Paddy Cummins wins 4k – Clonmel Athletic Club

The 4^th race of the O Reilly Pharmacy 4k took place tonight in cold but mainly dry weather and we saw some great performances throughout the race. Once again, the Club would like to thank Barry Horgan for sponsoring this year’s series of races and many athletes who competed in three of the races received their well-earned Umbrellas and which were greatly appreciated by everyone. The Club would also like to thank the Brothers of Charity for the use of their carpark as race Headquarters and the Red Cross for First Aid. The Club also appreciated the great work by our many stewards who despite the cold weather ensured that the whole event was a brilliant success.

The race format tonight was Lucky Dip and the winners were Paddy Cummins 1^st in 13 mins 38 secs, Sean McCarthy 25^th in 17:16, Niall McCarthy 39^th in 17:59, Marian Flaherty 50^th in 19:21 and Tom Bourke 69^th in 21:56.

Tonight’s race was won by Paddy Cummins of Moycarkey Coolcroo in 13 mins 38 secs, the fastest time for this series of races with Eamon Morrissey of Dundrum 2^nd in 14 mins 19 secs and Conor Ryan of Clonmel 3^rd in 14 mins 27 secs. The top three women were Ann Marie Boland 20^th in 16 mins 33 secs, Ali O Connor 21^st in 16:36 and Elaine Horgan 23^rd in 17 mins 6 secs.

The winner of the Special Hamper tonight was Justin Walsh, congrats Justin.

Next week’s race is our Charity race and all monies donated will go to the Emma Lacey Trust Fund, a very worthy cause, so spread the word and the more people that walk, jog and run next Wednesday night will mean more funds will be raised for this worthy cause.

This series of races are an ideal way to get and keep fit and over the past four weeks we have seen some great running and indeed improved performances as the series went on and with one more race in the series to go, we will no doubt witnessed further improvements. Major improvements like Aine Hickey who ran 25:14 on the first night and tonight skipped around in an impressive 24:28, Ali O Connor from 17:31 to 16:36 tonight, Amy Ruth improved from 20:58 to an impressive 19:58, Anne Cronin improved from 22:42 to 22:19, Anne Marie O Flynn improved from 27:47 to 25:50, Anthony Feery improved from 17:07 to 15:48, Brian McDonald improved from 18:46 to 17:58, Carmel Delaney from 24:04 to 22:59, Catherine Crotty from 25:14 to 24:28, Eoin Morrissey from 21:35 to 20:56, Honor Goonan from 25:17 to 23:06, Jimmy Lonergan from 19:52 to 18:42, Joanne O Grady from 22:25 to 21:06, Kevin Doyle from 19:19 to 17:47, Liam Keane from 19:37 to 18:57, Michael Halley from 21:53 to 21:13, Michael Healy from 18:04 to 17:35, Michael Moloney from 16:23 to 15:59, Nessa O Dwyer from 19:53 to 19:29, Peter Joyce from 19:54 to 18:24, Ruth Quinn from 29 mins to 28:08, Tommy Hartigan from 20:45 to 19:46 and Trisha Shoer from 29 mins to 24:17.

DON’T FORGET, NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT’S 4K IS IN AID OF THE EMMA LACEY TRUST FUND, STARTING AT 7PM, REGISTRATION WILL OPEN AT 6.15PM AT THE BROTHERS OF CHARITY CARPARK.

Clonmel Athletic Club 4K Series			Race 4 Results

Sponsored by		O Reilly Pharmacy

Awards	Place	Athlete’s name	Mins	Secs	Bib
PW	1	Paddy Cummins	13	38	11
	2	Eamon Morrissey	14	19	6
	3	Conor Ryan	14	27	35
	4	Patrick Roche	14	38	39
	5	Nigel O Flaherty	15	10	19
	6	Fintan Rice	15	25	14
	7	Lar Martin	15	35	15
	8	Bernard Feery	15	39	5
	9	Patrick Cormack	15	44	1
	10	Emmet Prendergast	15	45	22
	11	Andrew Downey	15	47	38
	12	Anthony Feery	15	48	16
	13	Patrick Bowe	15	50	24
	14	John O Shea	15	51	17
	15	Joe Gough	15	53	4
	16	Michael Moloney	15	59	7
	17	Eddy O Donoghue	16	6	18
	18	Barry Horgan	16	26	20
	19	David Lorigan	16	31	34
	20	Ann Marie Boland	16	33	28
	21	Ali O Connor	16	36	36
	22	John Quigley	17	6	13
	23	Elaine Horgan	17	6	21
	24	Dylan McCarthy	17	15	9
PW	25	Sean McCarthy	17	16	8
	26	Donal Barry	17	17	26
	27	Vincent McHugh	17	18	10
	28	Justin Walsh	17	19	33
	29	Fran Mulcahy	17	26	25
	30	Siobhan McHugh	17	28	30
	34	Kenny Brett	17	33	104
	31	Michael Healy	17	35	37
	35	Sean O Dea	17	40	127
	32	Kevin Doyle	17	47	12
	36	Michael Ryan	17	49	107
	33	Alan O Shea	17	56	2
	38	Brian MCDonald	17	58	120
PW	39	Niall McCarthy	17	59	102
	40	Kieran Twomey	17	59	123
	37	John Cashman	18	20	31
	43	Sophie Maher	18	20	116
	44	Peter Joyce	18	24	125
	41	Donal Casey	18	25	29
	42	Michael Murphy	18	31	23
	45	Jimmy Lonergan	18	42	115
	46	Richard Meehan	18	46	110
	47	Eddie Prendergast	18	50	113
	48	Frank Lynch	18	53	108
	49	Sareen Walsh	19	14	112
PW	50	Marian Flaherty	19	21	105
	51	Nessa O Dwyer	19	29	124
	52	Andrew Mullins	19	45	101
	53	Tommy Hartigan	19	46	111
	54	Roise Flaherty	19	53	106
	55	Amy Ruth	19	58	119
	56	Michael Sweetman	20	13	126
	57	Donna nagle	20	25	117
	58	Julie Tideswell	20	31	109
	59	Sinead Kennedy	20	34	103
	60	Eoin Morrissey	20	56	114
	62	Joanne O Grady	21	6	204
	63	Michael Hally	21	13	208
	61	Aoife Glynn	21	22	121
	65	Sarah Gough	21	32	202
	64	Mary Cashman	21	56	118
	68	Suzanne Shine	21	56	205
PW	69	Tom Bourke	21	56	210
	70	John Hennessy	22	1	209
	66	Lizzie O Halloran	22	13	122
	67	Ann Cronin	22	19	100
	71	Yvonne O Connor	22	26	207
	72	Claire Annan	22	27	206
	73	Paudie Everard	22	41	211
	74	Honor Goonan	23	6	213
	75	Eamonn Crowley	24	12	200
	76	Trisha Shoer	24	17	214
	77	Mary Walshe	24	45	212
	78	Jane Toomey	25	46	217
	79	Anne Marie O Flynn	25	50	216
	80	Ruth Quinn	28	8	215
	81	Elaine Bowe	29	8	203
	82	Jacqui Turvey	36	39	201