Lusk Athletic Club

🔹 Good luck to our members taking part in the VHI Mini Marathon today 🙌🏻

𝐈𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ 🇮🇪

Tomorrow will see tens of thousands of people take to the streets of Cork and Dublin in a celebration of fitness, wellbeing, and community participation🤩

From elite athletes chasing national honours to first-time participants walking or jogging with friends and family, these events highlight the growing appetite for active lifestyles right across the country📈

Best of luck to everyone taking part 👏

Find your next Athletics Ireland permitted event👇
https://www.athleticsireland.ie/get-involved/events-calendar/

🔹 𝗟𝗲𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀

A successful weekend for Lusk AC at the Leinster Championships in Carlow with a number of excellent performances and medals across the events.

Mark Geraghty won gold in the M45 Weight for Distance with a throw of 4.84m.

Colm Ó Donnchadha had an outstanding championships, winning bronze in the Senior Weight Throw, silver in Weight for Distance and gold in Weight for Height.

Robyn Carey won the Junior 800m in a new Championship Record time of 2:12.86.

Conor McGrath finished 5th in the 800m final on Sunday.

Nessa Donoghue claimed gold in both the U20 Pole Vault and Weight for Height, setting a new Championship Record of 3.90m in the Pole Vault.

Well done to all athletes representing Lusk AC so proudly. 👏🏻👏🏻

🔷 𝗗𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗝𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻'𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀/𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

What a fantastic day at the Team Championship in Irishtown Stadium yesterday! The sun shone brightly as did our youngest Lusk AC athletes. ☀️
Our athletes gave it their all — running, throwing and jumping with determination. Some stepping on the track for the first time, many achieving new pbs, others winning medals, all having fun. 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃
Well done to Annie, Hailey, Kaelyn, Cian, Fletcher, Greyson, Mylo, Oisin, Ozzie, Alanna C, Grace, Keela, Lily, Leo, Timothy, Alannah M, Orla, Elliot and Matthew. 👏👏👏
Lusk AC has a proud, continuing history of developing young throwers, with juvenile athletes frequently bringing home medals in the turbo javelin.
Huge congratulations to Annie and Kaelyn on their U9 turbo javelin gold medal, matched by Leo and Timothy’s U10 turbo javelin gold medal 🏅🏅👏👏
Special mention to Matthew and Elliot who have qualified for Nationals in turbo javelin for the past three years in U9, U10 and now in the U11 age category! 🏅🏅👏👏

The very best of luck to our six young juveniles who will go on to showcase Lusk AC at national level in Tullamore.

A big thank you to Dublin Athletics, Crusaders AC for hosting, the parents and coaches who volunteered their time and energy — we couldn’t have done it without you. 💐💐💐

A special shout out to the parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, cousins and very patient siblings who brought the spirit and cheered on the athletes all day long! Athletics competitions really are a fun family day out, we would love to see more of our athletes attending these fun events. Please reach out to your coach with any competition questions, there is an event for every Lusk AC athlete.

Check out 👉 Live.Dublinathletics.com for results.

Online Entries for the U10-U16 T&F league is now open on the Entry4sport portal. - Competition No - 1621

A draft timetable will be circulated this week.

The closing date for Dublin Juvenile Championship Days’s 2/3&4 is Saturday 30th May. U12 to U19.

Register for all competitions here 👇https://entry.athleticsireland.ie/ #/

Please submit entries in a timely manner, and DO NOT leave them until the last evening.

NO LATE ENTIES WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER THE CLOSING DATES.

𝘾𝒍𝙪𝒃 𝑹𝙤𝒖𝙣𝒅𝙪𝒑 – 24/5/26

This week brought a fair bit of mid-week action as well as a plethora of activities over the weekend.

𝗜𝗠𝗥𝗔 𝗔𝗿𝗱𝗴𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁
Wednesday night saw an IMRA event occurring in Ardgillan. In all 120 runners joined the IMRA event which was 9.5km of trail running with around 190m of ascent and descent around the park, through woodland with a short section of flat on the beach. Peter Doyle, Andreas Kusch, Matt Bush and Greg Robins volunteered, with 5 Lusk AC members participating. Everyone performed well, with Oliver Bush, Patricia Duffy and Cian Dungan Derham coming 2nd in their categories and James Whelan coming 3rd in his in almost ideal conditions just before sunset. Results can be found at https://www.imra.ie/events/results?id=2895

𝗕𝗼𝗯 𝗛𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝟱𝗸
On Thursday Johnstownbridge, Enfield was the scene of some very fast running as 6 club members competed Derek Nolan was the first club person home in 17:24, Jakub Przymusinski got a PB with 18:07. In all there were 5 sub-20min finishes. Full results can be found at https://my.raceresult.com/396850/

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗳𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 (𝗣𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘅 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸)
Thursday also saw Lusk AC members representing their workplaces at the Staff Relay 2026 event. Shiela Bourke and Richard Wyn Foy (Aer Lingus), Ruth Kilgarriff (OLV Boys National School) and Erika Casey (Lusk National School), with the Aer Lingus team coming 16th out of 846 teams competing.

