Kerry: Results of the Run Ballybunion Half-Marathon, 10k & 5k - Sat 4th Apr 2026

The annual Run Ballybunion Half-Marathon, 10k & 5k was held on Saturday 4th April 2026. 

As the chart shows above, the numbers for the 5k and half were up and the 10k numbers were down.

The combined numbers for all three events were almost identical to 2025 . It seems very likely that the lack of growth was due to the fact that there were so many other events in Kerry that weekend like the Killarney 5-mile and the Valentia Half-Marathon & 10k.

5k - Top 3 men & women...

1 Daniel O'Connor 787 M M40 19:50 

2 Jonathan Markham 400 M MS 20:28 
3 Alex Osullivan 584 M MS 20:28
4 Grace O Donnell 667 F FS 21:25
9 Caragh Treacy 594 F FS 22:39
17 Olivia Lynch 580 F FS 24:27

10k - Top 3 men & women...
1 John Fitzgerald 394 M MS 35:54 
2 Pádraig O Donnell 498 M MS 35:57 
3 Sean Stokes 541 M MS 36:02 
7 Claire Coleman 511 F FS 41:01 
21 Gillian Walsh 358 F F40 45:35 
23 Sarah Leahy 538 F FS 46:25 

Half-Marathon - Top 5 men & women...
1 Pierce Geoghegan 939 M M40 01:12:23 
2 Enda Mc Gonigle 850 M MS 01:28:15 
3 Mark Harnett 910 M M40 01:28:38 
4 Seamus Murphy 950 M M50 01:30:16  
5 Piaras Leahy 938 M M40 01:31:07 
12 Holly Brennan 869 F FS 01:35:23 
19 Lisa Griffen 973 F F40 01:39:17 
22 Áine Phelan 790 F F40 01:39:28 
25 Ailbhe Bergin 788 F FS 01:40:16 
26 Maurice Falvey 981 F FS 01:41:06 

Full  results for all three races HERE

Clare: Results of the Great Ennis 10k & 5k - Sun 29th Mar 2026

Top 3 women in the 10k

The Great Ennis 10k & 5k was held in Co Clare on Sunday 29th of March on what turned out to be a very wet day. Unusually, the overall numbers were exactly the same as last year... 339 in 2026 and 339 in 2025.

The only difference was that the 10k numbers decreased from 208 to 202 while the 5k numbers increased from 131 to 137.

Top 3 men & women in the 10k...
1 Liam Naughton 175 M Ennis Track A.C. MS 31:31
2 Padraig Nugent 235 M Ennis Track A.C. MS 32:32
3 Jamie Kelly 140 M MS 32:52
9 Eimear O Leary 92 F Galway City Harriers A.C. F40 37:57
11 Ellen Bermingham 97 F South Galway A.C. FS 38:40
18 Becky Coughlan 20 F Ennis Track A.C. F40 39:27

Top 3 men & women in the 5k
1 Daithi O Leary 347 M Ennis Track A.C. MJ 16:38
2 Briain Breslin 330 M MS 17:11
3 Stephen Holloway 921 M MS 17:13
6 Ciara O Neill 340 F Clonmel A.C. FS 17:44
9 Siobhan Healy 800 F Ennis Track A.C. FJ 19:19
18 Ally Considine 315 F Ennis Track A.C. FJ 20:31

Full results of both races HERE

Results of the Brickey 5k in West Waterford - Sun 12th Nov 2023

A total of 93 runners turned out for the Murray Pharmacy Brickey 5k near Dungarvan in Co Waterford on Sunday 12th November 2023.

Top 3 men & women...

1 FITZGERALD, Evan Clonmel A.C. Male Senior 15:29
2 ZAKIS, Raivis West Waterford A.C. Male 40 17:26
3 GIBSON, Alan Individual Male 40 18:12 05:51.4
7 VEALE, Kate West Waterford A.C. Female Senior 19:11
13 DROHAN, Eveleen West Waterford A.C. Female 45 20:16
14 TOBIN, Angela West Waterford A.C. Female 35 20:43

Full results HERE

Kerry: Results of the Farranfore 5k - 26th Dec 2021

This years Farrranfore 5k on St Stephen's Day attracted a field of 301 runners. While this is down 6% on the number for the last outing in December of 2019, it's still only a small drop and a good number of runners for a 5k race in Co Kerry.

