Campion, St Andrews, Robert Caffrey, St Brigids,Rory Kavanagh, Dunboyne got a total of 44 points to take the silver behind Dublin.

There was the usual strong display form the Meath womens masters team in the race for inter county honours. The ever improving Emeilia Dan from Dunboyne turned in a great performance to lead the county team home. When the final results are announced by Athletics Leinster it seems likely that the Dunshaughlin team of Linda Fahy, Ursula Byrne, Ann Hunter and the Na Fianna team of Imelda Clarke, Bridget Clarke, Maggie Higgins will be among the medal winning clubs.

The masters mens race saw strong performances once again by the irrepressible Dunshaughlin squad of Tommy Maher, Paddy Mangan, Shane Boyle, Derek Hunter, Benny Byrne and Paul O’Rourke turning in a great effort to secure second club team. The county M50 team finished second and was led home by Paddy Mangan.

In the juvenile races Shane Hanley, St Brigids continues to be the leading cross country runner of his age group by adding the under 12 title to the under 11 honour from last season. He led the impressive county team to provincial victory with three top ten finishers. Eoin Smith, was fourth and Kevin McGrath, Bohermeen. The Tara team of Smith, James Finnerty, Cormac O Dowd and Sean Byrne were an impressive second in the club category.

The boys under 16 team of Conor Rennicks, Bohermeen, 3rd, Andrew Coscoran,Star of the Sea, 4th, Gavin Maher, Dunshaughlin, 7th, Brian McGrath, Bohermeen, 10th, Niall Cornyn, Dunboyne,18th and Ben Clarke, Na Fianna,30th ran very well to finish second to Westmeath in the inter county category.

Na Fianna AC had some great performances from its quartet of Amy Clarke,2nd Sarah Clarke,7th, Emma Neary, 27th and Aideen Slattery,35th running well to get under 12 club silver and were joined by Annie Kavanagh Bohermeen and Hanna Gilligan, Trim in the county team which also earned a silver medal position.

Navan athletes Eva O Donovan and Ciara Rooney put in performances which will see them turning out for Leinster in the All Ireland even ages competition next month in Sligo.

The team manager Gerard Heery was very pleased with the turnout of Meath runners in most of the ten races and is hoping for a similar response from all clubs and their members at the uneven age and intermediate event at Adamstown, Co Wexford on Sunday 13 October.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Level one in Navan

There is a Level 1 being held in Navan on Friday 4th /Saturday 5th and Friday 18th/Saturday 19th November and that the course can be applied for on line and the link is https://events.athleticsireland.ie/ps/event/listings?view=OTHER .


A number of club delegates indicated strong interest in this at the October meeting of the county board. HOWEVER the take up from within the county has not matched expectations. Clubs are requested to confirm their participants immediately.

Trim marathoners

Trim Athletic Club will be well represented at The 2011 Dublin City Marathon which starts from Fitzwilliam Street at 9.45 am next Monday morning. Among those taking part from the club will be Sean Murphy, Maureen Lowther, Evelyn Ferguson, John Doyle, Don Mahon, Joe McNamara, Brian Cully and John Ferry.

NEW DATE FOR AWARDS

The Meath Athletics Board annual awards evening at the Old Darnley Hotel, Athboy has been brought forward by one week to Sunday 6th November.
This change has been made to facilitate the many athletes from the county who will be attending the Leinster inter and uneven ages cross country in Co. Wexford on the original date(15 Nov)