Best of luck all the athletes who will be competing in the 2nd leg of the West Cork Track & Field Championships in CIT on Sat.
First races are scheduled for a 1pm start.
Program and Order of events is available here

Please note…
All athletes are advised to wear spikes for Long Jump, TurboJavelin and High Jump events. In the event of wet conditions participation may be refused on the interests of safety if spikes are not used.

Slightly further afield, a number of club members will be in action in the Irish Colleges Track & Field Championships in Waterford on Fri and Sat, so wishing them the best of luck also.

IRISH ATHLETES AND THE OLYMPIC GAMES, STOCKHOLM 1912 by Colm Murphy [ex Cork athletics 70s/80s]

Saturday, May 3rd at Bandon Bookshop in Riverview Shopping Centre at 2pm [after the road race!].

430 pages, softback, heavily illustrated. Much new information and data with previously unpublished pictures. Focus and emphasis is on Irish based athletes although American based – including the Whales – included. Cork athletes such as Bill Bennett, Bob Hales, Michael Dineen etc included.
Cost of book is €15.

The book is also available via post at €18 [cheques payable to ‘C Murphy’ at 92 Rochester Avenue, Rochester, KENT ME1 2DR, England].

Some photos from the recent Half Marathon press launch in the Bandon Rugby Club.
Photos taken by Donie Hurley, Ratharoon,

A productive day today for most of the Bandon athletes competing in the Leevale sports.
Patrick McSweeney won the men’s hammer and shot putt. Phil Healy won the 100m and was 3rd in 200m. Laura McSweeney was 2nd in both the shot putt and hammer. Fintan OShaughnessy was 3rd in the long jump.
Others who competed included Erin Kingston (5th Shot) Carla Hicks (4th Pole Vault) Joey Henchy (3rd in heat of 100m) Promise Okafor (5th in heat of 200m)

Best of luck to any junior and senior athletes competing in Leevale sports on Saturday and to any juvenile members who are competing on Sunday.

Photos from the recent awards night courtesy of Trevor Collins

A successful club awards night was held earlier tonight in the Bandon Grammar School with club Chairman Tom Laffan acting as M.C. for the night.

Club secretary Teresa ODonovan received the Club Person of The Year Award in recognition of all the hard work she does behind the scenes.

Other awards presented included

XC – u9 Ciara Whyte
Results included:
3rd in County XC
8th in Munster
Member of Cork team which won Silver in Munster SC

T&F u9 – Eoghan Cassidy
Results included:
Winner of the County u9 TurboJavelin, 2nd in the Long Jump
and part of a team which was 2nd in the Munster turboJavelin
part of a team which was 2nd in All Ireland Turbojavelin in Donegal

XC u11 – Callum McCourt
3rd in COunty
8th in Munster ‘B’
1st in All-Ireland ‘B’
Helped Bandon and Cork to Gold medals at Munster ‘B’

T&F u11 – Mark Collins
Results included:
Winner of Bronze medals at County in Shot Putt and Turbojavlin
Winner of Munster Combined Events
Part of team which finished 2nd in the Munster and 1st in the All-Ireland for TurboJavelin

XC – U13 Fiona Harrington
8th in Munster ‘B’
Part of Cork team which won Gold in All-Ireland B

T&F u13 – Aisling Cassidy
Results included:
1st County Sprint hurdles
Silver medals in County High Jump and Long Jump
3rd in the Indoor Combined Events at Munster Level and 2nd in the Outdoor Combined Events
Silver medal in Munster hurdles
Bronze medal in Munster High jump

XC – U15 Laura Nicholson
Member off the Cork and Munster teams helping them Gold and Silver in All-Ireland at u14
finished in 8th place at u15 and scored on the Munster team who won gold and Cork team who won Silver as well as helping Bandon to Silver.
7th in Munster at u15 and helped Cork to Gold
1st in County at u14
3rd in County at u15 and helped Bandon to Gold

T&F u15 – Moira Barrett
Results included:
County medals in High Jump, 800m, 200m , 1500m, Hurdles
Munster Silver medals both indoor and outdoor Combined Events
Munster Bronze medal in High Jump

XC U19 Fiona Everard
represent Ireland in the Celtic games in January.
All-Ireland u16 in 8th place and scored on the Cork team which won silver and on the Munster team who won Gold.
All-Ireland u17 in 9th place. helped Munster win the Bronze medal and Cork team win the bronze medal
4th in Munster u17 and helped team win Silver
2nd in County U17
1st in County u16 and helped Bandon to win team Gold

T&F u19 – Colin Kingston
Results included:
County Gold medals in Shot Putt, Hammer and Discus u18
Munster Gold Shot Putt indoor and outdoors u18
Munster Silver Discus medal u18
Medal winner in Shot and Discus at Munster u20’s
Medal winner in Shot and Discus at All-Ireland u20’s

XC – Overall – Mark O’Sullivan
3rd in annual CIT XC Race
16th U23 over in All-Ireland
9th in the All-Ireland Colleges XC
Winner of the Killarney 5k race

T&F Overall – Laura McSweeney
Results included:
County Gold medals in Shot Putt, Hammer,Discus, javelin and High Jump at u19
County Gold medals in Shot Putt, Hammer,Discus at u20 level
Munster Gold medals in Shot Putt and Hammer and Bronze in Discus at u19
All-Ireland Gold medals in Shot Putt, Hammer and Bronze in Discus
Medal winner in Shot and Hammer at Munster u20’s
Medal winner in Shot and Hammer at All-Ireland u20’s

Masters – Carmel Crowley
Munster Masters XC finished in second place. Won the O45 section of the race
3rd in County Senior XC
10th in All-Ireland Masters XC and helped Cork team win Bronze
Represented Ireland in Masters XC

The club will be hosting its annual club awards night tomorrow the 2nd April in Bandon Grammar School at 7pm.
All athletes and parents are invited to attend.