First 3 men & women...
1 15:13 Oisin Spillane M Sen Tralee Harriers
2 15:58 Derek Griffin M Sen 
3 16:02 Aogán MacDomhnaill M Sen West Limerick AC
1 16:05 Michelle Finn F Sen Leevale AC
2 16:19 Sorcha Ní Dhomhnaill F Sen Donore Harriers
3 17:20 Niamh O'Mahony F Sen An Ríocht

Results HERE

First 3 women (L-R) 2nd Sorcha Ní Dhomhnaill, 1st Michelle Finn, 3rd Niamh O'Mahony

Waterford: Results of the Butlerstown 5k road race - Sun 17th Oct 2021

With road races now reappearing on the calendar, the Butlerstown 5k was held on Sunday the 17th of October 2021. There were a total of 128 finishers.

Report from the Waterford County PRO... Butlerstown 5 KM a great success.

160 competed in the SE2 sponsored Butlerstown 5 Km Road Race  on Sunday morning last and up front  it was dominated by three young members of Waterford AC, Harry Colbert ,Matteo Mary and Aidan Burke, From the gun Colbert took the field along and with a half or mile or so to go he put daylight between Matteo Mary and himself but Mary came with a renewed effort late on to join Colbert close home but Harry just  shaded it at the line winning in a time of 14 minutes 40.9 seconds  with Mary second in 14.41.3. and  Burke back in third on 14.57.2 and with five prizes the 4th and 5th athletes home were David Mahon Slaney Olympic 15.17,7 and Pat Hennessy West Waterford in 15.29.7. 

Ruth Fitzgerald also Waterford AC won the ladies section in 16.49.2  with her clubmate Ruth Heery second  in 17.13.7. and Kate Veale West Waterford was third in 18.34.01.the 4h and 5th prize winners were Emer Mc Glynn Waterford in 18.38.8 and Louise Morgan Ferrybank 19.23.2  

Spot prizes were also distributed down the line.A  sincere thank you from the organisers to the Gardai whose presence at these events  around our County is very much appreciated, sponsors, the stewards from Waterford AC and Butlerstown GAA and Butlerstown GAA Committee for providing their facility and all involved in the organisation prior to and on the day led by Vinnie Codd .

County PRO

17/10/2021

Kerry: Results of the Kilmoyley Tidy Towns 5k & 10k - Sun 31st June 2019

 

As the chart shows, the number seemed to be well down this year.

Tidy Towns Kilmoyley 5k & 10k Fun Run Results

Tipperary : Results of the BK5k in Dundrum - Wed 1st May 2019

There was a big turnout for 426 runners for this years Brendan Kinane 5k road race in Dundrum near Cashel. The winner of the men's race was Sean Doyle (#86) of North Cork AC who set a new course record of 14m 53s.

1     Sean Doyle     North Cork AC     14:53     SM     86
2     Paddy Cummins     Coolcroo AC     15:51     SM     152
3     Gareth McGlinchey     Dundrum Ac     16:16     SM     14
15     Siobhan O Doherty     Borrisokane AC     17:23     SF     100
21     Dymphna Ryan     Dundrum AC     17:49     SF     60
46     Kealey Tideswell     Clonmel AC     18:59     F35     231

Results

Kerry : Results of the Castleisland 10 mile & 5k - Sun 14th Apr 2019

Despite the wet and windy weather, the numbers were up for this years Kingdom Come 10 mile and 5 k road race. As can be seen below, the 10 mile numbers at 220 were the second highest to date.

What's even more remarkable was how well the race did despite the sheer number of races that were clashing with it. There were other 10 milers on the same day in Dromina, Co Cork, Kilnaboy in Co Clare and Killea in Co Tipperary and that's not even counting the glut of other races in Munster.

It was probably the busiest day of 2019 so far for races in Munster.

