Dublin Masters Cross Country, St Anne's Park Raheny, 08 January 2023

The Dublin Masters Cross Country Championships in St Anne’s Park Raheny was another great day for the Club with 29 finishers over four Races with many team and age category prizes coming back to Rathfarnham. We won gold in the M50 race with Shane O’Neill winning the race and he was supported by Sean McCreery 9^th., Colm Murray 10^th and Edwin Keville 12^th. Other great runs were had by Pearse Coyle, Dermot Shiels and Barry Mulvhill.

The M65 team took gold also with Sean Doyle second, John McHugh 5^th, Terry Clarke 9^th, Don O’Carroll 12^th and Philip Wright 15^th.

Louis McCarthy was second in the M35 race and led the team home in third place. Louis was supported by Dave Power 7^th, Patrick Marjolet 19^th and Greg Byrne 31^st. In the same race we had great runs from Ciaran Aylward, Luke Howard, John McCauley, Gael Hernandez, Michael Murphy, Ross Griffin and David Reidy.

In the F50 race Donna Mahon was second and led the team to second place. Donna was supported by Vanessa Sallier 13^th, Nuala Dervan 18^th and Helen French 35^th. Sue Ryan was 41^st in the M35 race, while Orla Murray was 59^th.

Many individual age category medals were won across all the ages 35+ to 70+. The full results are on the Myrunresults website at https://www.myrunresults.com/events/dublin_masters_xc_champs_2023/4706/results. Pictures of all who ran from the Club are posed on our Facebook site at https://www.facebook.com/media/set?set=a.661484665772364&type=3. In the overall team race for the Pat Hooper Cup Rathfarnham was second on 40 points to Raheny Shamrocks at 47. Clonliffe Harriers were third at 35 points. Well done to all who ran.