The 150th edition of the Irish Life National Track & Field Championships took place in Morton Stadium over the weekend. A most prestigious event for all track athletes to compete at. Very windy conditions on the track made the events even tougher and times reflected the tough conditions.

On Saturday Clodagh Dunbar was drawn in the outside lane in her 200m heat finishing just off her pb in 26.70 seconds in 4th place for an overall 10th place

Conor Wilson ran in Lane 6 in his 200m heat and after a brilliant run in 22.70 seconds to finish 2nd in his heat agonisingly just missed the final by 0.03 seconds.

Aaron Tierney-Smith was in lane 4 for the 400m and came home in 50.33 seconds for 3rd place in his heat.

Eimear Halpin took on the 400m hurdles running in a tough lane coming home 5th in her heat in 1:10.13

On Sunday day 2 saw more Menapians competing, Conor Wilson & Michael Deady were back to race the 100m with Conor running 12.16 & Michael running 12.45 in the heats.

Well done to Orla Dolan who was our Ambassador representing the club so well in the celebratory parade and ran the 150m run with club members from clubs all over the country.

As with all events they cannot be held without volunteers and Michael McKeon, Mags Malone, Kate Wilson, Steve Wilson and Padraig Kelly all gave their time helping in various roles ensuring all events ran smoothly.

Well done to Sinead Ryan who today travelled to Waterford and completed the unusual distance of a Quarter Marathon.

Well done Sinead

In 2019 the last race held pre covid was Glynn 5k and yesterday the ever popular race returned to the calender. Some of our road racing crew travelled the short distance to take part and thankfully the heavy rain showers didn't show up.

Gavin Hayes 21.54, Fran Power 23.30, John Dier 25.00 & Brian Reilly 29.35 were all happy to get back on the roads of Glynn.

Well done folks.