10 mile - top 5
1     SENIOR     Gavin SWEENEY (#296)     00:52:46     00:52:46
2     O40     Tim O CONNOR (#291)     00:55:51     00:55:51
3     O40     Donal O CALLAGHAN (#164)     00:56:11     00:56:11
4     Donal WHITE (#267)     00:56:14     00:56:14     SENIOR (2)     Male  (4)
5     Tony HARTY (#286)     00:58:09     00:58:09     O40 (3)     Male  (5)  
1     O40     Deirdre NAGLE (#253)     01:06:42     01:06:42
2     O40     Michelle O REAGAN (#290)     01:08:26     01:08:26
3     O40     Catriona BARRY (#237)     01:09:25     01:09:25
53     Elaine O KEEFFE (#288)     01:14:31     01:14:30     O40 (4)     Female  (4)
59     Mary Anne MURPHY (#146)     01:16:53     01:16:48     SENIOR (1)     Female  (5)

10 mile results

5k - top 3
1 Eddie O CONNOR (#652) 00:16:21     SENIOR (1)     Male  (1)
2 Conor O MAHONY (#670) 00:16:26     SENIOR (2)     Male  (2)
3 Arthur FITZGERALD (#590) 00:17:00     SENIOR (3)     Male  (3)
5 Niamh O MAHONY (#610) 00:18:01     Junior (1)     Female  (1)
14 Niamh DE HORA (#602) 00:19:03     SENIOR (1)     Female  (2)
16 Mary DALY (#667) 00:19:19     O40 (1)     Female  (3)

5k results

Photos...
1) Ray Smith has a gallery HERE
2) Peter Murphy has a large gallery HERE
3) Maine Valley Post have a gallery HERE
4) Castleisland Camera Club have a gallery HERE 

Clare : Results of the Kilkee Sub Aqua 5k & 10k - Mon 31st Dec 2018

Kilkee Sub Aqua 5k & 10k at the Bandstand Kilkee Co Clare Monday 31 December 2018.
Provisional Results for All Competitors in finish order.    Race    Race
    1    0:19:07    GERARD DUNNE,     St Johns AC    M 5K    54    1
    2    0:20:46    CONOR MC GIBNEY,     Spa Fenit Barrow Killarney    M 5K    303    2
    3    0:21:07    BARRY COLEMAN,     West Clare Tri Club    M 5K    4    3
    4    0:22:02    LIAM KEANE,     St Johns AC    M 5K    164    4
    5    0:22:03    GER KEANE,     St Johns AC    M 5K    163    5
    6    0:22:58    GEORGE COMERFORD,     Dunboyne A C    M 5K    25    6
    7    0:23:00    MARIE HOWARD,     West Clare Tri Club    F 5k    41    7
    8    0:24:48    TIM FRAWLEY,     Limerick    M 5K    102    8
    9    0:25:20    JAMES HOWARD,     Kilkee    M 5K    34    9
    10    0:26:03    JESSICA MC GIBNEY,     Spa Fenit  Barrow Killarney    F 5k    154    10
    11    0:26:14    WILLIE KEANE,     St Johns AC    M 5K    165    11
    12    0:26:29    OISIN MC GIBNEY,     Spa Fenit  Barrow Killarney    M 5K    153    12
    13    0:26:35    JOHN O NEILL,     Kilkee    M 5K    33    13
    14    0:27:32    ELIZABETH COMERFORD,     Dunboyne A C    F 5k    24    14
    15    0:27:52    JANE DUFFIELD,     West Clare Tri Club    F 5k    39    15
    16    0:27:58    SENAN O BRIEN,     Cooraclare    M 5K    59    16
    17    0:28:37    SEAN ROCHE,     St Johns AC    M 5K    72    17
    18    0:29:06    BRYAN ROCHE,     St Johns AC    M 5K    74    18
    19    0:29:22    EILEEN FINN,     Lough Derg Sub Aqua    F 5k    15    19
    20    0:29:22    KEVIN FINN,     Lough Derg Sub Aqua    M 5K    16    20
    21    0:29:41    LISA O NEILL,     kildare    F 5k    30    21
    22    0:29:46    EMMA FRAWLEY,     Limerick    F 5k    101    22
    23    0:30:06    LIAM CAREY,     Kilkee    M 5K    87    23
    24    0:30:07    FRANK CAREY,     Kilkee    M 5K    84    24
    25    0:30:14    KATE ROCHE,     St Johns AC    F 5k    73    25
    26    0:30:27    MARIE WALSH,     Cooraclare    F 5k    48    26
    27    0:31:49    FIONA COMERFORD,     Dunboyne A C    F 5k    23    27
    28    0:33:52    DEBORAH HICKEY,     Kilkee    F 5k    103    28
    29    0:33:54    ASSUMPTA CONCANNON,     Kilkee    F 5k    71    29
    30    0:33:55    ALAN LANE,     Meath    M 5K    32    30
    31    0:34:04    JOAN MC NAMARA,     Kilkee    F 5k    58    31
    32    0:35:11    DAIRE GARVEY,     West Clare Tri Club    M 5K    52    32
    33    0:36:39    BRENDA HANRAHAN,     Shannon    F 5k    46    33
    34    0:37:13    CLARA GRIFFIN,     Limerick    F 5k    13    34
    35    0:37:41    UNA BRITTON,     Kilcoole    F 10k    26    35
    36    0:38:50    JOHN KEOGH,     Kilmihil    M 10k    31    36

