Author Archive: St Catherines AC
Club round up Jan 22nd
National Master Indoor T&F
We had two members who headed to the AIT International Arena, Athlone for the National Master Indoor T&F. Steve Dunning took home an amazing gold in the Long Jump with Donal Howard getting silver in WFD throwing. It is not all about running and there are opportunities to try different events. If you have interest please reach out and the club will support trying these out.
U20 National Indoor 800m
Senan O’Reilly represented the club at the National U20 & U23 Indoor Championships in Athlone. In an extremely competitive Senan continued his great form with a 2nd place finish in 1:55:20. A huge result for Senan in this National Championships.
Caherconlish 10km
We had four members who headed to Limerick recently to take on the Tom Walsh Memorial 10k . An impressive 400+ people turned up with Jim Harty first home in 31st position in a time of 37:07. Soon after Noel Early completed the 10km in 37:41 with Frances Barry next in 48:03 and John Morrisson in 52:30. Great running from all on a rolling course and great to see members travelling to the race.
IMRA Corrin
Close to home Bill O’ Keffee and Adam Blaiklock took on the IMRA Corrin race. This is over 9km and over 400 meters in elevation where you pass the cross at the top 3 times as you are guided around the paths and newly formed routes through the trees. A hugely challenging race and no doubt the legs were sore for a few days after.
IMRA Glengarra
Jonathan Kenneally and Catherine Clancy headed to Glengarra for this trail race which was just over 7km and just under 200 meters of elevation. Even though this was on Sunday it seemed to miss most of the bad weather and was perfect conditions for running.
BHAA 5km
Mike Byrne travelled to Little Island for this 5km and finished in 17:31. There was no hiding from the wind there as all runners were tested in the tough conditions.
December 10th Weekend Roundup
Cork Masters Cross Country





Overall results after 4 races of Summer Series 2023
Final results of Summer Series 2023
Overall Position | Name | 3km time | 5km time | 5 mile | 10km | Overall |
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1 | Cian Dunning | 10:25 | 19:31 | 31:41 | 39:43 | 1:41:20 |
2 | John Beecher | 11:01 | 20:02 | 31:46 | 41:02 | 1:43:51 |
3 | Dave O'Connor | 11:08 | 20:01 | 32:05 | 40:58 | 1:44:12 |
4 | Richie Lynch | 10:54 | 20:01 | 33:15 | 43:09 | 1:47:19 |
5 | Stephen Collins | 11:31 | 20:37 | 33:45 | 42:02 | 1:47:55 |
6 | Brendan Hickey | 11:36 | 21:32 | 34:41 | 44:32 | 1:53:21 |
7 | Declan Clancy | 12:38 | 23:06 | 37:45 | 46:56 | 2:00:25 |
8 | Pat Bransfield | 13:01 | 24:34 | 38:59 | 48:44 | 2:05:18 |
9 | Denis McCarthy | 14:49 | 26:03 | 44:00 | 56:05 | 2:20:57 |
10 | Marguerite Flynn | 16:17 | 30:22 | 47:38 | 1:00:25 | 2:34:42 |
11 | Ian Hegarty | 16:37 | 30:23 | 48:22 | 1:06:55 | 2:42:17 |
Club workshop with APC
We are looking to host a club workshop for our Adult runners with Avondhu Physio Therapy on 7th April at 7pm.
We need a minimum of 8 / max 12 for the session to go ahead so if interested can you please contact Mike Byrne
Details from Pa Hanley below as follows
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1. Club members or other interested runners / athletes reserve their spot
20 euro
For this price people will get.
2.
Slide presentation with key areas to consider for runners , injury management, building strength , robustness and load management .
3. Workshop & Testing-
Each attendee will be tested through a battery of tests that will help ID any imbalances , weakness
, core or flexibility issues .
4. Each person will receive their scores on the night with a brief appraisal of results and advice.
5. Special offers on the night for any block booking for physio , rehab and strength programing , classes or sports massage.
At least this way people will get a lot more personalised into from the night for then to confidentially work on.
The whole thing will take about 75 minutes .
