At the Cork County Annual Awards night in the River Lee Hotel on Friday night there was a number of club members who received awards.

Receiving Awards to commemorate an International appearance in 2013 were:
Roisin Howard who represented Ireland in Combined Events in Portugal in June.
Carmel Crowley who represented Ireland in Cross Country at the British & Irish Masters Cross Country in Novemeber,
Patrick McSweeney who represented Irish Universities in the Shot Putt in June.
Phil Healy who represented Ireland in the Europa Cup relay and also competing in the European Juniors in Italy in the 100m and 200m

A number of awards were also presented to Aspiring Athletes in recognition of their achievements in 2013 and receiving these were;
Phil Healy for her performances in 100m and 200m which including setting Irish Schools records in both events.
Laura McSweeney for her performances in the Hammer which included winning U19 All-Ireland, placing 3rd in u20 All-Ireland and 5th in National Seniors.
Fiona Duggan for her performance in the Discus which included winning U18 All-Ireland, placing 3rd in Munster u18, 1st in County u18 and placing 2nd in County u20

Well done to all.
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Best of luck to all the athletes competing in Nenagh at the weekend.
On Sat there is the Juvenile Combined Events and the Juvenile relays, while on Sun its the turn of the u20, u23, Senior and Master athletes.

Timetables for both days are on the Munster Athletics site

The Cork Athletics Annual Awards & Munster Star Awards are taking place over the coming weeks. with a number of club members lined up to receive awards.

At the Cork Athletics Annual Awards on the 17th Jan in the Riverlee Hotel in Cork the following will be receiving awards
– Carmel Crowley
– Roisin Howard
– Patrick McSweeney
– Phil Healy
– Laura McSweeney
– Fiona Duggan

While at the Munster Star Awards on the 25th Jan in the Tower Hotel Waterford awards will be presented to
– Patrick McSweeney
– Bandon A.C for best club at Munster ‘B’ Cross Country

Well done to all recipients and everyone who contributed to the awards.

Congratulations to Aisling Cassidy who won a well deserved Bronze medal in the u14 All Ireland combined events Sat in Athlone.
Also competing but finishing outside the medals were; Ciara McKweon, Ella Stack and Laura Nicolson.
Well done to all four girls.

Also on Sat was an Athletics Ireland Assistant Coach which was held in the Bandon Grammar School which 18 club members attended. It’s great to see such a large number of people pursuing coaching qualifications so well done to all who attended.

Well done to Phil Healy who on Sunday took part in an Open Grand Prix in Cardiff. Contesting the 60m, Phil won her heat and then followed that up with a new PB of 7.43 to win the final also.

Well done to the Bandon athletes who contested the first indoor event of the new year.
The National Indoor League took place in Athlone on Sun 5th and while Bandon didn’t field a team there was some impressive individual performances. Phil Healy won thr 60m in a fast time of 7.46 which puts her 10th in the 60m all time list. Joan Healy (7.68), Scott Gibson (7.33), Joey Henchy (7.31), Daniel Hathaway (7.68) also contested the 60m’s.
Ronan Duggan finished 5th in the 800m in a time of 2.01.15
Erin Kingston contested her first senior competition in the Women’s Shot and placed 3rd with an impressive throw of 9.56m

At the Celtic Cross Country International in Antrim on the 4th, Fiona Everard was a member of the Irish U17 team and she crossed the line 35th in the combined u17/u20 race and was 17th in the u17 race.
Well done Fiona on this great achievement.

Well done to all the athletes who took part in the club’s annual Donough Coughlan Memorial 5 Mile race and thanks to all those who helped out with the organising of the race.
Special thanks for Bandon GAA for the use of the facilities, Bandon Guards for assistance in traffic management, Red Cross for ambulance cover and John Walshe for his value contribution to the results and entries.
Bandon A.C is celebrating its 50 year in 2014 and as a resulted invited founding members to the road race and we were delighted to have 6 of the original 24 founding members present.
John Byrne (the 1st secretary of the club), Denis Galvin (1st assistance secretary) John Lynch, John Dromey, Sean Hyde and the current club President Billy Good.
Billy led the presentation of the prizes and was assisted by the other founding members.

First past the post in the race was David McCarthy from West Waterford in a new course record of 23.41 which beat the old record and David was presented with the Donough Coughlan Memorial Cup was Mrs Nora Coughlan.
David was followed home by Sean McGrath (East Cork), Philip Hearty (West Waterford) and with a trio from St Finbarr’s competing the first 6; John Meade, John Marshall and Alex O’Shea.
St Finbarr’s won the team prize, just ahead of West Waterford.

Clare McSweeney of Leevale was the first woman home in a time of 29.13.She was followed by Niamh Walsh and Ann Moore both of Leevale, in 4th was Jackie Dunphy of Clonliffe Harriers, Ronnie Barry of Bandon was 5th with Anna Dorris of Midleton in 6th.
Leevale won the team prize.

Other prize winners listed below:
Junior Men: Thomas McCarthy, Barry McCarthy, Killian McSweeney (all Bandon)
Junior Women: Margaret O’Brien (Clon RR), Bebhinn Kelleher, Una Sheehan (Bandon)
Men O40: David Ryan, George Murray, Michael Harrington
Men 045: Don Keohane, Fergal O’Meara, Keith Sexton
Men O50: Cathal O’Connell, Padraig McCarthy, Julian Spense
Men O55: Pat Murphy
Men O60: Pat Twomey
Men O65: Jimmy Murray
Men O70: John O’Leary
Women O40: Deirdre Harrington, Rachel O’Callaghan, Dolores Gibbons
Women O45: Fidelma Kirwan, Eileen Buckley, Gemma Moran
Women O50: Ann Donnelly

Click here for list of all finishers.
More photos on Cork Running Blog

Photos from Sharon Nevin

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