May '25 Round-Up

1st May 2025

Well done to the 21 Youghal AC athletes who travelled the short distance to Midleton last night for the Midleton 5 mile road race. It was a balmy evening for running with super performances by all.

Keith Kelly. 27:33

Tom O Neill. 30:50

Maurice Walsh. 31:53

Steven Prendergast. 32:04

Brian Landers. 32:43

Rob Moynihan. 34:57

Deirdre Ansbro. 35:13

Paul McFarland. 35:28

Ted Kelly. 35:49

Isaac Landers. 36:08

Ian Murphy. 36:48

Eddie O Regan. 38:55

David Mc Carthy. 40:47

Sylvie O Mahony. 42:34

George Bulman. 42:34

Mary O Mahony. 43:05

Olan Coleman. 44:45

Deirdre O Sullivan. 46:10

Marie Trihy. 53:36

Meg Kelly. 58:22

Zara Kelly. 58:22

Congratulations to Keith Kelly on coming 2nd M45 and to Mary who won the fabulous 10000 finisher prize. Shout out to Marie Trihy on completing her first 5mile race and to our junior athletes Isaac Landers and Meg Kelly who also completed their first 5mile race. It’s great to see the older teens on the road representing the club.

4th May 2025

Four juvenile athletes traveled for Day Two of the County Championships in a Sunny MTU.

Sisters Brook and Sophia Walsh along with Freya Keating jumped well in the Long Jump. The first time jumping off the long board which is two metres from the pit. All three Girls improving with each jump.

Into the sprints and all three ran vary well.

Ruby Devereaux lead out the pack in the U16 1500metres, taking a 5 metre lead into the first bend. This was extended to 10 metres rounding the top bend on lap two. Always in control the gap back to the field was 30 Metres at the bell. A fast finishing lap left a full 50metres between Ruby and the rest of the field.

Well done to all.

A massive well done to all our athletes, who took part in the 2025 Regeneron Great Limerick Run yesterday 04th of May 2025. Like something out of Star Wars, the FORCE was indeed with all seven, who made the trip to Limerick on a lovely morning for running

It was a 9:00am start for the marathon, as seasoned marathoner Jannette O’ Sullivan and first-timers James O’ Mahony and Barry Ring took to the start line. Each one performed great on the day, with Janette stealing the show with a stellar PB performance of 3:19:49, improving on her Dublin time from last year by six minutes. James O’ Mahony ran a fantastic debut marathon to finish in 3:35:42 and Barry Ring ran a controlled race from the outset with a 3:49:48 finish

At 10:30am, our three ½ marathon representatives took off on their 13.1-mile sightseeing mission. David Herlihy, fresh off the back of a 2:57 marathon last week in London, had a fabulous run, going round the course in a PB 1:22:59. Husband and wife duo Anna and Krzysztof Pawlik had a lovely morning out, clocking 1:43:14 and 1:49:06 respectively, to add the silver medals to their gold from 2024

Marie Trihy was our sole representative in the 6-mile event. A recent graduate from the Couch to 4-mile group, Marie took on the 6-mile off the back of completing the Midleton 5-mile on Thursday night. Well done Marie on completing the course in 1:08:32

8th May 2025; Killeagh 4 mile

Well done to the organising committee, including Colin Brennan and David Barry, who put on a great race, even arranging for the sunshine to make an appearance. The music at the clubhouse, the mile markers, the gentle words of encouragement painted on the road and the refreshments afterwards made for a great evening for the parish. Hopefully, we’ll all be back in Killeagh in May next year

Well done to each and every one of our members for supporting the local events over the recent weeks, in particular to our category prize winners on the night – Keith Kelly 1st M45, Brian Landers 2nd M50, Claire ‘Bear’ Murphy 2nd F50 and Mary O’ Mahony 1st F60. Well done to Aine Collins 1st FJ and Conor Sheahan 2nd MJ. There were some fantastic performances, and plenty of PB’s on the night, a gorgeous evening for running.

9th May 2025

Ruby Devereaux represented Pobalscoil na Trínóide on Friday at the South Munster Schools track and field championships. He came home in first place in the u16 mile in a fabulous time of 4:32. Ruby is going from strength to strength and all his hard training is certainly paying off. Well done Ruby.

On Friday evening Trisha Curtin travelled to the Ballinroad 5km for the beginning of the West Waterford summer series. She smashed her race coming in 2nd lady overall in a fabulous PB time of 19:16. Super running Trisha, well done.

Huge congratulations to@our members who took part in Ironman 70.3 Mallorca today. Enjoy the celebrations.

10th May 2025

Huge 10 second PB for Avril Millerick yesterday at the Irish Milers Meet in Belfast. Avril Clocked a really fast 9.32 coming 10th in the Women’s senior 3,000mtrs. Congratulations Avril.

11th May 2025

Congratulations to Ellie Murray 2nd in the Counties today in the 500m and to Oisín McNulty who was second in 300m.

Well done to all our athletes who competed in MTU today.

17th May 2025

Congratulations to Ruby Devereaux who today became Munster schools champion coming in first in the track and field U16 mile in a speedy time of 4:44:82. Super running again from Ruby.

It was a husband and wife date day x 2 this morning where we had four fabulous club members who travelled to Killarney to take part in the Killarney half marathon and 10km. Paul, Krzysztof and Anna ran the half marathon while Kate returned after an injury today to do the 10km. Delighted to see you back Kate and well done to you all on a warm day for racing.

Paul Mc Farland. 1:44:03

Krzysztof Pawlik. 1:49:42

Anna Pawlik. 1:50:07

Kate McFarland. 59:53

18th May 2025

A great days entertainment yesterday 18th May, for the last of the County Championships in MTU. Youghal A/C had 13 representatives at U9, U10 & U11. Super performances all round and lots of fun had. There was also some success between the singing, dancing and all round great craic being had especially by the U9 Girls.

Turbo Javelin had an early afternoon start and Darragh Curran duly delivered Gold with a fantastic throw of over 20metres. In the sand, excellent jumping from Jake Hickey seen Him take Gold, and Jake followed up, with a leading all the way Gold in the 600 metres. It was a very long day but worth the wait to see Annelise Kelleher take a super bronze in the U9 500 metres.

Well done to everyone taking part over the last 4 Weeks. Both Athletes and Parents did the Club proud.

25th May 2025; Weekly roundup………

Well done to mother and son duo who took part in the John Buckley 5km on the 20/05. Both Geraldine and Conor ran super coming in in times of 30:55 and 23:11 respectively.

We had a great gang travelling the short distance to Ardmore on Friday evening for the Ardmore 5mile race. There were some fantastic performances on the night topped with Keith Kelly coming in first in his category.

7 KELLY, Keith 1st M45 27:40

46 COLEMAN, Brendan 33:59

59 MURPHY, Ian 34:37

106 O'MAHONY, Kelly 38:51

120 GOULDING, Conor 39:40

144 O'MAHONY, Mary 42:45

145 O'MAHONY, Sylvie 42:45

151 O'HALLORAN, Joanne 43:20

202 CURTIN, Geradine 54:32

Well done to you all.

31st May 2025

*Ruby Devereaux is national champion*

Ruby travelled to Tullamore yesterday to take part in the National Schools U16 mile. He came home with the win in a speedy time of 4 minutes 31 seconds.

Ruby has put in trojan training and is a great role model for our juvenile athletes showing them that anything is possible. Congratulations Ruby, enjoy the celebrations.