13-05-2025
Drogheda & District AC's Aoife Mundow is ‘ultra' impressive as she sets stunning new course record
Aoife finished in a time of 2:06:17, taking nine minutes off the previous best time and finishing first female and third overall.
The race started at Dublin Castle and the runners made their way out to Kippure Estate in Wicklow, a distance of approximately 26km with a 650m elevation.
Much further afield, Drogheda & District's Tadhg Donnelly had another incredible run in the 1500m at the Harry Ellis Invitational Meeting in New Jersey as the young man from Clogherhead finished sixth for his Iona college team in a super-fast time of three minutes 43.97 seconds and he is now the third fastest 1500m runner of all time in Louth.
Back in Europe, Liam Farrell completed the Geneva 10K on Saturday evening in 51:15 and Fiona Branigan finished in 1hr 16min.
Also on Saturday, there was fantastic running from the Drogheda & District juveniles at the Louth Championships up in Bush.
The sun was shining and the atmosphere was electric as more than 40 of the club's juveniles took part and there were medals galore.
Nancy Clerkin was second in the U12 shot putt, Isabella Ojo of St Paul's school was third in the U13 javelin, Euan Kirwan was third in the U13 shot put and Hannah Cunningham placed second in the U14 1500m race.
In the U14 200m heats Eve Russell was second, as was Emily Garvey in her race, with Emily Cooney fourth.
Danielle Nolan was second in the U15 80m hurdles and won both the high jump and 200m in her age group, while Beatrice Cunningham came second in the U15 1500m race.
The podium finishes continued as Micheal Iloduba won the U16 200m, Lily Fitzharris came third in the U17 200m race, Aine Carroll won the U17 1500m, James Traynor placed third in the U18 200m, Niamh Carroll came third in both the U19 200m and 1500m races and Cormac Russell took first place in the javelin.
There was more good news when Drogheda & District clubman Christopher Keenan was selected on the Leinster team for the Men's 1500m in the CSIT Games in Greece, based on his fine run last weekend.
