A sizeable contingent of Donore athletes made the trip to Kilcock to take part in the Kilcock 5K hosted by St. Coca’s AC. No doubt many of them were in search of PBs on a course that has a reputation for being flat and quick. There were some great performances with Mark Dooley leading the Donore pack with a 5th place finish in 15:37. Rossa Hurley who has made great progress recently was just 10 seconds off Mark and finished in 8th place with 15:47. Aisling Swaine was the first Donore woman home in 18:16. Juniors Paul O’Neill and Michael Gibbs also took part and finished in 4th and 6th respectively in the men’s junior category. Paul was chasing a fast time and was hoping to break the 17 minute barrier. He clocked exactly 17:00 with Michael running south of 18mins with 17:56. The men’s race was won by Peter Somba of Dunboyne AC in 14:56 with Orla Drumm (Crusaders AC) taking the women’s race with 16:32. Well done to all. Donore results are as follows:

5th Mark DOOLEY 15:37
8th Rossa HURLEY 15:47
17th Eoin HANNON 16:21
23rd Philip HENNESSY 16:26
24th Fergal WHITTY 16:27
30th Sean FOX 16:32
34th Fergal SWAINE 16:37
48th Patrick Byrne 16:59
49th Paul O’NEILL 17:00 (4th Jnr)
50th Andrew WILSON 17:03
56th Alan FARRELL 17:10
72nd Michael GIBBS 17:56 (6th Jnr)
86th Aisling Swaine 18:16 (7th FS)
87th Ollie Kearney 18:17
128th Gareth MACCAULY 19:12
145th Sinead GRAHAM 19:29(18th FS)
244th Jona KALEM 22:21 (53rd FS)
373rd Angela MCKEENA 28:16 (122nd FS)

Many more Donore athletes will be taking part in Santry this weekend at the Glo Health Senior National Track and Field Championships. The very best of luck to them. Hopefully the weekend weather will be kind to athletes who are still hunting European and Olympic qualifying times Starting. Entries for Saturday and Sunday’s competitions can be found HERE.

Finally we wish Sean Lawlor the very best of luck this weekend. Sean is in Mannheim, Germany competing with the Irish 4x100m Junior team. Best of luck also to Andie, Alex, Max and Kolade competing for their schools tomorrow in the Tailteann games.