Munster gold for O’Neill and Rooney

The Munster uneven ages (U-9 to U-19) plus the intermediate cross country championships were held at Waterford IT on Sunday and Clare athletes produced great individual performances. Alex O’Neill (St Cronan’s) took gold in the girls’ U-13 2,500m and Stephan Rooney (Ennis Track) won gold in the boys’ U-17 5,000m.

Ciara Meehan (Marian) and Conor Meaney (Fergus) both won bronze in the girls’ and boys’ U-9 750m and there was also bronze in the girls’ and boys’ U-15 for Caoimhie Harvey (St John’s) and Eoin Looney (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare).

In the inter-club awards, there was double gold for Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare in the girls’ U-11 and boys’ U-13, while Ennis Track won gold in the boys’ U-15 and silver in the boys’ U-13 and U-17.
St John’s won silver medals in the girls’ U-15 and bronze medals in the boys’ U-11.

In the U-9 girls’ inter-club contest, St Mary’s won the silver medals and Marian the bronze medals while in the boys’ U-9 there were silver medals for Fergus AC. St Cronan’s won the silver medals in the girls’ U-13.

In the inter-county awards, six Clare teams won silver medals, U-9 girls and boys’, U-11 girls, U-13 boys and girls, U-15 boys and U-17 boys, with bronze medals for the boys’ U-11 and girls’ U-13.

In the intermediate men’s 8,000m, two Clare athletes produced a great contest, with Damian Landers (St John’s) always in the leading pack. He won a silver medal with Willie Devitt (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare), who led the race at an early stage, finishing 12th. Thomas Garrahy (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare) worked hard to finish 18th, with Joe Mooney (BMOH), 27th followed by Keith Lynch (BMOH) 29th and James Liddane (BMOH) 30th, to lead Clare to the bronze medals. 

Results
Girls’ U-9 750m
3 Ciara Meehan (Marian); 6 Grace Carmody (Marian); 9 Sarah Looney (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare); 11 Neasa Ní Hainefein (Ennis Track); 15 Saoirse Crowe (St Mary’s); 26 Aishling Brown (St Mary’s).
Inter-club
2 St Mary’s = 100 points; 3 Marian = 109 points.
Inter-county
2 Clare = 70 points.
Girls’ U-11s 1,500m
7 Sinéad Lillis Kilmihil; 8 Amy Sexton (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare); 11 Rachel Hartigan (Marian); 13 Daniela Svensson (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare); 18 Susan Nestor (St Mary’s); 19 Hannah Shannon (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare).
Inter-club
1 (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare)  = 68 points.
Inter-county
2 Clare = 76 points.
Girls’ U-13 2,500m
1 Alex O’Neill (St Cronan’s); 9 Caoimhie Hogan (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare); 16 Emily Cahill (St Cronan’s); 18 Caoimhie Carmody (Marian); 22 Mairéad Grogan (St Mary’s); 26 Emer Keane (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare).
Inter-club
2 St Cronan’s (1, 16, 33. Megan White, 59. Leah O Neill) = 109 points.
Inter-county
2 Clare = 92 points.
Girls’ U-15 3,500m
3 Caoimhie Harvey (St John’s); 4 Aisling Kelly (St John’s); 13 Elaine Shannon (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare); 19 Anna Courtney (Marian); 23 Shauna Melican (St John’s); 24 Cliodhna Blake (St John’s).
Inter-club
2 St John’s = 54 points.
Inter-county
3 Clare = 86 points.
Girls’ U-17 4,000m
8 Laura Power (Ennis Track); 14 Róisín Considine (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare); 18 Nollaigh Blake (St John’s); 20 Muireann O’Shea (Marian).
Girls’ U-19 4,000m
8 Emer Hillery (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare).

Boys’ U-9 750m
3 Conor Meaney (Fergus); 4 Cian O’Boyle (Marian); 7 Colin Ryan (Ennis Track); 14 Ciaran Bermingham (St Mary’s); 17 Fionn Cotter (Fergus); 20 Niall Murphy (St Cronan’s).
Inter-club
2 Fergus = 76 points.
Inter-county
2 Clare = 65 points.
Boys’ U-11 1,500m
4 Ben Whelehan (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare); 12 Shane Harrison (St Cronan’s); 17 Shane Meehan (Marian); 19 Conor Blake (St John’s); 22 Killian O’Connor (Kilnaboy); 25 Sabina Kulcynski (Marian).
Inter-club
3 (St John’s)= 167 points.
Inter-county
3 Clare = 99 points.
Boys’ U-13 2,500m
5 Caoilfhionn O’Dea (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare); 6 Aidan McCarthy (St Cronan’s); 10 James McGuire (Ennis Track); 11 Donal Devane (Ennis Track); 13 Cian Shannon (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare); 25 Conor Devane (Ennis Track).
Inter-club
1 (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare)  = 78 points; 2 (Ennis Track) = 86 points.
Inter-county
2 Clare = 70 points.
Boys’ U-15 3,500m
3 Eoin Looney (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare); 6 Jamie Roche (Ennis Track); 10 Stephan Maher (Ennis Track); 14 Paul Martin (Ennis Track); 17 Mark Fennell (St Mary’s); 26 Sean Rouine (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare).
Inter-club
1 Ennis Track = 60 points.
Inter-county
2 Clare = 76 points.
Boys’ U-17 5,000m
1 Stephan Rooney (Ennis Track); 4 Kevin Mulcaire (Ennis Track); 14 Patrick Chesser (Ennis Track); 18 Conal O h-Ainfein (Ennis Track); 22 Oisín Owens (Ennis Track); 24 Noah McMahon (Ennis Track).
Inter-club
2 Ennis Track  = 37 points.
Inter-county
2 Clare = 83 points.
Boys’ U-19 6,000m
8 Karl Fitzmaurice (Shannon); 12 Ian Slobody (Kilmihil); 15 Domhnaill Rodgers (St John’s); 19 Conor Madigan (St John’s) 24 Cillian Blake (St John’s).
Intermediate men 8,000m
2 Damian Landers (St John’s); 12 Willie Devitt (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare); 18 Thomas Garrahy (Kilmurry Ibrickane-North Clare); 27 Joe Mooney (BMOH); 29 Keith Lynch (BMOH); 30 James Liddane (BMOH).
Inter-county
3 Clare = 118 points.