Rathfarnham WSAF AC

What a week for Rathfarnham athletes.
At the National Half Marathon Championships, our crew brought home a haul of medals:
• Dave Power and Kevin Donagher smashed it with 2nd 🥈 & 3rd 🥉 M40 (73 & 74 mins).
• The evergreen Gerry Boyle ran 87 mins to win M65 🥇 and help secure the O35 team victory 🥇.
• Donal Murphy kept the momentum with another M70 win 🥇, and Sheelagh Jones grabbed 2nd F65 🥈.
• Great running too from Jackie Kingston and Denis Daly representing the club in Cork.
In the Cork City Marathon, Tom Cuddy added to the medal count with an impressive M65 win 🥇.
Midweek, our young stars shone at the National Schools Championships in Tullamore:
• Ellie Oldrey took silver 🥈 and bronze 🥉 in the 300m and 300m hurdles (45.34).
• Lucy Blessington sprinted to gold 🥇 in the Minor Girls 100m (13.11).
We wrapped up the week with a brilliant Rathfarnham presence at the VHI Women’s Mini Marathon.
Super performances all round.

Dublin Championships Juvenile 2026

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🌟 Weekly Round‑Up: Track, Heat & Plenty of Medals! 🌟
What a week — all roads (and tracks!) led from Irishtown → Santry → back to Irishtown 🏃‍♀️🔥
🥇 Graded Track 10k – GOLD for the Team!
Huge congratulations to our gold‑medal‑winning trio:
Alexey Marchenko – Individual Gold 🥇
Matt Kane
Louis McCarthy
Superb running from all three — serious grit over 25 laps! 💪
🏆 Dublin Juvenile Championships – Santry Success
Our young athletes lit up Santry with medals and national qualifications! 🌟
Emily Corrigan (U12) – Dublin Champion in the 600m 🥇
Ellie Oldrey (U17) – Dublin Champion in the 300m Hurdles 🥇
Callum Kelly (U18) – Silver in the 400m Hurdles 🥈
Incredible performances across the board 👏🔥
👧👦 U9–U11 Children’s Games – Irishtown Magic
On Sunday, the sunshine kept coming and so did the results! ☀️
Elsie Stephenson & Holly O’Donnell – 2nd place in the Dublin U11 Girls 600m 🥈💙
Brilliant running from the youngest stars of the club!
📸 A Scorcher of a Weekend
Plenty of sunshine, smiles, and standout performances — and loads of photos to prove it ☀️🔥

At the Third Dublin Graded Meeting on Wednesday 20th May on the Crusaders Ringsend track, Alexy Marchenko won the 10,000m Dublin Championships in 32.31. He was supported by Matthew Keane 4th in 33.12 and Louis McCarthy 8th in 34.17 to take team gold in the Championships. In the 1.500m Alice Hickey ran 5.06 and Aisling O'Connor ran 5.23. In his 1,500m Jonathan Gray ran 5.25. Isabel Mullarney won the Shot Putt with 8.58m and Vanessa Sallier was 2nd. with a 5.72m throw. In the Javelin Isabel threw 25.83m and Vanessa threw 9.93m. Well done to all.

Many thanks to Lindie Naughton's Flicker site for these pictures.

🏔️ Wicklow Way Relay 2026 🏃‍♀️💪
Great running, great camaraderie, great atmosphere – an amazing team effort all round! 🙌💚
The Wicklow Way Relay once again delivered a brilliant day full of excitement (and the usual drama! 😅).
💥 Team Rathfar‑mná put in phenomenal performances, finishing in an incredible 9:54:00 ⏱️👏
…with another tracker gate moment thrown in for good measure 😳📍
Every leg brought determination, grit, and serious strength across the Dublin & Wicklow mountains 🏔️💚
⭐ Stellar runs from:
Clare Shiels
Esther Lawlor
Laura Flynn
Beth Neal
Donna Mahon
Gráinne Black
Éilis Connery
Lían Brady
📸 Delighted to have photos of all the runners

What a weekend for the club 🎉💚
Saturday 16th May – Irish Runner 5K, Phoenix Park
Our crew showed up big time with some fantastic age‑category podiums 🏅:
🥇 Paul Fleming – 1st M50
🥉 Sheelagh Jones – 3rd F65
🥈 Tom Cuddy – 2nd M65
🥇 Donal Murphy – 1st M70
Brilliant runs too from:
Patrick MacGAbhann (13th overall!) 🔥
Ciarán Aylward
Alexander Dunne Martin
Aisling O’Connor
Vanessa Sallier
Amy Cooke
Helen French
Sunday 17th May – Fastlane Half Marathon
Huge well done to Nuala Dervan and Sophie McGrath who both smashed it out on the course 💪🏃‍♀️✨
Another great weekend of racing — well done everyone! 💚🙌

Best of luck to these 8 brave women taking part in the WWR tomorrow . To track the event , use this link .

https://live.primaltracking.com/wwr2026/

🔥 WEEKLY ROUND‑UP: MEDALS EVERYWHERE 🔥
What. A. Week. 😅
We’re basically running out of space in the trophy cabinet at this point 🏆😂
First — a few quietly collected medals from last week (because our masters are too modest for their own good 😇):
🥇 Gerry Boyles only went and WON the M65 category at the Limerick Half Marathon. Casual. No big deal. Just GOLD.
🥇 Meanwhile, Vanessa Sallier was off in Sicily 🇮🇹 representing Ireland at the European Masters and came home with a haul:
🥇 Team Gold (Women 55+) in the 10km road race — won by TWO SECONDS. Talk about drama 😅
🥇 Team Gold (Women 45+) in the XC relay
🥈 Team Silver (Women 55+) in the XC relay
🇮🇪 AND a national record in the 20km walk (Women 55+). Queen behaviour.
Now onto THIS week 👇
🏃‍♂️ Sandyford 5K
Dave Power smashed it with a 4th‑place finish and — as usual — 1st M40. Machine.
🏃‍♀️ Sportsworld Terenure 5 Mile
Perfect weather, perfect chaos, perfect medal raid 😎
Patrick MacGabhann led the charge and finished an unreal 2nd place after a fierce last‑kilometre battle with Eddie O’Connor (Brothers Pearse), who’s absolutely flying right now.
And the age‑grade podiums? We basically owned them:
🥇 Sean McCreery – M60
🥇 Tom Cuddy – M65
🥈 Martin Kelly – M65
🥇 Donal Murphy – M70
🥈 Gráinne Black – F45
Plus brilliant runs from:
Alexander Dunne Martin • Declan Quinn • Gavin Murphy • John McHugh • Catherine Kelly • Padraig Keogan 💥
Full results here if you want to nerd out on the numbers:
👉 https://myrunresults.com/events/_sportsworld_terenure_5_mile_2026/6263/results

Well done to all who competed at today's Dublin Graded Meeting at Morton Stadium in Santry over 1,500m and 200m. In the 1500m Aisling O'Connor ran 5.28 and Sophie McGrath ran 5.50. In the 200m Ciara MAC DONNECHA ran 27.39 and Callum Kelly ran 25.30. Vanessa Sallier trew 12.53 in the discus. Well done to all.

Santry – 9th May 2026
Day two of the Dublin Juvenile Leagues brought another fantastic turnout in the sunshine 🌤️. Plenty of traffic to battle through 🚗💨 but totally worth it for the brilliant action shots, big smiles, and some superb podium finishes 🥇🥈🥉
The energy, the effort, the team spirit — all absolutely top‑class 💚🤍
Next stop: The Dublin Championships on 23rd May… not long now and excitement is already building 🔥🙌
Let’s keep it rolling! 💪✨