Notice...Brickey 5k nr Dungarvan in Waterford - Sun 4th Nov 2018

This 5km race organised by West Waterford AC is coming up at the Brickey GAA grounds on Sunday the 4th of November 2018. For anyone familiar with the Dungarvan 10 course then the GAA grounds are near the 5 mile mark which is just to the west of the town.

Info on WWAC website.... http://www.westwaterfordathletics.org/Event/37-senior/2018/11/04/17539-25th-annual-brickey-5k.html

You can enter online HERE or on the day of the race.

Tipperary : Results of the Brendan Kinane 5k in Dundrum... Wed 2nd May 2018

This 5k race organised by Dundrum AC in Tipperary attracted a huge field of 501 runners, a jump of 7.7% on the figure for 2017. As races go, this is well above the norm for what would be expected for a race in a quiet rural location.

1 Sean Doyle     An Bru AC     15:13     SM     18
2 David Ryan     Clonmel AC     16:03     SM     1
3 Dermot Hayes     Dundrum AC     16:08     SM     17
25 Grainne O Callaghan     North Cork AC     18:42     SF     136
29 Shona O flynn     Dooneen AC     18:53     SF     464
50 Aine Roche     Clonmel AC     19:33     SF     2

Brendan Kinane 5K Race Results

Photos...
1) Susan Parker Laste has a gallery HERE

Copy of the results below...

Clare...Results of the Whitegate 5k & 10k - Mon 1st May 2017

The Dinny Ryan Memorial 10k & 5k Fun Run was held in Whitegate, Co Clare on Monday 1st May 2017 and 220 adults & children took part. See the results below...

Clare...Results of the Christmas Cracker 5k, Ennis - Tues 27th Dec 2016

305 people took part in this 5k in Ennis on the 27th of Dec 2016.

1    0:17:52    SCOTT WATSON,     Hyde Park Harriers    M
2    0:18:15    ANTHONY SHARKEY,     Ennis Track AC    M
3    0:18:44    ALAN BYRNES,     Tulla    M
9    0:20:35    SHONA O FLYNN,     Ind.    F
12    0:20:40    ANNE MARIE CONNELLAN,     Ennis Track AC    F
13    0:21:03    VERENA TARPEY,     Dooneen AC    F 

Full results below...

Clare...Results of the Miltown Malbay Santa 5k - Mon 26th Dec 2016

145 runners took part in this 5k race in Miltown Malbay on the 26th of Dec 2016.

1 16:10    BARRY DONOVAN,     Leevale AC    M
2 16:31    JULIO CESAR CASTRO,     Kilmurry Ibrickane/North Clare    M
3 16:42    THOMAS GARRAHY,     Kilmurry Ibrickane/North Clare    M
5 18:57    SHARON RYNNE,     Kilmurry Ibrickane/North Clare    F
14 20:07    NOREEN MACKEY,     Kilmurry Ibrickane/North Clare    F
17 21:09    DYMPNA O DWYER,     Kilmurry Ibrickane/North Clare    F

Full results below...

Notice...Kilsheelan 5k & 10k in Tipperary - Sun 11th Sept 2016

This 5k and 10k race in Kilsheelan, Co. Tipperary is coming up on Sunday the 11th of Sept 2016. It is organised in association with Clonmel AC.

For anyone who is unsure of where Kilsheelan is, it is located between Clonmel and Carrick-on-Suir.

