2014 News

The October Edition of Irish Runner has recognised the achievements of Mark Ryan on the mountains, in winning the European Mountain Running M35 Masters title in Poland in July and bronze in the World Masters Mountain Running Championships in Austria in September. In the World championship event Mark and fellow Rathfarnham teammates Peter O'Farrell and Paul Fleming won the bronze team medal. This article is attached. Well done to all.

Congratulations to Sean Hehir who has been selected to compete for Ireland in the European Marathon Cup, held in conjunction with the European Trach and Field Championships in Zurich in August. Full details are on the AAI site. Best of luck to Sean and his team mates.

Well done to Sean Hehir who won the Tom O'Driscoll trophy for athlete of the year last night at the Grange Golf Club. Sean had a tremendous year in 2013, winning the Dublin Marathon and National Marathon Championships last October. He also came second in the National Half Marathon in Dublin in August and set a PB and club Record of 65.11 in the Cardiff half marathon, where he was 8th. Other award winners were Vanessa Sallier, Maria Dolan, Gerry Doyle, Ronan Kearns, Shane O'Neill, Paul Fleming, Eoin Flynn, Paul Stephenson and Louis McCarthy. Well done to all. Photos of all the award winners and members at the dinner are in the Gallery

Sean Hehir receiving the Tom O'Driscoll trophy from Tom's brother Flor O'Driscoll