European Gold for Niall Murphy & Irish U20 team
NIALL MURPHY has brought a gold European medal back to Co Clare.
NIALL MURPHY has brought a gold European medal back to Co Clare.
Diarmaid Nash at the Pat Kirby memorial in Tuamgraney. Photograph: Gordon Daly Back with a bang for the third year, The Clare Echo’s sporting awards applaud the great and good from within the county.
ENNIS’ DEAN CASEY has won a bronze medal at the European Cross Country Championships with Mark Hanrahan also part of the U20 team that won the overall silver medal.
ENNIS’ Dean Casey has finished thirteenth in the World U20 5000m Athletics Championship Final.
DEAN CASEY WILL be flying the Clare and Irish flag at the World U20 Athletics Championships next week.
SUCCESSES OF ENNIS sporting stars is to be honoured with a mayoral reception.
*Photograph: Ramsey Cardy / Sportsfile ST FLANNAN’S COLLEGE took the team gold in the senior boy’s race at the Irish Life Health All Ireland Schools Championships.
The dedication and hard work of Ennis Track AC’s European champions has been hailed after the club enjoyed one of its greatest ever days.
Another sporting year has been and gone, some of the events are worthy of books in their own right, for now let’s look back and savour the memories as The Clare Echo’s Head of News & Sport Páraic McMahon dishes out the 2021 Clare Echo Sporting Awards.
*Team Ireland, from left, Jamie Battle, Darragh McElhinney, Michael Power, Keelan Kilrehill, Donal Devane and Thomas Devaney celebrate with their gold medals for the U23 Men’s 8000m team event during the SPAR European Cross Country Championships. Photo by Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile GOLD and silver medals from the European Cross Country Championships will return to Co Clare.