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Wins for Clonliffe middle distance athletes at Lucan graded
The Clonliffe middle distance athletes were very much to the fore in tonight’s Dublin graded meet in Lucan. Helena Butterly hit the front of the women’s 3000 from the gun quickly opening opening a lead on the field and ran solo for the full race distance knocking all of 8 seconds off her PB winning in a time of 10.02.12. A most impressive performance in what was one of the hottest evenings of the year.

Ben Guiden did similar in the men’s 3000 hitting the front after a couple of laps and running solo for the race distance to record an outdoor PB of 8.23.03.

In the 800s, Damien Prendergast finished 7th in grade A in a time of 1.54.20. Fintan Kerins had a fall in this race but dusted himself off and lined up in the B race which he won in 1.56.33.

In grade C was a big PB for Said Adbiwahab Muhudin as he finished in 2nd place in 2.04.67. Douglas Oliveria Teixeria was 8th in this race in 2.07.51. There was a fine win in grade D for Mohamoud Mohamed Hashi in a time of 2.08.15.

The final graded meet of the season take place on Wednesday, July 29.

Grand Prix: Byrne Cup 1500, tomorrow.

Clonliffe Harriers Grand Prix Series. Byrne Cup 1500m – Morton Stadium. 8pm Thursday 16th July 2026. Race Sponsor: David Dinnen

The Clonliffe Harriers 2026 Grand Series continues this Thursday evening, 16th July at 8pm. To accommodate the large entry of 66 runners, there will be three 1500m races. The Byrne Cup is one of the most popular races in the Grand Prix Series.

The start list for the three 1500m races is below. The first race will be at 8pm, the second at 8.10pm and the third at 8.20pm.

The Series has been enjoying glorious weather of late. Participants should be mindful of the warm conditions; ensure you are well hydrated before and after the race. Pace yourself sensibly – run within your limits and adjust your effort if needed.

Our race sponsor on this occasion is David Dinnen.

There will be light refreshments provided at the post-race prizegiving in the Clonliffe Clubhouse. The winners of the previous GP race the 5000m Middlesex Cup will also be presented with their prizes on the night. If you are not running, your help at the race would be appreciated.

Race 1 – 8.00pm

No First name Surname
1 Aisling Andrews
2 Robbie Burns
3 Dave Comiskey
4 Brian Connolly
5 David Connolly
6 David Dineen
7 Sean Doran
8 Stephen Doyle
9 Ray Dunne
10 Dave Dunwoody
11 Gareth Enright
12 Andrew Gaffney
13 Matt Glitz
14 Mohamoud Hashi
15 Siad Addiwahab Muhudin
16 Cian Murray
17 Brian O’Reilly
18 Fergal O’Shea
19 Mark O’Sullivan
20 Dara Peyton
21 Filip Rzeszutko
22 Niall Sherlock
23 Paul Stewart
Race 2 – 8.10pm

No First name Surname
1 Peigi Allen
2 Richie Barr
3 Gerry Brady
4 Cara Campos
5 David Doran
6 Diarmuid Doyle
7 Alex Eustace
8 Carl Fleming
9 Joe Fowler
10 Mick Gleeson
11 Sean Grimes
12 Philip Mathews
13 Maura Mathews
14 George Maybury
15 Fran McEntee
16 Alan Monnelly
17 Aideen O’Connor
18 Ronan O’Huallachan
19 Emma Przymusinska
20 Shane Rooney
21 Piotr Szelest
22 Ger Walsh
23 Liam Ward
Race 3 – 8.20pm

No First name Surname
1 Peter Cahill
2 Mel Curran
3 Colm Doran
4 Deirdre Fitzsimons
5 Dave Hanley
6 Pam Kavanagh
7 Niall Markey
8 Siobhan McCarty
9 Declan Murray
10 Brian O’Callaghan
11 Anthony O’Brien
12 Ruth O’Sullivan
13 Mary Purdue
14 Dave Reilly
15 Philip Richards
16 Alan Ryan
17 Fionnuala Smith
18 Alan Warroll
19 Rachel Welsby
20 Trevor Wisdom

Silver for Luke at National Juvenile T & F.

Eugenia Bateson reports:The Juvenile National Championships concluded this weekend at a hot and sweltering Tullamore.

Day 3 of the Championships was the 1500m, 200m and various field events. Unfortunately at the time of writing the report (its been a busy weekend), the results from Day 3 are no longer available so apologies for omissions.

Luke Tracey however, was a standout performance taking the silver in the U15 Boys 1500m. Daire Cronin finished 10th. In the girls 1500m Nessa Byrne finished 15th having returned from a months holiday and Finn McGurren finished 8th with a massive 20 second pb in his U14 Boys 1500m. Kate Gill went out hard in the U16 1500m showing her fine form, however the 27c temperatures had other ideas for Kate and she didn’t finish as well as she had planned but her improvement over the past few months shows an exciting cross country season ahead for her. Rachel Ardiff achieved a 2 sec PB in the U19 1500m

In the Javelin Competition, we had Conor Tynan, Conor Phelan and Nkita Karpej compete in the U18 Boys competition, a fantastic testament of their hard training to get all 3 to Nationals.

