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"Gaelforce West" is the largest one day adventure race of its kind in the world. The 2010 event took place on Saturday August 21st. It is a multi-sport adventure race involving cycling, running, hiking and kayaking. The course of approximately 65km stretches from the stunning Glassilaun beach to Westport. En route there are some significant obstacles to cross, including Killary Harbour and the famous holy mountain of Croagh Patrick. Pictured above (from left): Diarmuid Curley, Eamonn O'Keeffe, Mick Mullane, Mike Healy & Chris Murphy. (We thank Catherine Pomeroy-Murphy for splendid picture and very comprehensive caption)

Eamonn O’Keeffe actually won the short course version of Gael Force West which didn’t include Croagh Patrick, but all the others continue reading…

Join Ireland’s best adventure race - a new challenge. With a varied mix of challenging on road biking, off road running and a short kayak section, it is set to get the hearts racing on either the 65km MonsterMAC EXPERT category or somewhat easier 35km SPORT category.

Set in and around Millstreet Country Park, the route follows parts of the scenic Cork/Kerry Duhallow Way, in this well designed, often challenging, sometimes gruelling, continue reading…

Congratulations to Tony Kelleher (formerly of Minor Row) now based in Cork and runing for Togher AC, who last weekend became the Irish over-40 800m champion in a personal best time of 2:02:33. A fabulous achievement no doubt.

While looking at the Irish Masters Athletic Association website, I noticed that our own Willie Neenan is still the national record holder for the mens over 65s at 800m and 1500m with times of 2.32.12 and 5.08.87, which were both set in September 1998 in Italy.

There are lots of photos of the Irish Masters Athletics Championships on flickr. View the full results of the days athletics.

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He was running years before he met Marie his good and devoted wife
And Willie Neenan is still running with him ’tis a way of life
A World Masters Games over fifty silver medallist in nineteen eighty three
I remember in the fifties him and his brother John D
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At cross country races in Liscahane just out of the Town of Millstreet
The famous Neenan brothers against Cork’s best did compete
Up and down the wet and high fields they set a cracking pace
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GAA

*County Minor A Regional HC: Ballinascarthy 2-12 Millstreet 1-8
* Duhallow Junior A Football Championship: Rockchapel 0-18 Millstreet 1-09 (9/July)
* Duhallow Junior A Football Championship: Millstreet 0-15 Kanturk 0-13 (After extra time), 8pm in Banteer 20/July
* Humphrey Kelleher Memorial U15 Football Cup Final: Tipperary 1-8  Cork County 1-7. Shield Final:Cork City bt Limerick by 2 points (played 17th July in Millstreet)

* Mark Ellis lines out at wing back for the Cork Intermediate Team in the Thursday’s Munster Final v Waterford (at Fraher Field, Dungarvan, 7.30pm). Result: Cork won by 2 points.

U14 County Hurling Final: Millstreet 2-15 Ballinhassig 3-4, in Blarney 7:45 Thurs 22nd July

U16 Duhallow Football Final: Millstreet 2-06 Boherbue 1-07, Friday 23rd July. Champions

Donoughmore 7 Mile
41st 0:46:38 MURPHY, Brian unatt/Millstreet M
83rd 0:50:33 SHEEHAN, Adrian unatt/Millstreet M35
84th 0:50:34 MURPHY, Chris unatt/Millstreet M

Bowling in Kilcorney

Novice D Kilcorney: Patrick Kelleher bt Joe Freeley 2bwl €850
Novice D Kilcorney: Anthony Hubbard bt Pat Flemming 1bwl €600

01/08/10  TOM DONOVAN V DENIS HICKEY  C
DEC MAHONY V PAUL BURKE  B
08/08/10  DERRY COONEY V MARK SHEEHAN  B
13/08/10  ED.SEXTON K.COONEY V DAVE HUBBARD TONY FLYNN  C
20/08/10  DAVE HUBBARD V GARRY DALY  C

Greyhounds – Curraheen Park 22/July/10 525 – EJ Murphy (Millstreet) Ballydaly Coilte (Tyrur Ted-Ballydaly Laurel) (3) 3/1, Husa (1) 3/1, Killshane Zoey (5) 2/1, 1l, 2½l, 29.26;

The 2010 Cork City Marathon was run a week ago on the June Bank Holiday (Monday 7th June). It was a terrible day with all the runners drowned to the skin, but spirits were high regardless. There were a few Millstreet runners who took part mostly in the relay. These were:

• #512 Joanne Carroll 03:45:48
• #3660 Road Runners (Mixed team) 03:42:55 (Humphery Hickey, Aoife O’Connell & Maeve Neenan)
• #3902 The Jolly Joggers (Mixed team) 04:14:40 – included Mairead O’Connell
• #3482    Millstreet Tae kwon-do   Mixed Team    05:04:01 – (They were raising money to send some of their team to the world championships)
• #4096 Runners Loft @ Maher (All male Team) 02:29:03 – included Tony Kelleher (formerly from Minor Row)
• There were a few more locals running, but I’m unsure of the team names they ran under.

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Local runners Chris Murphy and Mick Mullane on their way to the finish at the Grotto on the Clara road during the Clara Mountain Run last week

The Clara Mountain Run was run recently on the evening of Sunday 18th April. It was a lovely evening and for once the mountain was dry, so it was easier than other years. Over 40 brave runners started at the Presbytery on the Clara Road just after 7pm, heading back the Clara Road to the grotto and turning up Mount Leader and further onto Clara. Just over half an hour later it was won by Irish International Martin Bradshaw who emerged out of a group of three runners in the last 500m to take a comfortable victory.

There were some locals in the race field also: Michael Healy, Mick Mullane, Chris Murphy, Mary Finn and Shane Browne.

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The Clara Mountain Run is on this Sunday 18th April at 7pm. Starts on the Clara Road as normal. It’s a 6.2 km  run and the top and back, with the top of Clara 352m above the starting point. For us mere mortals, it’s often hard enough to walk to the top … but these guys run up and down as fast as they can. Get out and support them and enjoy the atmosphere.

information is available on the IMRA website

Ballycotton ’10′ 2010 – Donal Coffey (#340) feels the pain 400m from the finish. He managed to pass the Craughwell runner (Mark Davis) so he was probably not in as much pain as he looks!

View all the results from the Millstreet runners

Pictures from the CorkRunning Blog, and RacePix

The Ballycotton 10K is coming up soon (Sunday March 21st 2010), and with the entry list full, there are a number of Millstreet runners. Best of luck to all involved.

# Name
55 O’CALLAGHAN, Grainne
340 COFFEY, Donal
2338 O’LEARY, William
2339 O’LEARY, Thomas
2522 THORNTON, Michael
2954 O’CONNELL, Aoife
3139 HICKEY, Humphrey

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Athletics: Woodie’s DIY /AAI Inter Club Cross Country Championships 12,000m Phoenix Park, Dublin. 7th March, 2010: 38th position #605 Desmond Casey Millstreet A.C. 38.27

The Adare 10k 7th March,2010: Brian O’Connor, Millstreet AC Senior Men #1781 115th time:0:45:01

Soccer 6/7th March: League 1A: Rathcoole Rovers A 2 Passage 1. League 3A: Los Zarcos 0 Watergrasshill Utd 0; 3A Rathcoole Rovers B 0 CFC Banteer 1;
Saxone Cup 2nd round:Millstreet Cel 4 Churchvilla 1. U15 Div2 Rockmount 3 Rathcoole 3. U13 Div 6 Rockmount A 2 Rathcoole Rovers 1

GAA:

Ducon Cup: Millstreet 1-10 Kanturk 1-10

Ducon Cup: Knocknagree 2-7 Millstreet 0-10

Fixtures:

GAA:

• Tonight 8th March Co Premier 2 Minor Football League – Group 2 Millstreet v Bantry Blues at Millstreet @ 8.00 pm
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Carrauntoohil May 31st 2009

In this weeks Regional Report, Eily mentioned that Donal Coffey finished 2nd in the Puck Warriors 10K Jingle Run held in Killorglin recently (28th Nov 09)  in a time of 34:58 (full results here).

Donal never seemed like an much of an athlete when he was younger, but he has been posting some really impressive results in the last 4 to 5 years.

Not alone does he do road running, but he also partakes in mountain running around Ireland, which is organised by the Irish Mountain Running Association. His results here have also been really impressive finishing on average 4th for all races in 2009 and 7th in 2008. One seasoned athlete told me many times that you’d have to be crazy to run up and down mountains! For the rest of us, it can be a challenge even to walk to the top of these mountains and back, which makes running them at top speed seem all the more impressive.

