SEPTEMBER 2026
September 5th – The month began with Seamie’s 5K & 10K. Congratulations to all our competitors, volunteers and committee and a huge shoutout to our club members on their amazing achievements at this year’s race event (click here to see our full report – Seamie’s 5K & 10K 2026).
A full array of photographs can be found on Adrian Crawley’s Facebook Album – Adrian Crawley Photography – Seamie Weldon 5K & 10K 20260905
A snippet of our club on the day…
And congratulations to our club’s prize winners (The club will contact our members directly regarding the Louth Master’s Road Race winners) …
- 5K Female Teams – Jimmy Bradley Memorial Cup – 2nd place – Ardee & District AC (Shauna, Bernie, Molly & Lucy)
- 5K Male Teams – Seamie Weldon Memorial Cup – 1st place – Ardee & District AC (Max, Alfie, Jack and Barry)
- 10K Male Teams – 1st place – Ardee & District AC (Vincent, Dave, Kevin & David)
- 5K Junior Winners – Female – 3rd place – Shauna Mannion
- 5K Junior Winners – Male – 1st place – Max O’Sullivan / 3rd place – Alfie O’Sullivan
- 5K Over 40s – 2nd place – Bernie Balfe (Ardee & District AC)
- First runners home for Ardee & District AC…
- 5K – Shauna Mannion & Max O’Sullivan
- 10K – Susan Rowntree & Vincent McQuillan
September 12th – While many of our members were out on long runs over the weekend, Dave Symmons and Ronan O’Sullivan enjoyed our two favourite local parkruns, Deerpark in Carlanstown and Oldbrdge…
September 19th/20th – A busy weekend for our members… On Saturday monring Vincent enjoyed the Deerpark parkrun in Carlanstown, finishing in the top 3 while Ronan and his sons were over in Oldbridge pushing hard and fast at their parkrun. The following day we had Ashling O’Malley flying the Ardee colours with friends at the Saucony Run Shoreditch Half Marathon in London and Louise Tyhuis, Shirley McKenny, Kate Moonan, Helen Symmons, Emma Wiebenga, Benny O’Kane, Conor Higgins, Peter Carolan, David Tyhuis and Roy Crawley running the Irish Life Half Marathon in Dublin. Lots of happy faces this weekend, congratulations to you All.
September 26th/27th – On Saturday morning Vincent McQuillan was the 1st man home at the Oldbridge parkrun (no picture) and over in Norway Ronan O’Sullivan competed in the Oslo Hyrox (no picture). The following day as the rain cleared we had Rory Cousins up in Dublin obtaining a super time of 16:12 minutes at the Rathfarnham 5K (no picture) while Emma Wiebenga, Teresa Ludden, Joan McQuillan, Vincent McQuillan, Roy Crawley, Brian Duffy, Aidan Mooney & Niall Carroll ran The Stonetown 5K held in memory of Mark, Louise & Evan O’Connor. Lovely running from you all this weekend, well done.
OCTOBER 2026
October 3rd/4th – Enjoying our local parkruns this weekend were Ronan in Oldbridge and Joan and Emma with family in Deerpark Carlanstown. And the following day Rory Cousins and Vincent McQuillan finished with impressive times at the Louth Senior Cross Country Championship in Belurgan Park. Running 7500m, Rory finished 4th overall in an impressive time of 26:05 minutes (3rd in senior category) and Vincent McQuillan finished in 31:15minutes (2nd in O55 category). Congratulations Gentlemen (No picutes).
October 10th/11th – A mixed bag of events this weekend saw Rory Cousins and Vincent McQuillan compete at the Louth Novice Cross Country Championships in Darver. Congratulations to both men and in particular to Rory who won Gold, the first man home in an impressive 20:47 in the Men’s 6000m and Vincent finishing in and equally impressive 24:55. Making his debut in cross country saw Shane Fahy represent his college, DKIT compete in the National Intervasity Cross Country Championships (Irish Universities) at DKIT Dundalk. Shane ran an impressive 34:59 in the 8K, well done Shane (no picutre). Up in Dublin we had Sarah Ni Lochlainn and her family enjoying the Sanctuary Runners Global 5K Cross County around the grounds of the National Sports Centre and down in Athlone, Michael Pentony thoroughly enjoyed his Level2 Coaching Course. Well done Everyone.
October 17th/18th –
Congratulations to Andrew McKay, Ashling O’Malley, Barry Rogers, Bernie Balfe, Danny Cirdei, David Tyhuis, Kate Moonan and Louise Tyhuis who competed in the TCS Amasterdam Marathon in the Netherlands on October 18th. This marathon is a World Athletics Platinum Label and is considered one of the fastest city marathons in the world and they did it. Fantastic running, well done Everyone.
October Bank Holiday – 24th/25th/26th – The weekend began with Vincent popping over to Deerpark parkrun Carlanstown, finishing in the top 3. And on Bank Holiday Monday a few of our members ran the Irish Life Dublin Marathon, some for the first time. Congratulations to Ronan O’Sullivan, Connor Higgins, Benny O’Kane, Jack McCarron, Catherine McKiernan, Louise Tyhuis, Helen Symmons, Alice Turley, Shirley McKenny and Ursula Mothiram…
