Category: Marathons

April Running…

APRIL 3RD – Super running on a sunny spring day… Early this morning Ronan O’Sullivan ran the Berlin Half Marathon in 1:35:57. And at lunchtime Vincent McQuillan, Joan McQuillan & Emma Wiebenga popped down to Carrick to run the Carrick Aces Credit Union 5K. Well done Everyone APRIL 23RD & 24TH – What...

Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day

In the heart of the Midlands on this happy St. Patrick’s Day, Danny Cirdei, David Tyhuis, Ben Corcoran, Frank Meade & Leo Farrell completed the Mullingar Half Marathon. If was a tough one but all finished well with a couple of PBs too. Maith sibh a dhaoine uaisle And four days later; flying...

Our adults are on the March again…

March 5th – What a lovely weekend for running. A super well done to all our members who completed and thoroughly enjoyed the Carlingford Half Marathon & 10k on March 5th and despite the windy conditions spirits were high on this sunny spring day with lots of PBs and season’s best. Well done...

It must be love to run 50k…

Maith ThĂș agus Bualadh Bos to Danny Cirdei, Bernie Balfe and David Tyhuis who competed in the Irish National 50k Championships in Donadea on February 12th. A super achievement, Congratulations Super running from these Three Amigos in tough heavy wet conditions but they did it with tremendous support and encouragement of each other...

November delights from a Marathon to a 10K to X Country Championships…

NOVEMBER 13TH – Congratulations to Aisling O’Malley, Amanda McElroy, Danny Cirdei, David Tyhuis, Roy Crawley, Sarah Duff, Aidan Mooney, Peter Carolan and Pauline Breslin on completing the Mullingar Marathon. Super running from everyone and a fantastic achievement especially for Aisling, Amanda, Sarah, Aidan and Pauline as this was their first marathon and Roy...

October delights in cross country and on the road…

Lots of running for our Adults this month and it began with the Louth Novice Cross Country Championships held in the GAA Centre of Excellence in Darver… OCTOBER 3rd – The Ladies were up first in the Novice 3000m and they certainly set the bar for the rest of our club competing that...

SEPTEMBER 2021 and they’re on the run again…

SEPTEMBER 11th – Congratulations to these Fantastic Four… Danny Cirdei, Bernie Balfe, David Tyhuis and Amanda McElroy who completed the Ratoath Half Marathon this morning. They had lovely weather, perfect running conditions and some wonderful times too with a new PB for Danny of 1:26:38 placing him 35th overall amongst some talented athletes....

Welcome to our Community – Louth Sanctuary Runners

On June 7th some of our members joined Louth Sanctuary Runners to complete a relay for the Cork City Virtual Marathon. We had fun meeting these newcomers to our community. Sanctuary Runners enable Irish residents to run alongside and in solidarity with, asylum seekers and refugees in Direct Provision.