Leevale’s Mark Carroll will hardly be pleased with his eight place finish in the big Prefontaine Oregon meet today where he clocked 13:32.28.  The season has a long way to run though.  Sinead Delahunty was also outside the world championships qualifying mark with her 6th place finish in the 1,500m (4:11.04).  Big news at [...]

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Once again the Nestle Munster schools track and field championships, held at the CIT track today, produced another day of superb action by a host of outstanding young athletes.  The dry settled weather came to a close during the afternoon, drenching officials and athletes alike.  Old records took a hammering during a day of high [...]

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  The first race in the Nike Ballycotton summer series of road races was held in Ballyandreen tonight, once again attracting some 200 competitors.  As always William Harty from KCK set a strong pace from the gun, going right clear before the mile mark.  He was, however, caught by Leevale’s Martin McCarthy, making a return [...]

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  The first stage of the Cork juvenile track and field championships were held in glorious sunshine at the CIT track on Sunday.  There was a tremendous turn out for most of the events, especially the younger ages.  Performances were of a very high level, making it very difficult to single out any one performance.  [...]

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  Mark Carroll of Leevale opened his track season at the Boston High Performance meet today, held in cold and windy conditions.  Usually at this time of year Carroll has a couple of races under his belt, but, due to a couple of niggling injuries, he did not get to race until the weekend.  Choosing [...]

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The American collegiate athletics year is fast drawing to a close, with many of the Irish scholarship athletes now finished with competition.  At the Southland Conference, Leevale’s Jason Foolkes was 4th in the 10k (32:18.17) and William Morris was 11in the 1,500m (4:05.27).  At the Sun Belt Conference, East Cork’s Lisa Cronin completed her season [...]

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The second day of the Evening Echo South Munster schools track and field championships were held at the CIT track today, with ideal weather conditions.  The noticeable feature of the two days of competition has been the change in fortune of the various disciplines in the sport.  Sprinting is now the strongest area of Cork [...]

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The Munster senior and vets track and field championships were held at the CIT track today.  A heavy shower of rain threatened the early stages of the event, but, thankfully, it cleared, making for some excellent competition. Tony Lilley of Togher was back in action in the 800m, looking to enhance his reputation as one [...]

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  The Evening Echo South Munster schools track and field championships were held in ideal conditions at the Cork Institute of Technology track today.  Numbers competing were, disappointingly, down on last year.  This could possibly be a result of the long running teachers dispute, but more likely reflects poor recruiting of teenage athletes by clubs [...]

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Weather conditions couldn’t have been better for the Munster junior and under 23 track and field championships, held at Castleisland today, with warm pleasant sun for most of the meet.  Biggest complaint of the day was that the track events were brought forward at a very early stage, but that didn’t stop Leevale sprinters from [...]

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