Three gold medals at Irish Schools’ Championships


By Paul O’Neill The qualification started in late April at the District Championships before the provincial finals last month. Last Saturday, over 1200 athletes from 369 schools fought it out for the 122 titles on offer at the Irish Schools’ Championships held at the Tullamore stadium. St Michael’s athlete, Jack O’Connor, has been in scintillating form […]

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Denise is right on track


A REMARKABLE career and it ain’t over by a country mile for Knocks runner Denise Toner. The 43 year-old enjoyed what she herself believes was the highlight of her career last month when she won double gold at the European Indoor Masters Championships in Portugal and there’s no sign of her taking the foot off the gas as […]


Medals at Mallusk for local students


THE performance of Sean Corry to take the Junior Boys title was one of a number of notable performances from Fermanagh athletes at the Ulster Schools Cross Country Finals at Mallusk, on Wednesday last. The athletes from five schools yielded a total of four podium finishes, three team medals and a total of 20 qualifiers for the […]


Local athletes pick up national medals


After almost two years since a National Clubs Cross Country Championships took place, athlete and spectators converged on Santry Demesne for a superb day’s competition. Following impressive results at the provincial championships in Dundonald four weeks ago, it was widely anticipated that a number of Fermanagh athletes would be in the shake up for medals at […]


Ulster titles for Fermanagh athletes


IT was a very productive day for Fermanagh athletes at the first of this year’s Ulster Cross Country Championships in Dundonald on Sunday. Three podium individual medals, four team medals and an inter-county win capped off a great event. In the fourth race of the day Piaras Toner, running in the colours of Clones, ran a very […]


Changed times . . . but keep running for your well-being


Paul O’Neill has been involved athletics for many years and witnessed an upsurge in running throughout the county in the past 10 years. He feels it is so important for our sanity particularly during these days of lockdown because of Covid-19 and says … ‘Just keep on running at your own pace’ Originally, running was […]


Mahon captures international universities triple jump gold


Conall Mahon took international universities honours at the Mary Peters Track in Belfast last weekend. The Irvinestown triple jumper saw off Scottish opposition to take gold with a leap close to his personal best. “Coming into it I hadn’t been jumping great. I knew I could jump well from training. I knew I was stronger […]