Athletics: Huge congrats to the following who completed the Dublin City Marathon on Monday 29th October: Brian Murphy 2:52.41, Denis McCaul 3:33:22 (#4922) , Josephine Creedon, 03:44:12 Con Twomey 03:44:21, Thomas O’Leary 3:50:34, Sheila Tarrant 03:54:14, Tina Dunstan 8hrs 7mins (#13249) (she’s the girl that won the Cullen Weight Loss Programme earlier this year)
Cork County Novice B & Juvenile B Cross Country, Conna, 28th October 2012 [full results]
Girls U9: 6th Orla O’Leary. Girls U11: 50th Rachel Coughlan. Girls U/13: 9th Caoimhe O’Leary, 11th Emily Ring, 25th Shannon O’Sullivan, 40th Niamh Tarrant. Millstreet team 3rd. Girls U15: 5th Chloe Collins, 7th Megan Ring, 8th Kate Buckley, 9th Maire O’Connor, 10th Kirsten Murphy. Millstreet 1st in team event. Boys U11: 22nd Daniel Buckley, 24th David Dineen, 40th James Buckley, 47th Ian Buckley Boys U/15: 8th Darragh McSweeney
GAA: U18 FL P2 semi-final: Fermoy 1-9 Millstreet 0-6, in Fermoy 8pm Fri 26th Oct
Cork Senior Football Final: Castlehaven 1-7 Duhallow 0-9, 3:15pm 28th October in Páirc Uí Chaoímh
Soccer: AUL 1A: Buttevant 6 Millstreet Celtic 4, Fri 26th Oct 7.30pm
AUL 3B: Los Zarcos 2 Bweeng 0, Sat 3rd November 2pm [Conor Lane 25mins, Denny Twomey penalty save 46mins, Darren Murphy 65mins]
AUL 1A: Greenmount Rangers 0 Rathcoole Rovers 1, Sat 3rd November 2pm (Rathcoole are in 2nd place after 6 games with four wins to their name) [AUL tables]
CSL U16 Div 3: Carrigaline Hibernians 1 Rathcoole Rovers 2, 4th Oct (top of the table with 12 points after 4 games)
Greyhounds: Ballydaly Bid came home second in a time of 29.56 in race 7 The Carrigdhoun Carvery 525 09:20 Approx. (525 Yds. Flat) (Race Grade : A5) in Curraheen Park on Friday Oct 26th
Crossfield Star did enough to qualify from his first round heat of the St.Leger in Limerick on Saturday night (27th Oct) in a slow time of 30.67 (top four qualify from each heat) (Grade : AA0) Flat 550. The next round is on the coming Saturday night Nov 3rd. [see the full St.Leger draws] [see race video below]
Millridge Slave won the final of the Domino’s Pizza Sweepstake in Tralee on Oct 26th [report in the Kerryman]
Millridge Silver won his first round heat of the Aware Ireland Sweepstake (Grade : A5) Flat 525 in a time of 29.21 at Tralee greyhound track Saturday night 27th Oct. [see race video below]
Donie O’Mahony had three dogs on Tuesday Oct 30th in Tralee: Millridge Euro coming third in race 1, Millridge Spice coming second in Race 3, and Millridge Ghost coming third in race 4.
Coursing: In Mallow last Wednesday 24th Oct, Tanyard Kylie (Dan O’Donoghue) beat Cleanaway Rodge (Con O’Connor) in the second round of the All Ages Cup, but failed to make it past the semi-final.
TaeKwon-do: Jordan Dalton who trains for TaeKwon-do in the Millstreet GAA Hall, won gold at the TKD International European Championships, Saturday 28th October in Poland.
Show Jumping: The Owners Pony & Young Riders Charity Show was held on Friday 26th, Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th October, 2012, at the Green Glens Arena. Full results/ photos etc. at ownerscharityshow2012.com
Horse Racing: Good to hear that Andrias Guerin is back riding over jumps after he was injured earlier in the year. He was riding in Chepstow last Saturday for Neil Mulholland, but unfortunately was unseated.
Fixtures:
Videos:
Millridge Silver (Donie O’Mahony) gets away well and is under severe pressure for the first half of the race, but pulls away for a comfortable victory at Tralee greyhound track Saturday night 27th Oct
Race favourite Crossfield Star (Brendan O’Shea, Cockhill) was pushed very wide at the first bend, but ran on well to qualify for the second round of the St.Leger next weekend
Photos
Well to do all the locals who completed the Dublin marathon – special congrats to Denis McCaul who had such a great time on his first marathon. And to Thomas O’Leary…stick with it Tom, stick with it….