Liscarroll

LISCARROLL AC

At a reception in the River Lee Hotel, Cork, Aoife O’Sullivan was presented with the Cork City Sports Athletics Awards for the month of August 2019. This prestigious award is given to athletes whose performances at a certain discipline during the year. Aoife= discipline is the high jump at which she excelled in at County, Munster, All-Ireland and International level. She competed in approximately 16 competitions at which she medalled in each one. Her best jump during the year was at senior level at the Munster Championships, in Templemore on June 9. The height jumped on this occasion was 1.78m. Congratulations to her on achieving such a standard and receiving this award.

AVONDHU CROSS COUNTRY– inaugural Avondhu Cross Country event was held at Knockardbane, Liscarroll on Sunday last and turned out to be a huge success. All track and field clubs in the Diviision were represented as followsL Fanahan McSweeney, Grange Fermoy, North Cork, Millstreet, Liscarroll, along with road clubs Churchtown Roadrunners, Mount Hillary and Mallow.

Liscarroll AC were represented by twenty two of our young athletes in u8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and senior.

Results: Girls u8, 1st Lexie King, Liscarroll; 2nd Cristine McElvaney, Grange Fermoy; 3rd Mairead O’Sullivan, North Cork.

Boys u8: 1st Mason Walsh, North Cork; 2nd Kyle Hunter, North Cork; 3rd Liam Bluett, North Cork.

Girls u10: 1st Emma Flynn, North Cork; 2nd Emiliy McElvaney, Grange Fermoy; 3rd Michaela Flynn, North Cork; 4th Clara Whelan, Liscarroll.

Boys u10: 1st Sean O’Riordan, Fanahan McSweeney; 2nd David Towey, Fanahan McSweeney; 3rd Oisin Philips, Liscarroll AC.

Girls u12: 1st Rachel Flynn, Grange Fermnoy; 2nd Caoilinn Ryan, North Cork; 3rd Emily Browne, North Cork.

Boys u12: 1st Sean O’Callaghan, North Cork. 2nd Tomas Kiely, North Cork; 3rd Ian Buckley, North Cork.

Girls u14: 1st Sinead Walsh, North Cork; 2nd Niamh Lavery, North Cork.

Boys u14: 1st Ronan B Hogan, North Cork; 2nd Johnny Murphy, Liscarroll.

Girls u16: 1st Aniela B Hogan, North Cork; 2nd Emer Lavery, North Cork; 3rd Camille Ni Shuilleabhain, North Cork.

Boys u16: 1st Robert Troy, Liscarroll; 2nd Bill Collins, Liscarroll; 3rd Rory Troy, Liscarroll; 4th Eoin Tynan, Liscarroll.

Junior/Senior/Masters: 1st Padraig Sheahan, Millstreet; 2nd Jason Thompson, Mount Hillary; 3rd Conor McElvaney, Grange Fermoy.

We as members of Liscarroll AC and Churchtown Roadrunners wish to thank all our members who helped out or participated in the races on the day. A special word of thanks must go to the O=92Brien family on whose lands the event was held. Thanks to everyone who supported the event.

TRAINING–Mondays: 7-8pm. Thursdays: Little Athletics 6.307.30pm. Fridays: 6.30-7.30pm.

COUNTY CROSS COUNTRY– Next Sunday is another big day for Liscarroll AC with the Cork County Cross Country Championships taking place at the same venue as the Avondhu last Sunday.

The age groups for this event are even age, ie, u10 (born 201011), u12 (born 2008-09), u14 (born 2006-07), u16 (born 2004-05), u18 (born 2002-03), junior and novice. Hope to see you all there again.

TRAFFIC CAUTION–People living in the vicinity of Knockardbane are advised that there will be extra traffic coming into the Cross Country from early Sunday morning up to mid afternoon and we would like to keep the roadway from the junction to Castle Street to O’Connell Cross, free of parked cars and traffic not going to the Cross Country if possible. Thanks in advance to everyone living in the area.

CROSS COUNTRY DATES– Sunday 6th October; County Juvenile Even Age, Under 23 & Novice X- Country at Knockardbane, Liscarroll. Even Age Juveniles,U10,U12,U14,U16, U18,U23, Junior & Novice etc.

Sunday 13th October; County Juvenile Uneven Age (U9,U11,U13,U15,U17,u19), Senior, Cross- Country at West Muskerry

Sunday 20th October; MunsterJuvenile Evenage,U20,U 23 & Novice X- Country at Limerick Race Course

Sunday 27th October; County Juvenile B & Intermediate X-Country at Dromtariffe

Sunday 3rd November; County Masters & Novice B at St Nicholas

Sunday 10th November; Munster Juvenile Unevenage & Senior X-Country at Conna ,Cork

Sunday 17th November; Munster Masters & Juvenile Relays X-Country at Beaufort, Kerry

Sunday 1st December; Munster Juvenile B, & Intermediate X-Country at Two Mile Borris,Tipperary