Kerryman Article 14/4/08

There were five medals for Kerry athletes at the 2nd weekend of the 
Woodie’s DIY Juvenile Indoor championships in Nenagh, with Farranfore
Maine Valley taking three of them. Siblings Niall (U19) and Emma
Prendiville (U16) both took gold in their 1500m walks and club mate Daniel
Clifford made it a trio of gold’s winning the U19 shot with a putt over 1m
longer than the silver placed athlete. Andrew Kearney of Tralee Harriers
had a clear jump at 1.88m to take the gold in the U18 high jump and the
only other Kerry medal winner was Eilish Fitzpatrick of Gneeveguilla who
narrowly missed out on first place to take silver in the U18 200m. Well
done also to James Lyne, Sophie Wolff and Connor Slattery (all St Brendans
AC), Eoin O’Muircheartaigh (Lios Tuathail), Danny O’Connor (Tralee
Harriers), Denis Hayes (Farranfore/Maine Valley), and Julie Prendiville
(Estuary AC) who put in a huge amount of effort but didn’t make the medals
this time.

The Kilnaboy 10 mile road race is the 4th and final race in the Munster 10
mile 'Classic' series. It was held on Sunday last.
It is one of the oldest 10 mile road races in the country, outside of
Ballycotton. The slightly undulating circuit through the Burren poses a
fair but tough challenge.
Donal O’Callaghan (An Ríocht) has been impressive over the series and put
in a great time of 54.45 to finish 4th in the race and took himself to 2nd
place in the 4 race series. Eoin McKenna (An Ríocht) , was 6th in 56.40.
In the Over 45s, Tom Shanahan again An Ríocht finished 1st,in 1.01.46 hrs,
he is having a great season. Gneeveguilla had four runners competing,
Robert Tate finished in 67 mins, Olivia Fitzgerald 83 mins, Mary O’Connell
and Nora Flynn 90mins. Mary was using the race as a training run for her
trip to the US next weekend for the  Boston Marathon so good luck for
that. (photo of Donal O’Callaghan)

Next Sunday (20th April) is the Farranfore Maine Valley Open Sports which
will be at the An Riocht Track in Castleisland. The program of events is
as follows

11.00 Hammers U18B, Javelin U15G
11.30 Hammer U18G, Javelin U15B
12.00 Hammer U15B, Javelin U17G
12.30 Hammer U15G, Javelin U17B

12.00 Confined Events
1.00 Main Programme

Confined Events
U12 60m
U14 100m

Full Programme of Events (either use text or table attached)
U6 40m
U8 60m
U9 60m 200m relay
U10 60m 200m Ball Throw
U11 60m 200m Relay
U12 60m 600m Ball Throw
U13 100m 600m Long Jump Relay
U14 100m 800m Shot High Jump
U15 100m Long Jump Discus Javelin Hammer Relay
U16 100m 800m High Jump
U17 Discus Javelin Relay
U18 100m 800m Hammer Shot (B)
Jun 1500m Long Jump Discus Mixed Relay
Sen 100m 1500m Shot High Jump (M)
Mast 100m 35lbs (M)


Events coming up
Sun 20th AAI 10K Road Race Championships Galway
Friday 25th April County Road Race Gneeveguilla starts at 8pm
Sat/Sun 26th/27th AAI Congress
May
Sun 4th,11th, 18th County Juvenile Championships, Castleisland
Mon 5th Munster Master, Juniors & U23 T&F Championships Cork
Sun 11th Spar Mile Challenge TBC
Sat 17th Munster Schools T&F Championships Limerick