Also, the full results for the Clara Mountain Run 2009 have been added to the Millstreet.ie site.

See below for Donal’s results and some more photos:

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Desmond Casey runs today (Sunday) in the Cork team for the Munster Senior Cross Country Championships which will take place on Sunday next in Carraig na bhFear.

Cork Teams are on the Leevale AC website

Update Monday 18/Jan: 6th for Desmond, and 1st in the team competition with Cork.
Munster Cross County Championships, Carraig na bnFear, Co Cork
Senior Men, 10km: 1 R Chesser (Ennis TC) 33:46; 2 B MacMahon (Clonliffe) 34:24; 3 L Reale (Limerick) 34:25; 4 S McGrath (East Cork) 35:18; 5 J McCarthy (East Cork) 35:42; 6 D Casey (Millstreet) 35:46; 7 L Debela (Limerick) 35:50; 8 C Murphy (Iveragh) 36:01; 9 B McGinley (Ennis TC) 36:20; 10 R Zakis (West Waterford) 36:57. Team: 1 East Cork (4,5,15,23) 47; 2 Limerick (3,7,13,25) 48; 3 Ennis TC (1,9,24,28) 62; 4 Togher 78; 5 Leevale 117; 6 Thurles Crokes 138. County: 1 Cork 43; 2 Limerick 90; 3 Clare 124.

We have been tracking results on this website since the October 2009. It is by no means a definitive list, but those that we are aware of are saved for future reference. This

Note: November and December were both a wash out, while the second part of December everything was frozen solid, so there was not much happening.

Results

• Sun 6th Dec: JBHC Semi-Final Millstreet V Dromtarriffe (OFF due to weather)
• Sun 6th Dec 10:45am: Saxone Cup – Hillington v Millstreet Cel (OFF – weather)
• Sat 5th Dec 2pm: 1A Rathcoole Rovers 9-2 Glen Cel; 3A CFC Banteer v Los Zarcos (OFF due to weather)
• Sun 29th Nov 10:45: AOH Cup Ballyvolane A 6-3 Millstreet Cel; Rathcoole Rovers B 0-1 Wilton Utd B; Los Zarcos v Knocknaheeny Cel (OFF due to weather)
• U21 Hurling Championship Semi Final: Kilbrin 0-15 Millstreet 2-4
• Sun 28th Nov 09: Donal Coffey finished 2nd in the Killorglin 10K
• Sat 28th Nov 2pm: 1A Rathcoole Rovers v Ballyvolane (Off due to weather)
• Mon 23rd Nov 7:30pm: JBFC final Millstreet 1-6 3-8 Freemount at Millstreet
• Sun 22nd Nov 10:45am Div 3A Los Zarcos v Rathcoole Rovers B (OFF-weather); Div 2A Millstreet Celtic v Castle Celtic (OFF-weather)
• Sat 21st 2pm: Div 1A Rathcoole Rovers v Mayfield Utd (OFF due to weather)
• Fri 20th Nov: SBFC: Boherbue Comp. 2-10 0-6 Millstreet Community School, Knocknagree, 1pm
• Sun 15th Nov 10:45am: Knocknaheeny Cel v Los Zarcos (OFF – weather); Div 1A – Rathcoole Rovers 3-2 Park Utd
• Sat 14th Nov 2pm: Millstreet Cel v Crescent Ath(OFF Weather); Rathcoole Rovers “B” v Wilton Utd “B” (OFF Weather)
• Fri 13th Nov: SBFC: Boherbue Comp. v Millstreet Community School, Knocknagree, 1pm (OFF)
• Wed 11th Nov 8pm: Cullen young at heart committee meeting
• Wed 11th Nov 8pm: Millstreet Development Group hosts a talk on entitlements by Helen O’Sullivan of Duhallow IRD, in the Wallis Arms.
• Mon 9 Nov: U16 B Football County Semi Final, Millstreet lost to Youghal in Mourneabbey 2:30pm Sat Coachford 3:00pm Sat Deferred to Monday 9th 7.30pm in Mourneabbey
• Sun 8 Nov 2pm: Junior B Hurling Championship, Millstreet 2-7  0-8 Lismire. in the Town Park
• Sun 8 Nov 10:45 soccer: Los Zarcos v Hibernians B (OFF); Rathcoole Rovers B v Macroom (OFF)
• Before Nov 7th: Colleges Intermediate C Semi Final – Glanmire v Millstreet CS.
• Before Nov 7th: Colleges U16 1/2 quarter final: Millstreet CS v Blarney. (Semi Final – BCS v Millstreet or Blarney before Nov 21st.)
• Sat 7 Nov 1pm: U12 Hurling Knockout Final Millstreet beat Dromtarriffe in the Town Park
• Sat 7 Nov 2:30pm Soccer: Millstreet Cel v Hillington (OFF); Kanturk 4-2 Rathcoole Rovers
• 4th Nov: U14 Footballers lost by 6-5 to 3-4 in the Duhallow Final
• 2 Nov: Senior Schools Football: Beara Cs v Millstreet CS, Templenoe
• 31 Oct – 1 Nov: Soccer: Killowen 0 Rathcoole Rovers A 2, Los Zarcos V Knocknaheeny Celtic (off), Millstreet Celtic V Ballyvolane A (off)
• 27 Oct: Duhallow Junior B Football Championship: Millstreet 2-5 Meelin1-5
• 25 Oct~: Ulster Bank County Premier 2 MFL Group 2: Millstret 0-9 Clonakilty 1-5
• 24 Oct: U16 County B Football Championship. Millstreet beat Carrigaline
• 24 Oct: St. Michael’s Cup first round: Rathcoole Rvs 2 Fairview 0; Murphy’s Irish Stout President’s Cup first round: Hibernians V Los Zarcos (Off).President’s Cup second round: Rathcoole Rovers 2 UCC 3
• 23rd Oct: Munster Colleges Camogie Intermediate C: D. Mount Mercy 6-15 1-4 Millstreet
• 21 Oct: Duhallow Junior B Hurling Championship: Millstreet defeated Dromtariffe.
• 20 Oct~: Ulster Bank County Premier 2 MFL Group 2: Millstreet 3-10 Youghal 1-6
• 17 Oct: U16 Duhallow Football Final Boherbue 0-13 Millstreet 0-9

