Balllyroan 5k Cullahill 12/05/2017
Great numbers out once again this week from Portlaoise AC. First Lady home 4th week in a row was Grace Reilly in 19:08. First male home for Portlaoise was Niall Collins in 20:37, followed by Anna Duggan 22:13, Alex McDonald 22:36, Olwyn Larkin, 22:49, John Broderick 23:06, Lucy Dunne 24:36, Martina Delaney 25:27, Noreen Daly 26:04, Sinead Curtis 28:38, Margaret Mary Grant, 28:40, Tracy Gavin, 28:41, Sarah Conroy, 28:42. Well done to you all. Final race in this series is Friday 2nd June in Ballyroan.
Vicarstown Park run 20/05/2017
Our senior athletes this week we had Trevor McCormack in 3rd place in 19:09. Robert Grant was next to finish also with a PB of 22:38, followed by Lucy Dunne in 24:46, Patricia Naughton 25:05, Elaine Moore 27:52, Martina Gardiner 30:28, Clare Cosgrave in 31:44.
Our junior athletes this week along with Fionn Marum, were David Faulkner & Luke Gibney running in this week’s park run, Fionn won the race followed by David Faulkner (New P.B.) and Luke Gibney who also took a massive 1 minute off his P.B. Super running by the lads.
Portlaoise Community Games
There was a great turnout from the club at the Portlaoise community games area finals with over 30 club Juveniles getting through to the county finals on 11th June in St. Abbans. Well done to all and all results can be found on Laois community games website. Best of luck in the finals.
Three of U/16 boys were out in force for the Portlaoise area community games, William Conroy had a great night winning 3 gold medals, Jack Delaney came home with 3 bronze and 1 gold medal and, Tiarnán Marum won 4 silver medals. Great performance by all the lads.
Portlaoise Community College Awards
Well done to Fionn Marum who won Male Senior athlete of the year in Portlaoise college, Fionn has run well for the college all year winning the Laois schools cross country, leading the team to bronze and winning the recent schools 5K, all this despite being injured for a while. Well done Fionn.
Ballyragget 10k 21/05/2017
Olwyn Larkin was second female today in 46:10 followed by Maria Cuddy in 47:00 mins.
Killenard 5k 21/05/2017
Well done to Martina Delaney 1st lady today in killenard today in 25:22 followed by Ailish Kelly in 28:54.
Rathdowney 5k 21/05/2017
Well done to Alex and Jack and also the Delaneys, Anne, Jack, Kate and Tom who all had great runs on a tough 5K in Rathdowney on Sunday for a great cause.
Stoneyford 10k 21/05/2017
Noel Marum was 1st is his category on Stoneyford in 37:20 and Grace Reilly was 2nd Female in a 39:31. Well done to you both.
Bob Heffernan 5k Enfield 23/05/2017
All male athletes in Enfield. 1st to Finish for Portlaoise was Tony Reilly in 15:56 1st in his category and 9th overall, James Hamm was 16:16, Cryil 16:31, Colm Fitzgerald 17:02 and Richie Reid 17:12. Well done lads.
