Pictured at the launch of the Waterford AC Half Marathon which takes place on Saturday 5th December at 10.00am in the WIT Sports Campus, Carriganore, Waterford were Mark Kenny, Regional Manager and Vincent Keane, South East Accounts Manager, from sponsors New Ireland Assurance. Also included are Trevor Walsh, Chairman, Waterford AC, Tony Quinlan, Vinny Codd, Trevor Power, Kieran O’Mahoney and Keith O’Driscoll, Waterford AC. Entries for the Half Marathon close on Friday 20th November. Photo: Noel Browne.

Entries for Waterford Half Marathon on Saturday December 5th close on this Friday. It will be a big weekend in Waterford athletics circles with the Half Marathon in the city on Saturday morning and the All Ireland Cross Coutry fixture in Abbeyside on the Sunday December 6th.

All Ireland Cross Country
The first GloHealth All Ireland Cross Country Championships of the season take place on Sunday morning next at Santry Demesne in Dublin.
On the programme are the Championships for boys and girls under 12, 14, 16 and 18 as well as the Inter Club senior championships,
Waterford will be represented at the fixture with individual competitors as well as teams and we wish all well. In the senior men’s
Ferrybank AC have a team entered led by Shane Quinn the other members are Andrew Connick, Brian Gallagher and Louis O’Carroll. the Winter
League in the city continues this Thursday at 7 pm from the RSC, come early and please clear reflective clothing.

County B Cross Country
Small fields were the order of the day at the County B Juvenile Cross Country Championships in Abbeyside on Sunday last and the following
were the individual winners.Girls U9: 1st: Áine Fitzgerald (KCK), 2nd: Rebecca Murray (KCK), 3rd: Emma Corkery (Tramore ) Boys U9: 1st:
Charlie Feeney (WW), 2nd: Mossie Keogh (WW), 3rd: Nicky Fitzpatrick (WW ), Girls U11: 1st: Ciara Power (KCK), Rachel Mooney (Tramore),
Isobel Casey (Ferrybank), Boys U11: 1st: Daryl Harty (WW), 2nd: Paudie Barry (KCK), 3rd: Ronan Mansfield (WW), Girls U13: 1st: Ellen Boylan
(KCK), 2nd: Aisling Power (KCK), 3rd: Anna Comerford (Ferrybank),Boys U13: 1st: Nathan Bagge (Ferrybank), 2nd: Eoin Kiely (WW), 3rd: Kieran
Dower (WW), Girls U15: 1st: Danni Cunningham (WW), 2nd: Róisín Dunphy (KCK), 3rd: Sarah Stone (Tramore) Boys U15: 1st: Luke Power (WW), 2nd: Thomas Hogarty (WW), 3rd: Ciarán Frisby (WW).
The following were the results in the trials for Munster Relays in January. County Relay Trials. Girls U10: 1st: Róisín Power (KCK), 2nd: Hannah McGrath (KCK), 3rd: Rebecca Walsh (KCK), 4th: Méabh Kiely (WW),Boys U10: 1st: Corey Scanlon (Finisk Valley), 2nd: Ian Holmes (WW), 3rd: Darragh O’ Regáin (WW), 4th: David Gaffney (WW) Girls U12: 1st: Ellen Boylan (KCK), 2nd: Kate Keogh (WW), 3rd: Caoimhe Prendergast (WW), 4th: Orla Walsh (WAC), Boys U12: 1st: Tommy Fennell (WW), 2nd: Tom Halley (Tramore), 3rd: Ben Kiely (Tramore), 4th: Eoin Kiely (WW)Girls U14: 1st: Mary Kate Prendergast (WW), 2nd: Megan Keogh (WW), 3rd: Kate Killigrew (WW), 4th: Sarah Stone (Tramore),Boys U14: 1st: Padraig Fitzgerald (KCK), 2nd: Callum Hurley (Ferrybank), 3rd: Seamus Fitzgerald (KCK), 4th: Ethan Hurley (Ferrybank).

Masters News
At the British and Irish Masters Cross Country in Dublin on Saturday last Mary B Ryan Jennings Waterford was on the Irish over 60 team that won the silver medals.

Awards
The GloHealth National Athletics Awards on Wednesday 25th of November in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Santry promises to be another engaging afternoon celebrating the many successes of Irish athletics from the past year. The event crowns the many successes of our leading athletes but also recognises the work of the core volunteer base and club system which is the bedrock of the association. Mark English (UCD AC) was named as the Athlete of the Year last year for his bronze medal over 800m at the European championships in Zurich in 2014. The UCD athlete will be in contention once more for his silver medal over 800m at the European Indoors in Prague but will face stiff competition from Thomas Barr (Ferrybank) who won the World University Games 400m hurdles title in South Korea and Robert Heffernan who finished fifth at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing. Two-time world indoor champion Frank O’Mara from Limerick is to be honoured with the Hall of Fame award at the Awards, he was an outstanding middle distance runner