The National Irish Life Junior Championships part 1 took place this weekend. Having not known if this event would take place during to to the Covid Pandemic it was suddenly announced and the events spread over 2 separate days of competition to cater for the amount of entries. Ciara Dolan competed over 3000m Steeplechase, a very tough event and put in a great performance finishing with a time of 13:17 and claiming 5th place. Ciara is showing great potential at this event looking strong & comfortable at the distance.Eimear Halpin was back throwing discuss this time at Junior throwing a best of 27.87m and is back next week for the 400m hurdles.Adam Leahy was competing over 100m and ran a very good 12.42 seconds in his heat. Adam is competing next week at his favoured event high jump.Well done to our athletes and thanks to our coaches for their persistence with training during all the uncertainty of recent months. Special mention to our members who officiated at the event and ensured a safe environment for competition.

2 National Champions On Sunday the Masters took centre stage in Santry. There is a saying that 'things get better with age' and this is definitely true with regards our Masters athletes. 3 of our members took the road to Dublin. Catherine O'Connor took on the 1500m finishing in 6:11.05 and is now National W55 1500m champion.

Martin Kelly took on the 1500m also and finished in 5:27.14 is now the National M65 1500m champion. Ruaidhri Kedney took on the 200m and secured himself a silver medal finishing in second place with a speedy 24.64.

National juniors day 2 concluded with Eimear Halpin completing her season today and finished it off with a 400mh where she placed 3rd in her heat and 9th place overall in Juniors and will have three more years at this category. An eventful year full of uncertainty due to the Covid pandemic but still trained diligently during lockdown in the hope that competition would resume. She competed in both National Seniors and National Juniors and is now looking forward to 2021 competitions as Winter training commences.