Limerick...Results of the Ballysteen 10k - Sat 16th Apr 2016

A total of 63 people took part in this race in Ballysteen in Co.Limerick...27 in the 10k and 36 in the 5k.

Race Position    Name    Race No    Time    Club/Address
1    Carmody, Michael    309    33.07    An Bru AC
2    Cremin, JJ    266    37.36    An Bru AC
3    Hayes, Don    312    39.32    0
4    Burke, John    270    41.43    0
5    Culligan, Selenia    275    42.41    Fergus AC
6    Cremin, Michael    265    43.00    An Bru AC
7    Sheedy, Bryan    311    43.11    0
8    Culligan, Anthony    274    44.23    Fergus AC
9    O'Connell, Pat    313    45.45    0
10    McNamara, Gerard    281    46.26    0
11    Quirke, Seamus    278    46.33    0
12    Dennigan, Tom    272    47.29    0
13    Lawlor, Dympna    273    47.5    West Limerick
14    Mulcahy, Niamh    315    48.15    West Limerick
15    Fitzgerald, Seamus    277    48.17    0
16    McCarty, Michael    271    48.32    West Limerick
17    Neville, Pakie    331    49.15    0
18    Clancy, Brian    276    49.36    0
19    Sheehy, Pat    290    50.37    0
20    Sheehy, Niall    310    50.40    0
21    O'Regan, Jeni    267    51.10    West Limerick
22    Carrig, Olivia    316    52.52    0
23    Lenihan, Kevin    284    55.31    0
24    Stokes, AnneMarie    285    55.31    0
25    Sheehy, Edel    269    56.19    0
26    Hartigan, John    268    56.20    0
27    Leahy, Noelle    314    57.05    West Limerick

5k Result           
Race Position    Name    Race No    Time
1    Ryan, Anthony    287    21.15
2    Ranahan, Mark    279    21.27
3    Murphy, Padraic    327    23.27
4    O'Brien, Emmet    334    24.38
5    Vial, Emily    339    26.28
6    Heelan, Mike    333    28.02
7    Moroney, Caroline    286    31.5
8    Foley, Tara    288    33.32
9    Stokes, Breda    283    34.35
10    Shanahan, Theresa    337    37.04
11    Shanahan, Ciara    338    37.04
12    Dunne, Johnny    292    40.50
13    Magner, Eimear    289    43.28
14    Ranahan, Mary    332    43.28
15    Maune, Diane    319    44.28
16    Fitzgerald, Evelyn    318    44.28
17    Fitrzgerald, Anna    317    44.28
18    Costelloe, Evan    295    47.59
19    Mulcahy, Maeve    330    47.59
20    James Daly    298    46.30
21    Meehan, Lisa    336    46.30
22    Gammell, Brian    299    46.30
23    Mulcahy, Deirdre    328    48.00
24    Mulcahy, Fionn    329    48.00
24    Shanahan, Rosie    296    50.34
25    Shanahan, Lilly    297    50.34
26    Costelloe, Rachel    294    50.34
27    Maune, Emma    321    51.33
28    Maune, Jack    320    51.33
29    Maune, Sarah    322    51.33
30    Costelloe, Siobhan    293    51.56
31    Anglim, Biddy    335    54.36
32    O'Shaughnessy, Kathleen    323   
33    O'Shaughnessy, Conor    324   
34    McGrath, Mary    282   
35    Condon, Oonagh    325   
36    Condon, Paddy    326

Notice...Ger Daly Fundrasing 5k in Killarney - Sun 6th Dec 2015

To buy a new purpose built sports wheelchair, the runners of Kerry, hosts Killarney Valley AC and members of the track project at the schools in Killarney are holding a 5k run to help Ger Daly, one of the few wheelchair athletes in the Kingdom.

The target is to purchase the chair and donate surplus money to the schools track project. The South/East Kerry community track ltd (non profit) is for persons who are able bodied and persons of disability.

Here are the details of the event.
Event: Ger Daly fundraiser predict your time 5k run
Venue:killarney national park(knockreer)
Date: December 6th
Time: 2pm
Entries: on the day
Fee: €10
Race director:Jo Harty
Contact:Jo Harty or Jerh Griffin 0876879186
Killarney Valley AC have obtained an Athletics Ireland permit for this event.

