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Olympic athlete Paul Hession was back in action last weekend at the Woodie’s DIY Senior Irish Championships in the Odyssey Arena, Belfast, posting a winning time in the 60m sprint.

Maher makes his mark

Seven Mayo AC athletes won a total of 20 medals at the AAI National Masters Indoors Championships at Nenagh. As usual it was colder track-side than outside at this venue. Club chairman Padraic Cullina set the standard on Saturday in the combined events quadrathlon. He amassed a fine total of 1,419 points competing in the 60 metres, long jump, shot, and 1,000 metres to win gold. On Sunday, when the indoors championship events took place, he won gold in the long jump and silver in the high jump in over 50 category. Patrick Moran (over 55) won four medals — gold in the high jump, silver in both the long jump and 400 metres, and bronze in 1,500 metres. PJ Hall (over 50) was one of four Mayo AC athletes competing indoors for the first time. He won silver in 200 metres and bronze 60 metres. Breege Blehein-McHale (over 40) won gold and silver medals. Ann Murray (over 45) won three silver medals in the 800m, 1,500m, and 3,000m, and Anthony Devaney (over 35) won silver in the 3,000m and bronze in the 800m. Tom Hunt (over 60) was second in the 400m and 3,000m and third in 800m and 1,500m. This was a great start to the championship year for Mayo AC and they will be looking to add to this medal haul at the intermediate and masters cross country at Forest Park in Boyle on February 21.

Local councillors expressed their good wishes to Kilkenny’s two athletes, 400 metre hurdler Joanne Cuddihy and hammer thrower Eileen O’Keeffe who will represent Ireland at the Olympic games next month.

The Morton Stadium in Santry witnessed three world records, the one mile, two mile and three mile, in the summer of 1958. Fifty years on and a large international field at the Morton Memorial Meet on Friday night failed to set any records but delighted the spectators with the quality of their performances. The definitive event, the Morton Memorial Mile, saw the first nine finishers achieve sub four minute miles with victory going to Rob Myers, USA in 3 minutes 56.23 secs.

Three golds were awarded to Kilkenny City Harrier (KCH) girls Aoife Hickey and Mary Kate Lanigan at the Celtic games in Grangemouth, Scotland on Saturday.

Ciara Everard was honoured by the Athletic Association of Ireland (AAI) at the annual Juvenile Awards night held in The Arklow Bay Hotel on Friday last.

•FAI chief executive John Delaney will turn the first sod on the new Oughterard Association Football Club sports facilities on Thursday week. The new sports pitches and facilities are located at New Village, Oughterard. Phase one - the construction of the first natural grass pitch and ground works for the 10 acre site - has commenced and will cost €650,000. In order to raise the estimated total costs of €1.5 million for the full site development, OAFC is hosting a pitchmaker draw on St Patrick’s Day 2009. Prizes include a sporty Mazda 2 car, boat and trailer, €2,000 Marks & Spencer voucher, €1,000 holiday voucher, and laptop. Tickets for the draw are €50 and are available by emailing [email protected] or calling 085-1000 074.

On a less than ideal day for high jumping Adrian O’Dwyer, Kilkenny City Harriers, made a satisfactory return to outdoor competition over the weekend. Taking part in the AAI Games in Athlone he was the comfortable winner of the high jump competition with a final bar clearance of 2.00m.

A beautiful sunny day in Tullamore on Saturday was made all the more memorable by the quality performances by the Kilkenny athletes. Various commentators suggest this was one of the most competitive schools finals for many years.