Shona Heaslip has been selected to run for Ireland at the European Championships in Rome
After clocking fast times in Belfast and Manchester, Oisin Lynch (St. Brendan’s Killarney) was the quickest on paper going into the much anticipated Senior Boys 800m final and stamped his authority right from the off leading through the first 600m.
However, things started to unravel as he was overtaken on the final bend before heroically regrouping again to catch up and inch away in the closing metres, taking the win in a time of 1:53:34, a fine way to round off his stellar schools athletics career.
Kevin O’Shea (Mercy Mounthawk Tralee) continued his record smashing form from the Munster Championships to clearly win both the Junior Boys Javelin and Discus throwing a best of 47.38m and 44.35m respectively, to leave him a staggering 10 metres clear of the pack in the Javelin and seven metres in the discus.
The talented Ryan Vickers (St Brendan’s College) won the Minor Boys 800m in a time of 2:05:71 and then took the silver in the 100m. He rounded off a good days work by leading the St Brendans Killarney team to bronze in the Minor Boys 4 x 100m relay final.
Babatunda Smith (Killarney Community College) was a double medallist, taking silver in the Junior Boys High Jump and bronze in the 80m Hurdles.
Kieran Keane (PS Chorca Dhuibhne) added to his national medal collection taking silver in the Inter Boys shot-put, with a throw just 1cm short of 16 metres for the 5kg shot.
The hard-working Eoin Malik (Mercy Mounthawk) had his best athletics performance to date taking silver in the Inter Boys Triple Jump with a jump of 12.30m.
Dominik Wasila of St. Brendans Killarney, competing in the intermediate boys long jump at the All-Ireland Schools’ Track and Field Championships at Tullamore Harriers Athletics Club in Offaly. Photo by Sportsfile
Outside the medals, there were plenty of fine performances with Jack O Coileain (Gaelcholaiste Chiarrai – Junior Boys 1,500m), Alex Collins (CII Abbeyfeale – Junior Boys Triple Jump), Dylan O’Callaghan (St Michaels Listowel – Inter Boys 400m), Anna O’Shea (Killarney Community College – Inter Girls Pole Vault), Kieran Keane (PS Chorca Dhuibhne – Inter Boys Discus), Liam Rohan (Presentation Milltown – Inter Boys Shot Put), Mollie O’Riordan (Tarbert Comprehensive – Senior Girls 400m) and Oisin O’Regan (CII Abbeyfeale – Senior Boys 400h) all finishing in the top six in their events.
Shona Heaslip to run for Ireland at European Championships in Rome
Shona Heaslip (An Riocht AC) has been selected to represent Ireland at the European Athletics Championships in Rome later this month. Heaslip will take to the line next Sunday, June 9, in the women’s half-marathon, and will be hoping for another top performance after last year’s 24th place in the World Half-Marathon Championships in Riga, Latvia.
Niamh O’Mahoney with her cup after she won the 10km race in Cork on Sunday
Meanwhile, on a sunny Sunday in Cork, Niamh O’Mahoney (An Riocht AC) returned home from Providence College, Rhode Island, where she is on an athletics scholarship, to win the women’s 10k event in a time of 35:25.
Iveragh AC’s Brian Murphy had a sixth place finish in the men’s half-marathon clocking 72:39, whilst in the marathon, Paul Doolan (Killarney Valley AC) had another sub-3 performance coming home in 2 hours 57 minutes.