Overall results after 4 races of Summer Series 2022
Final results of Summer Series 2022
Name | Overall Position | 3km Time | 5km Time | 5 mile | 10 km | Overall Time |
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Richie Lynch | 1 | 00:11:53 | 00:21:15 | 00:33:55 | 00:43:39 | 01:50:42 |
Stephen Collins | 2 | 00:12:40 | 00:20:15 | 00:35:01 | 00:43:23 | 01:51:19 |
John Mulcahy | 3 | 00:11:21 | 00:21:03 | 00:35:04 | 00:45:18 | 01:52:46 |
Chris O'Connell | 4 | 00:11:43 | 00:21:38 | 00:37:09 | 00:46:32 | 01:57:02 |
Kieran Harte | 5 | 00:12:08 | 00:22:00 | 00:36:41 | 00:46:45 | 01:57:34 |
Kevin Hayes | 6 | 00:12:36 | 00:22:43 | 00:36:48 | 00:45:55 | 01:58:02 |
Breda Lynch | 7 | 00:12:45 | 00:23:14 | 00:37:55 | 00:48:33 | 02:02:27 |
Ted O'Leary | 8 | 00:12:45 | 00:24:56 | 00:38:27 | 00:47:35 | 02:03:43 |
Kieran Murphy | 9 | 00:12:34 | 00:22:50 | 00:39:04 | 00:50:59 | 02:05:27 |
Paul O'Flynn | 10 | 00:12:48 | 00:23:14 | 00:40:35 | 00:49:01 | 02:05:38 |
Frances Barry | 11 | 00:13:43 | 00:24:03 | 00:38:59 | 00:49:51 | 02:06:36 |
Denis McCarthy | 12 | 00:13:20 | 00:23:58 | 00:39:46 | 00:49:48 | 02:06:52 |
Laura O'Flynn | 13 | 00:13:02 | 00:23:25 | 00:40:35 | 00:51:32 | 02:08:34 |
Noreen Daly | 14 | 00:14:58 | 00:27:19 | 00:45:40 | 00:56:30 | 02:24:27 |
Fiona Fitzgerald | 15 | 00:16:25 | 00:29:40 | 00:53:02 | 01:01:15 | 02:40:22 |
Aisling Collins | 16 | 00:15:54 | 00:29:09 | 00:55:25 | 01:08:11 | 02:48:39 |
East Cork Track Championships 2022
Entries are now open for the East Cork Athletics Division Senior, Junior & Master T&F Championships on Tuesday, 21st June at Colaiste an Chroi Naofa, Carraig na Bhfear.
This is always a fun night and a great opportunity for people to try their hand at T&F in a relaxing atmosphere as well as giving the more seasoned track athletes a chance to see how their training is going.
Can club/competition secretary’s email entries to gerfoley5@gmail.com. Closing date Saturday, 18th June by 10 pm.
Races confined to AAI registered athletes with clubs affiliated to the East Cork Athletics Division.
Entry Fee €5.00. Entry Fee will be taken at the gate.
You can also get a taste of what to expect in the following video courtesy of Carraig na bhFear AC: Video
There are events from 100m up to 3000m for Junior, Senior and Masters Men and Women.
2021 Club Awards
Last week, St Catherine AC held their Athletes of the Year Awards for 2021.
It was a tremendous season for the many athletes from Little Athletics all the way up to Senior level.
The two Little Athletics award winners for most improved were Nina Simmonds and Callum Geary.
In the under 9-10 age category, Leah Pyne and Adam Fitzgerald were the award winners.
Zach Pyne and Lara Byrne were the under 11-12 category recipients.
The 13+ age category covers the older age category and the most improved performers are Mia Keane and Cian Dunning.
Our Senior winners are Sarah Mulcahy and Jim Harty.
And lastly, our Overall Athlete of the Year is Kenneth O’Connell.
Kenneth,had a tremendous season, winning County, placed in Munster and his first All-Ireland Cross Country and winning his own age category All Ireland Cross Country. He also recently won the Indoor 600 metre championships in Athlone It was incredible running for such a young athlete and a credit to his hard work and his great passion for the sport. Hearty congratulations to Kenneth and all the award winners from everyone at the club and a special word of gratitude to all the coaches and officials for keeping the show on the road.
All of the award winners were presented their trophies by Kevin Hayes, Chairman of the club and their respective coaches, Paddy, Dave, Mike & Eoin, Kieran & Frank, and Trevor.