Day 4 was the final day and we were represented by an U13 4 x 100m relay of James Glynn, Isaac Kupiec Boyle, Lenny Keane Flannery and Joshua Conaghan who finished the 5th fastest team in the country in their first Nationals. The U14 Boys team of Channing O’Shea, Rhys Daly, Max Bamford and Joshua Conaghan had a brilliant race to take the Silver with an impressive performance from all 4 lads.

Apologies for the omissions but no results were sent and are now down from the website, but performances were excellent across the whole Juvenile Section this season and the club has been very proud of the achievements of our Juvenile section throughout track and field. Well done to all coaches and athletes.

Sunday also hosted the B Championships and we had great interest in this event.

Eoghan Creaner was man of the day with a Gold in the U15 Boys Long Jump with a jump of 5.21 and a silver in 100m in 12.40.

In the U13 boys 80m sprint Isaac Kupiec Boyle finished 6th in heat 2 in 12.15 and John Carroll finished 3rd in heat 4 in 11.80. Isaac also competed in the Long jump finishing 4th with his best jump of 4.08 and John finished 5th in the high jump with his best jump of 1.25

U14’s, Daisy Asante Keenan finished 2nd in heat 1 in 11.15 of the 80m through to the final with Millie Ryan also finishing 2nd in heat 3 in 11.18 and a q to the final. Adrianna Madrzynska finished 3rd in heat two and while not achieving qualification to the final, she achieved a PB with her time of 11.48. Daisy finished a brilliant 4th in the final in 11.15 and Millie was 5th in 11.18. well done ladies. Adrianna then went on to run in the 800m finishing 7th in heat 1 in 2:39.50 with Lucy Fagan finishing 9th in that heat. Heat was the word of the day and with a programme running hours behind schedule this no doubt impacted performances in this distance. Aoife Fowler ran in heat 2 finishing 13th in her heat. Mila Webb finished 12th in the High Jump. In the U14 Boys 800m Rhys Jenkins finished 5th in 2:34.05

U15’s – Annabella Kupiec Boyle finished 4th in heat 1 of the 100m in 14.63 In the 800m Aliyah Riyad finished 1st in heat 2 in 2:31.31 and with the final based on times finished 2nd overall.

And so the 2026 Track & Field Season comes to a close. It has been a tremendously successful season from our U10’s to our U19’s. Well done to each and every athlete and a special thanks to all our coaches for giving your time so freely.

Enjoy the well deserved break. Coaches will be back in touch in August with return to training dates but for now enjoy the break – Cross Country is up next !!

Busy Weekend for the Master Athletes

Niall Allen reports: On Saturday, July 11th, a team of nine athletes competed in the annual DSD Masters Team Event representing Clonliffe Harriers.

The ten event format with eight events to count is age graded so the winner of the event may not have the best overall performance.
First up for Clonliffe was Snezana Bechtina winning her heat in the 100m with a time of 13.29s into a headwind and placing 2nd overall. In the field events ongoing at the same time Edel Maguire jumped 1.32m (5th highest) and finished 1st overall on age
graded score whilst Niall Allen won the shot put with a throw of 11.95m.
The action continued on the track with Stephen Harkness running 2m08.89s in the 800m for 2nd in his heat and finishing 5th overall. Edel completed in her second event the 200m and came away with the overall age graded win with a time of
30.14s. Back in the field Niall placed 3rd overall in the discus whilst throwing the furthest with 35.75m. Michael Omakobia competed in the long jump for the first time jumping 4.14m placing 5th overall. In the final event before the relays Niall Sherlock won his 1500m heat in sweltering conditions in a time of 4m29s placing 5th overall.

At this stage Clonliffe were leading but with both relays to be competed. The 4×100 team of Edel, Katherine Markey, Snezana and Michael ran a great race to place 2nd in their heat with a time of 54.86 and 2nd overall. In the 4x400m fresh reinforcements were called upon with the team of Niall, Aisling Andrews, Diarmuid
Doyle and Stephen winning with a time of 4m19s.

When the scores were counted up
and the two weakest events dropped Clonliffe Harriers secured the win with 68 points from DSD AC 55 and Meath County with 53 points.

There were also guest events on the day with Cian O Loughlin running 12.66s
in the 100m; Edel and Katherine running 14.59s and 14.83s respectively in the 100m.Katherine also ran 31.63 for the 200m. Aisling and Diarmuid ran 2.32.95 and 2.49.65 in the 800m warming up for the relay. Andrej Dmitrenko threw 31.61m in the mens discus.

