Our Senior Men's team did brilliantly to come home Team Second narrowly missing out on first place by 3 points behind Dundrum South Dublin A.C.   The team were: Cian McLoughlin leading them home in 4th place, Rory Byrne in 9th, Nigel Brunton in 12th and Paolo Doglio was 18th. Others racing were Colin Coyne 43rd and William Stafford 49th. Cian, Rory and Nigel all went with the leading pack and Cian was chasing 3rd for much of the race. Bravely chasing down the runners ahead he successfully entered the medal position a half mile from home only to succumb to the sprint finish of DSD's Noel Berkely in the final 100m to finish 4th. Rory ran bravely on his own for much of the race to garner his highest ever finish at the National event. Nigel struggled somewhat for a few laps but kept his head and sprinted past two runners over the final 400m to finish 12th and keep the team competition tight. Paulo, running only his 2nd race in 20 months started very very slow - but picked runners off on each lap as he moved through the field to cross the line in 18th. A great team effort, but one that must go down as having slipped away!  DSD went on to take Team First for each of the four categories, so congratulations also to them on a fabulous result.   Leevale A.C. also did well in the Mens' Senior with First and Second place going to Martin  McCarthy and Cathal Lombard.

  Women's club captain Mags Grennan ran a sterling race for 15th in the Senior Women's race. Mags was always running strongly and seemed to be the sole racer unfazed by the steep hill! Ann Keenan-Buckley won the race impressively, almost a minute ahead of DSD's Maria McCambridge, followed by Valerie McGovern of Donore Harriers.

  Our Mens Junior team (Lutfi Dridi, Liam O'Halloran,  Tomás Kilbride, Kevin Fennell, Kip Daniels and James Egan) as well as Conor Healy (running independently) ran well also with Lutfi, Liam and Kip coming in 14, 15 and 16th respectively.  *NOTE:  there was a mix-up at the AAI about positions for Kip and Conor.   Kip was 16th and Conor 52nd.   Had this been corrected at the time Clonliffe would have been 4th team.  Somehow Kip was down as 'Daniel Kidd' too!

  The Junior Women's race provided Clonliffe with their first success of the day as a team of Nicola Fallon in 5th, Christine Kennelly in 8th, Francis Nic Rianoin in 17th and Ciara Meehan in 35th secured team bronze medals. It's the first set of Cross Country medals at this level that Clonliffe has picked up so well done to all four girls and keep up the good work.