Donal Coffey (#116) from Drishane Rd on his way to a creditable 16th position(out of 576 competitors) in the annual Mallow 10 Mile Road Race, in a time of 57:54

Also to view: the 2009 results, and photos from the race. The next Mallow 10 is on Jan 10th 2010 at 12:30pm.

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Best of luck to Desmond Casey who has been selected on the Cork senior team for the National Inter County Cross Country Championships in Kilbeggan Co. Westmeath on Sunday, 22 November 2009, after he finished in 6th position in the Cork County Senior Cross Country Championships hosted over testing terrain in Clonakilty.

update Nov 24th: Desmond finished in a creditable 39th position in what were very difficult conditions, and 3rd of the Cork contingent. (39th #719 Casey, Desmond Cork 32.45)

Podium trio in the Mens Junior Race

The full results can be viewed on the Athletics Ireland website

In her notes last week, Eily Buckley congratulated all those that ran in the Dublin City Marathon on 26th of October last. The results have been released and here are those from the Millstreet area:

• 294th Brian Murphy Knocknakilla 03:00:07
• 809th Chris Murphy Clara 03:18:29
• 1425th John Sheahan 3:28:59
• 2444th Brian O’Connor Cloghoula 03:43:09
• 3039th Thomas O’Leary 03:49:41
• 4300th Con Twomey 04:02:42
• 5112ndPaudie Bourke Kilcorney 04:08:40
• 4802nd Humphrey Hickey The Bush Bar 04:08:50
• 5613rd Liam Bourke Kilcorney 04:15:01
• 8483rd Michelle O’Leary(Casey) 05:01:49
• 10005th Mary O’Mahony 06:23:50 and 9767th Denis O’Mahony 06:01:35 walked it!
• Also one of the local guards ran it, but we’re not sure which one!

If you know someone that ran, then go check up their times.

Donal Cashman from Tullig is running in the New York Marathon today, starting at 2:20pm Irish time. His race number is 14131 & you will be able to track his location in the race if you go to the NYC Marathon website and follow the instructions for the “athlete tracker”. Or watch the race live online from Universal Sports. Best of luck Donal. ……He finished in 3:18:26 Also well done to Mary O Mahony  (#60642) of Minor Row who completed the marathon in 5:43:52.

Click on the images to view dozens of photos taken during the race by official photographers.