On Sunday two athletes travelled to Lusk ACs Heavy Throws event. The event comprised of the shot put and two traditional Irish events the weight for distance and height. Vivan Okefor (W40) threw 7.64m in the shot, 6.49m in the weight for distance and 3.0m in the weight for height which was the first time that
Vivan has tried this event. In the mens events Niall Allen threw 12.11m in the shot, 8.77m in the weight for distance and 5.10m in the weight for height which was an unofficial M50 Irish Record.

Roads round up

Several clonliffe athletes took to the roads this week. At the Docklands 5k on Thursday 9th July, Clonliffe men finished 4th team, lead home by Lee Duddy 14th, 15:58, Douglas Oliveria Teixtera 43rd, 16:47 and Andrew Gaffney 54th 17:04. Other Clonliffe:

Finglas To Howth Summit 11/07/26, Anto Doran took 1st place in 1:20.39. 2oth was Filip Rzeszutko 1:40.07

Thermonfeckin Half Marathon 12th July: Sean Grimmes 1:41:48, Brian O’Callaghan 1:51:01

Fingal 10k 12th July Eoin Maguire was Clonliffe’s top fnisher in 4th (33:16). A big turn out from the club.

Clonliffe track & field catch up.

We are only now getting a chance to catch up on the track and field action after a pretty busy week to say the least! This week several of our athletes have been in action. On July 3 Cathal Doyle was 8th in the 1500 at the Meeting Stanislas Nancy, Tomblaine in France in a time of 3.33.52, that time is a frustrating two hundredths of a second outside the automatic QT for the European Championships. On Wednesday, July 8 at the Cork City Sports Cathal placed 4th in the 800 in a time of 1.47.62. Also in that race was Garrett O’Toole who finished 8th in 1.49.08. Then on Friday night at Morton Games Cathal was 4th in the Morton mile in 3.52.24. Garrett O’Toole finished 6th at Morton Games in the 800 in 1.49.50.

Unfortunately an injured Hannah Segrave came home at the tail end of the field in the 800 at Cork City Sports in 2.11.90.

On Wednesday, July 7 at the BMC gold standard meet in Trafford Sean Carrigg ran a huge 800 PB of 1.52.24 placing 6th.

A 400 PB also across the water for Christopher Lynch, today, July 12 at the Stratford speed GP of 47.54 as he took 3rd place in his race.

Apologies for any missing results. (Message 0879599888 with full details)

Morton Games was a Night of Stars.

Below is the report from mortongames.ie on Friday’s meet. Full results available on the event web site. Sincere thanks to every member of the club who helped in the delivery of an extraordindary night’s athletics.

Full report: https://www.clonliffeharriersac.com/morton-games-was-a-night-of-stars/

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Morton Games coming on Friday.

Friday is the biggest night of the Clonliffe Harriers year as Morton Games, WACT (bronze) takes place in the stadium, promoted and hosted by Clonliffe Harriers.

There is a full programme of international events featuring two of Clonliffe’s National Champions, Cathal Doyle and Hannah Segrave in a star studded event. It will be A Night of Stars. Please visit mortongames.ie where you will find full information including daily event previews.

To save time at the gate athletics fans are advised to purchase tickets online now. Tickets cost €15 (plus service) for adults with U/16’s, no ticket required, going free. Adult tickets are on sale now through this link: https://eventmaster.ie/event/42VRh4rFEe

As part of our sustainability drive we would encourage all patrons of Morton Games to avail of public transport. Santry is very well serviced by Dublin Bus with bus routes, numbers 16, 27 B ,33, 41, 41B, 41C with a stop at Morton Stadium. Bus route no. 1 from the city to Santry (Shanliss) is a 10 minute walk to Morton Stadium. Route N6 runs from Finglas/Kilbarrack/Finglas with a stop on Santry Avenue, (2 minutes walk to Morton Stadium).

Cyclists are also catered for with Santry being served by cycle lanes and bicycle racks available in Morton Stadium for use.

For those travelling by car please note that there is no car parking permitted in Morton Stadium (that is for officials and invited guests only), event car parking is available at Trinity Sports Grounds on Santry Avenue, approximately 15 minutes walk to the stadium. Please note that there is no event parking in Santry Park, please be aware that if you do park in the car park of Santry Park then you must remove your car from there before 9 PM as that car park is secured and locked by Fingal at 9 PM. Please also be respectful of our neighbours in Santry and do not Park your vehicle illegally, the gardai are aware of the event and illegally or dangerously park vehicles maybe ticketed or removed by the authorities.