From Ger Daly.....They say that the longest journey starts with a single step. Well, as a wheelchair-user, my journey to achieving a degree of fitness that I was happy with didn’t start literally with a single step, but with a VERY short push on the road near my home.

It was July of 2012. I was thirty years old, and the closest I had come for many years to being physically active was watching a game of soccer on the television or attending a Kerry football game. Sure, I had thrown the odd basketball at a ring at the back of my house as a youngster, or played my own brand of soccer with friends (using my fists to control the ball and “shoot”). I had even broken my wrist around the age of eleven or twelve when I fulfilled the role of goalkeeper while my older brother and a friend of his took pot shots at me at home. But, as local children of my age began to drift away as the years passed, I found that, due to a lack of independence, I became increasingly isolated in the remote community where I lived. No physical activity, little or no regular interaction with the outside world. There were times when, as I look back on it now, I know depression set in.

I was living at home with my parents, where virtually everything was done for me, and I had never really taken any notice of, or pride in, my physical appearance. When I reflect on it now and see photographs of myself from those days, I can see that it would have been obvious to others that I was making little or no effort to consciously keep myself healthy. I just didn’t really concern myself with such things, for whatever reason. Looking at those photographs now, it is embarrassing to see the state I was in. I didn’t know it at the time but I weighed at least eighteen stone, if not more, and was only going in one direction – the wrong way. In some ways, in terms of maintaining my general health and in particular my weight, I was up against it on two fronts. Not only did my disability and lack of an opportunity to engage in physical activity deprive me of an outlet to maintain some degree of physical fitness, but my parents also owned a small country shop, where I basically had free rein to plunder all manner of sweet treats whenever I wanted, as often as I wanted. It was a “perfect storm” of circumstances that was never likely to yield positive results.

Had events turned out differently, I would probably still be in that rut. In fact, had events turned out differently I could easily have found myself in a very precarious situation. But, as the saying goes: “It’s an ill wind that doesn’t blow some good.” My memory would not be the best, so in terms of tying down the exact sequence of events I couldn’t swear that this is exactly how my journey to fitness started, but it is generally accurate. In the late spring/early summer of 2012 my mother, on whom I was heavily reliant went to hospital in Cork to have a procedure carried out in connection with a medical condition she has lived with for many years. While my mother was in hospital I suffered from a fungal infection on my toes which required a visit to my GP. During my visit, the subject of my weight and fitness came up, and my GP described me as being borderline diabetic. When you hear a medical professional referring to your physical state in those terms, you would have to be an idiot not to at least make an effort to do something about it. So I did. 

In July of 2012 my Dad helped me to weigh myself using an industrial weighing scales that he had kept since his days of running the country shop, when it would have been used to weigh bags of animal food stuffs. I had to sit on this weighing scales, and from where I was I couldn’t see the gauges where he was calculating my weight, so I had to take his word when he told me what it was (and this would become an issue in the ensuing months when I sometimes wondered if he was telling me my actual weight or leading me to believe that I might have been a couple of pounds over my actual weight in order to keep me working hard). On that first day I weighed exactly eighteen stone, at least according to my Dad!

I had asked my GP and also a dietitian he had referred me to, who I admittedly only attended once because I wouldn’t be great for following the advice of someone like that, what my ideal weight should be but unfortunately neither seemed able to do so. At least, that is how I remember it. So I set myself a target of getting down to fourteen stone. Why fourteen? I have no idea. It was just something to aim for. Completely unrealistic, but a target nonetheless.

So it was that around this time I embarked on that VERY short push that I mentioned at the beginning. I planned to push myself to a neighbour’s house and back, a round trip of about 400 metres. I didn’t make it. I got home after about fifteen minutes with my tail between my legs. As I was unemployed at the time I was able to dedicate a lot of time to trying to get fit and persistence eventually paid off and I got to a point where I was pushing myself to the nearest town land and home again, a distance of about 8 or 9 kilometres, maybe two or three days a week. I was lucky in that I lived right on a four-cross roads and each road offered varying degrees of difficulty so I was able to try one road for a few months until I started to find it too easy and then move on to traveling on another road. All of this was done using my regular everyday wheelchair, which at that time I had already owned for nine years.

