Senior Cross Country International at ALSAA - KBC St Patrick's Festival Road Race Grace Sweeney, Loreto Foxrock, was a class apart at this Schools’ Senior Cross Country International against Wales at the ALSAA Sports Complex in Dublin. Grace went to the front from the gun and was joined by team mates Tekea Gebrezgi, Lorraine McCarthy and Claire Madigan. As the race progressed Grace pulled away and won with ease. The KitKat Irish Schools’ Team with five in the first six took the team award from the Welsh Schools’. The Boys’ race was much closer with two Irish, Niall McCormack and Michael McKillop, and Adam Bitchell and Ricky Challinor, of Wales leading the field for much of the race. It was the greater strength of Adam which saw him pull away from Niall McCormack, Clonmel High School, over the last 400m that won the race. Good backing up by Michael McKillop, John Travers, Sean McCafferty and Lee Stenson meant that the KitKat Irish Schools’ won the team event from the Welsh. Senior Boys Race Place Name Time 1 Adam Bitchell Welsh Schools’ 22.47 2 Niall McCormack Ireland 22.52 3 Michael McKillop Ireland 23.01 4 Ricky Challinor Welsh Schools’ 23.17 5 John Travers Ireland 23.28 6 Sean McCafferty Ireland 23.30 7 Jonathan Peters Wales 23.37 8 Lee Stenson Ireland 23.39 9 Luke Watson Welsh Schools’ 23.40 10 Chris Jones Ireland 23.48 11 Rhys Glastonbury Wales 23.53 12 Ryan Faulkner Ireland 23.56 13 Nathan Hardee Welsh Schools’ 24.01 14 Stephen Rooney Ireland 24.04 15 Tom Marshall Wales 24.19 16 Phil Edge Welsh Schools’ 24.22 17 David Mountford Wales 24.27 18 Joshua Dixon Wales 24.30 19 Michael Kallenberg Welsh Schools’ 24.39 20 Tom Millar Wales 24.45 21 Chris Johnston Ireland 24.49 22 Tomos Whitmarsh-Knight Wales 25.00 23 Larry Brady Ireland 25.19 24 Daniel Worrall Welsh Schools’ 25.21 25 Chris Hayward Wales 25.32 Teams 1. Ireland 24pts 2. Welsh Schools’ 43pts 3. Wales 68pts Senior Girls’ Race Place Name Time 1 Grace Sweeney Ireland 12.49 2 Tekea Gebrezgi Ireland 12.54 3 Lorraine McCarthy Ireland 13.11 4 Claire Madigan Ireland 13.23 5 Michelle English Ireland 13.28 6 Leanne Fitzgerald Wales 13.30 7 Maire Nic Amhlaidh DCU 13.31 8 Laura Shaughnessy Ireland 13.32 9 Gwenno Brown Wales 13.45 10 Alaw Beynon-Thomas Welsh Schools 13.47 11 Jenna Roberts Welsh Schools’ 13.52 12 Suzanne Donovan DCU 13.58 13 Michelle Allen Wales 14.01 14 Susan Smyth Ireland 14.03 15 Kayleigh Brown Welsh Schools’ 14.18 16 Jessica Dixon Wales 14.22 17 Leigh Barker Wales 14.28 18 Natalie Allen Wales 14.29 19 Nicola Hackett DCU 14.32 20 Laura Scriven DCU 14.38 21 Becky Davis Welsh Schools’ 14.41 22 Karen Crossan DCU 14.45 23 Carys Howell Welsh Schools’ 14.49 24 Sophie Kendrick Wales 14.54 25 Bethan Davies Wales 14.58 26 Rebecca King Welsh Schools’ 15.20 Teams 1. Ireland 15pts 2. Welsh Schools’ 63pts 3. Wales 73pts 4. DCU 80pts Balazs Csillaf crossing the line to win the men's 5k Deirdre Byrne winning the women's 5k KBC St Patrick's Festival Road Race St Patrick's Day 2008 _______________________________________________________________________ 1 67 Balazs Csillaf 00:14:28 2 98 Colm Rooney Clonliffe Hrs. A.C. 00:14:29 3 4 Brian Maher Kilkenny City Hars 00:14:32 4 787 GaryThornton Galway City Hrs. 00:14:32 5 3 Vinny Mulvey Raheny Shamrocks 00:14:51 6 47 Aidan Bailey Clonliffe Hrs. A.C. 00:15:00 7 1 John Coghlan MSB AC 00:15:01 8 51 Cillian O'Leary Raheny Shamrocks 00:15:02 9 2 James Nolan Clonliffe Hrs. A.C. 00:15:07 10 329 Sean Hehir Rathfarnham 00:15:16 11 352 Simon Ryan Raheny Shamrocks 00:15:28 12 1123 Paul Fleming Rathfarnham 00:15:32 13 219 David Flynn Clonliffe Hrs. A.C. 00:15:32 14 301 Ciaran Doherty 00:15:33 15 48 Bernard Roe Raheny Shamrocks 00:15:43 16 756 dave byrne Tallaght AC 00:15:45 17 64 Garry Crossan Letterkenny AC 00:15:47 18 902 brian leahy Raheny Shamrocks 00:15:52 19 58 Michael Freeley Rathfarnham 00:15:55 20 986 Connor Healy Clonliffe Hrs. A.C. 00:15:56 21 1051 Phil Kilgannon Sportsworld 00:15:58 22 32 David Fitzmaurice Clonliffe Hrs. A.C. 00:16:00 23 300 Eugene O'Neill Crusaders AC 00:16:07 24 136 Paul Cowhie Civil Service AC 00:16:13 25 978 Deidre Byrne Sli Culainn 00:16:18 26 139 Niall Coppinger Tallaght AC 00:16:19 27 1174 Bobby Bedford Civil Service AC 00:16:20 28 302 Paul McGovern 00:16:22 29 91 Daniel Creann 00:16:23 30 78 Thomas Maunsell 00:16:24 31 330 Maria McCambridge DSD AC 00:16:25 32 1127 Mark Dooley 00:16:28 33 321 Tomasz Sommer 00:16:34 34 1016 Simon Reede Raheny Shamrocks 00:16:37 35 778 John Canny Lucan Harriers 00:16:47 36 1132 Rob Cross Crusaders 00:16:50 37 1047 Donal Foley Raheny Shamrocks 00:16:50 38 956 Peter Ftzsimons Tallaght AC 00:16:50 39 29 M Buntu Mlisana 00:16:51 40 336 Jim Gunnelly North East Runners 00:16:51 41 267 Ronan Merrick Sportsworld 00:16:58 42 1075 Annette Kealy Raheny Shamrocks 00:17:03 43 875 Edward McEntee Sportsworld 00:17:04 44 974 Ultan McNasser Sligo AC 00:17:07 45 327 Hazel Murphy DSD AC 00:17:09 46 375 Ed O'Connor Na Fianna 00:17:15 47 130 Ray Hayes 00:17:17 48 220 David Prendiville Donore Harriers 00:17:18 49 782 ronan doolin 00:17:20 50 867 Carl O'Sullivan Raheny Shamrocks 00:17:23