Derval O’Rourke brought her season’s best down to under 8 seconds, in finishing third at a meet in Prague last night

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Three Leevale athletes have been selected by Athletics Ireland to compete in the European Indoor Championships in Turin. Derval O’Rourke will compete in the 60m hurdles. Her form continues to improve, having set a season’s best of 7.99 seconds at the meet in Prague over the weekend. Ailis McSweeney will compete in the 60m and [...]

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The next Munster Regional Squad day takes place on Saturday Feb 28th at Cork IT with registration starting at 10.15am at the track and training starting at 11am sharp. The guest speaker on the day will be former Irish Olympic Team Doctor John O’ Riordan. John has huge experience in the area of Sports Medicine/Sports [...]

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For anyone who might be travelling to Nenagh for the first time next weekend the following are the directions for getting to the stadium

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There were some other great performances by Leevale athletes in various disciplines over the weekend. At the AAI Intermediate & Masters Cross Country held at Tymon Park in Dublin yesterday, Carmel Parnell finished 8th in the Masters Women, scoring on the Cork team that finished 2nd. Full cross-country results Leevale athletes were also in action [...]

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Joe Nagle has been in great form of late and recently completed a unique throwing treble. After winning the shot putt in the National Masters Indoors earlier this year, he then went on to win golds at both the Leinster and Munster and Championships. This double was made possible by Joe’s “dual citizenship”, as he [...]

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Derval O’Rourke ran a seasonal best of 8.06 to finish 4th at the BW-Bank-Meeting, improving on the 8.12 she ran at the Woodie’s DIY National Indoor Championships in Belfast. Clubmate Ailis McSweeney was placed third in the 60m Final at European Indoor Trials in Sheffield. The time of 7.43 seconds edges closer to the qualifying [...]

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The Munster juvenile U13-U17 championships were held in Nenagh over the weekend. The turnout of Leevale athletes was down considerably this year. The athletes who travelled found a strong level of competition and medals were hard come by. Emma O’Brien had the Leevale performance of the weekend, winning the Girls U14 60m in style. In [...]

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Several Leevale athletes made the long trip to the world-class Odyssey Arena in Belfast this weekend, and most were rewarded with silverware. Derval O’Rourke, though still a bit off her form of a couple of years back, is improving with every race, and finished second on the track to Gemma Bennett of the GBR team [...]

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