𝗜𝗠𝗥𝗔 𝗟𝗮𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗽
More IMRA activity took place over the weekend with Lusk AC in action at the Lap of the Gap marathon and Glen to Glen half marathon yesterday. Weather conditions were perfect to take in some of the finest views in Wicklow. Great routes with plenty of uphill sections to test the legs.
Both races started in Glendalough and headed up the Military Road past Glenmacanass waterfall where the half marathon turned around, retracing its steps, for a fast downhill finish.
The full continued on to Sally Gap, then across past Lough Tay before looping through Oldbridge and back to finish in Laragh.
Peter Doyle ran the marathon in 4:18 and Siobhan Doyle did the half in 2:31, results can be found at: https://lapofthegap.com/

𝗜𝗠𝗥𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗳
Further north, Matt Bush ran in the Cooley Half IMRA race finishing the tough course in 2:49:15. Results can be found at https://www.imra.ie/events/results?id=2858

𝗙𝗧𝗗 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲
This exhausting sounding challenge is to run a marathon in each of Irelands 32 counties in 32 days in aid of Dementia Charity. Donnacha Maguire and Oisin Moule joined for the Wicklow leg of this endeavour on Saturday. https://theftdbrothers.com/pages/irish-challenge

𝗩𝗞 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗞𝗶𝗹𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗲 – 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗔𝗹𝗽𝘀
Daniel O’Brien placed 13th in a vertical kilometer race in the French Alps, in probably the highest and arguably the most picturesque race a Lusk member participated in this week.

𝗘𝗠𝗙 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹
Sunday also saw Robbie Pender complete the Edinburgh Half Marathon in 02:14:41 in glorious sunshine in Edinburgh. Results can be found at: https://www.edinburghmarathon.com/results?event=1061&name=pender&running_number=&rs=439&gender=&age_category=

𝗟𝗲𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿, 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 (𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗼𝘄)
Robyn Carey 1st place in the Junior 800m at the Leinster Junior, Senior and Masters Track and field championships today in Carlow IT track, Roybn had another 2.12 800m backing up the 2.12 in the Dublin Graded meeting at the start of May. Well done Robyn

𝗡𝗲𝘄𝗿𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗳 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻
Paul Tuohy and Erica Casey both competed in the Newry Half. The weather was wonderful, but unfortunately Paul had a reoccurrence of an achilles injury and had to withdraw. At the time of writing the results aren’t yet published, so we await Erica’s result.

𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐫𝐮𝐧
Well done all the club members who participated in parkrun this weekend, 47 club members took part at 6 locations, Ardgillan, Donabate, Father Collins, Laytown, Malahide, and Naas.

Well done to Dylan Cody-Foy, Fiachre Beirne, Jake Fanning, Muireann Nulty getting PBs in Donabate, and Paul Kelly repeated the feat in Malahide.

A consolidated club parkrun report can be found at:

https://www.parkrun.com/results/consolidatedclub/?clubNum=20839&fbclid=IwY2xjawR2xZVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBnZVhqUFp6M04wTFJ0NXE3c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHlUEXlYrLPv12ank3HD-Yz9dHc4V06qBObY0He5F30CFRknXTuCwLPfy2TM3_aem_hKhq09JuVGAw2kRGKhiUjQ

Well done everyone.

🔹 𝗗𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗝𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀, 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟭

Well done to our athletes who competed yesterday in glorious sunshine 🌞
Thanks to our club officials, volunteers and parents who helped at it.

Roll on today’s Children’s Games 🙌🏻

🔹 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴

Good luck to our super athletes taking part in this weekend’s competitions in the 𝗗𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗝𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 / 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 and 𝗝𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀. 🙌🏻

🔹 𝗗𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗝𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 / 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀

Please see Sunday's timetable for the 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 in Irishtown.

We are soooo excited for this 🙌 Look out for our flag on arrival!