Event timetable:

Pre Programme (5.30pm – 7.00pm)

5.30 Dublin Athletics U/10 4 x 200 mixed relay

5.40 Dublin Athletics U/12 4 x 200 mixed relay

5.50 Dublin Athletics U/14 4 x 200 mixed relay

6.00 Dublin Athletics U/16 4 x 200 mixed relay

6.15 Fingal 16 x 100 U/10 to U/16 Interclub mixed relay

6.28 U/20 Women’s Mile

6.36 U/20 Men’s Mile

6.45 National Ambulant men100

Main Programme (6.30pm -9.00pm)

6.30 Women’s High Jump

6.50 Women’s Hammer

6.55 Men’s 100 semi-final 1

7.05 Men’s 100 semi-final 2

7.15 Women’s mixed classification Para 100

7.25 Women’s 100 Hurdles

7.30 Men’s Shot

7.35 Men’s 400

7.45 Women’s 400

7.55 Men’s 800

8.05 Women’s 800

8.15 Men’s 100 Final

8.25 Albie Thomas Men’s 5000

8.45 Women’s1500

8.55 Morton Mile

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Clonliffe at National U/20 & U/23 Championships.

The National U/20 & U/23 Championships Tullamore, July 4th and 5th . Day 1 report by Michelle Lynch: First on the track was Emily Jachna in heat 3 of the u20 women’s 100m. 12.80 got her a small q and a place in the finals. A further improvement in the final saw a time of 12.78 and 7th place.

Next up was were the 4 Clonliffe men in the u23 100m. 4 heats in this event meant only the winner was guaranteed a place in the final with the final 4 places going to the 4 fastest non automatic qualifiers. Bilal Kanimodo took 2nd place in heat 1 with a time of 10.86 and a place in the final.

Brandon Muchini was next up for Clonliffe in Heat 2 but unfortunately his time of 11.18 wasn’t enough to see him proceed to the final.

Luca Logue-Fonseca took 1st place in heat 3 with a time of 11.00 and automatic qualification.

Adam Festus got second place in heat 4 with a time of 11.83 which unfortunately wasn’t enough to see him through to the finals.
The men’s 100m final saw a field of 8 very closely matched athletes fighting it out and all of them running under 11 seconds. Luca Logue-Fonseca finished in 5th place with a time of 10.87 and Bilal Kanimodo was right on his shoulder in 7th place with a time of 10.90 seconds.

Next up was the u20 men’s 400m where 5 heats meant qualification for the finals was based on the winner from each heat plus the 4 fastest. In heat 2, Findlay McGill finished in 2nd place with a time of 50.48 and a place in the final booked.

The final saw Findlay run a valiant race and narrowly missing out on a medal with a time of 50.40 in 4th place U23 men’s 400m had Christopher Lynch finish 3rd in heat 3 with a time of 50.85 and automatic qualification into the final.

The final was a race of two halves with the first 4 all clocking times under 48 seconds and Christopher achieving a PB of 47.97 to finish in 4th place.

In the field events, Ethan Thompson threw a superb 53.67m achieving a new PB and earning himself a Bronze medal in the U20 Men Hammer Throw (6Kg). In the same event, Dylan Jones finished in 5th place with a throw of 49.29.

In all, we had 5 athletes representing Clonliffe Harriers achieve a place in the National Finals and a Bronze medal for Ethan in the Hammer Throw.

Day 2 (July 5th): Day two of u20/u23 National Championships
There was a smaller contingent of Clonliffe athletes competing on day 2 but as
always, they made their presence felt..
First on the track was Christopher Lynch in Heat 1 in the u23 men’s 200m. A solid run with a time of 22.82 earned him a place in the final, but a ni**le after the race led him to make the decision not to compete so he withdrew.
Matei Ursachi was next up in the u20 men’s 1500m who finished in 6 th place with a time of 4:01.86.
Last on the track was Chloe Heslip in the women’s u23 1500m where she finished in 7 th place with a time of 5:06.93.
Over the two days Clonliffe had 10 Track Athletes competing across 6 events and 5 of those athletes progressed from their heats to a final.

Well done all, Nil Desperandum.

Four get Northern Exposure.

Diarmuid Doyle reports: On Saturday, 4 Clonliffe athletes travelled north to the Mary Peters stadium for the NI Masters Track and Field Championships. Conditions were warm and breezy, thankfully not as hot as earlier in the week.

Niall Allen dominated in M50 Field Events taking 4 Golds: Hammer (32.11), Shot Putt (12.48), Discus (35.20) and Weight Throw (12.58)

Joe Gibbons(M65) competed in both Discus (20.33) and Javelin (12.81) taking Bronze medals in both events.

Meanwhile on the Track, Diarmuid Doyle (M65) took Silver in both 800m and 1500m and Gold in 400m while the ever-green
George Maybury (M70) took Silver in 800m.

In a surprising turn of events, Hon. Treasurer Carl, who had Parkrun at Paisley Park that morning, was at the Stadium to audibly support the Clonliffe crew!

Unsurprisingly, travel expenses weren’t covered.