I weighed myself weekly, usually on a Thursday, and in early August 2013 I took a major step in my evolution. I traveled the forty-four kilometres to Annascaul to participate in my first ever 5km road race, using my everyday wheelchair. I completed it in approximately fifty-seven minutes and followed it up with the best-tasting lunch ever in Tom Crean’s pub, The South Pole Inn. Celebrating the beginning of my adventure in the home of another adventurer! I even had dessert, my reward for the effort I had put in!

I reached my goal of fourteen stone in May 2013, having lost four stone in nine-and-a-half months. I then reassessed my target and decided to aim for twelve stone, simply because if I reached that point I would have lost one-third of my body weight, which I thought would be a pretty cool thing to be able to say! I achieved this is May 2014, after twenty-one months of hard graft.

I had been using the athletics track at the An Riocht Athletics Club in Castleisland on-and-off for exercise and through my use of their facilities I started to become aware of other fun-run and road race events around the county. I have competed in road races held by An Riocht over the last two years, as well as the Feet First and Gneeveguilla Athletic Club’s 5k series. At the beginning of 2015 I had completed twenty-three races in seventeen months and as the year progressed I set myself a goal of doubling this tally and having forty-six races completed by the end of the year. Unfortunately it looks like I may just fail to achieve this as some of the events I had planned to compete in have recently been postponed.

At the time of writing, I have now completed forty races, including four 10ks, and I completed my first 10-miler in Killarney in late September in just over two hours. My exercise regime has tailed off significantly since I went through the process of trying to lose six stone and, as I am now working and don’t have as much free time for exercise as I used to, I am now doing one 5km push per week, as well as any races that I take part in. However, my hope is that a wheelchair that is designed for racing will encourage me to put more effort into it again, as it will make it far easier than using a twelve year old chair that was not designed to be used for exercising.

Considering that I have completed a 10-miler in the chair I am currently using I would be hoping that using a specialist racing chair will broaden my options in terms of the length of races I could compete in.

Clare...Results of the Kilmurry-Ibrickane GAA 5k run - Sun 19th Apr 2015

Kilmurry Ibrickane Minor GAA Club 5k Road Race and Fun Walk in Quilty Co. Clare Sunday 19 April 2015.

1 16:29    JULIO CESAR F CASTRO,     Kilmurry Ibrickane/North ClareM
2 19:31    JIMMY DOWNES,     Kilmurry Ibrickane/North ClareM
3 19:47    AARON KELLY,     St Marys AC    M
7 21:36    LUCY FLANAGAN,     Kilmurry Ibrickane/North ClareF
11 22:16    AMY SEXTON,     Kilmurry Ibrickane/North ClareF
12 22:48    MAEVE FLANNERY,     Mountshannon    F 

Full results HERE

Photos...
1) A gallery of photos from James Sexton can be seen HERE

Clare...Results of the Parteen NS 5k & 10k fun run - Sun 22nd Mar 2015

PARTEEN NATIONAL SCHOOL 5K & 10K RUN RESULTS 22nd MARCH 2015

5K RUNNERS
JOHN KELLY 18.29
DAVID WOODS 20.49
CONOR AHERNE 22.18
JEAN MULCAHY 22.32
PATRICIA KELLY 23.09
SARAH CONNELLY 25.27

10K RUNNERS
MICHAEL CARMODY 34.24
NIALL MCCORMAC 34.24
COLM TURNER 34.35
DEIRDRE FINN 43.59
BARBARA CLANCY 44.53
DEIRDRE CURTIN 46.42

The full results can be seen HERE

Kerry...Results of the Tralee Music Society 5k - Sun 18th Jan 2015

This new 5k fun run in Tralee attracted a field of 155 runners although with an entry fee of €16.50, it wasn't exactly cheap.

1    Michael O'REGAN 15:47     Senior  (1)    Male  (1)
2    Cillian TIERNEY 16:47 Under 18  (1)    Male  (2)
3    Tommy OBRIEN 17:15 Ages 40 - 44  (1)    Male  (3)
12    Sharon CAHILL 21:01 Ages 50-59  (1)    Female  (1)
13    Catherine O SULLIVAN 21:04 Senior  (1) Female  (2)
18    Fiona KAVANAGH 21:55 Ages 40 - 44  (1) Female  (3)

The full results can be seen HERE

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