{"id":444382,"date":"2026-05-12T04:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444382\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T04:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:16:10","slug":"kerry-olympian-tom-oriordans-all-ireland-schools-medal-goes-back-to-tralee-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444382\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Olympian Tom O\u2019Riordan\u2019s All-Ireland Schools medal goes back to Tralee CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Several Kerry athletes have qualified for and will compete in the Munster Schools Athletics Championships this Saturday in An R\u00edocht\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ian O\u2019Riordan, left, son of the late Olympian Tom, presents his father\u2019s gold medal won in the All-Ireland Schools\u2019 senior mile in 1956 to Helen Hayes, Deputy Principal of Tralee CBS, and Robert Flaherty, Principal of Tralee CBS. Photo: David Kissane\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/32f7fa5e-3332-4358-900e-eb97c139d792.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ian O\u2019Riordan, left, son of the late Olympian Tom, presents his father\u2019s gold medal won in the All-Ireland Schools\u2019 senior mile in 1956 to Helen Hayes, Deputy Principal of Tralee CBS, and Robert Flaherty, Principal of Tralee CBS. Photo: David Kissane<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The All Ireland Schools\u2019 mile gold medal, won by Tom O\u2019Riordan in Ballinasloe in 1956, was presented to the Green at the weekend. Tom\u2019s son, Ian O\u2019Riordan presented the medal to the Principal of CBS Tralee, Robert Flaherty and Deputy Principal, Helen Hayes to fulfill the wishes of the Olympian who passed away in 2022. The former CBS student from Ardfert went on to a US scholarship, the Tokyo Olympic Games, seven senior national cross-country titles, multiple national track titles, 13 records on the track and was the first Irish athlete to break 14 minutes in the 5,000 meters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The medal will be on display in the trophy cabinet in the Green who were proud to receive the medal from the O\u2019Riordan family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Meanwhile, several of Kerry\u2019s second level students have qualified for the Munster Schools Athletics championships this Saturday in An R\u00edocht.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A range of schools provided medal winners in runs, jumps, throws and walks in the North and South Munster Schools qualifier championships. Among the excellent performers was Kevin O\u2019Shea (Mercy Mounthawk) who created a new championship best performance in the intermediate javelin in the North Munster championships with a monster throw of 64.23m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In the South Munster Schools in MTU in Cork, Lily Riordan (Intermediate School Killorglin) also created a new CBP in the intermediate 3000m with a time of 10:05.14. Both athletes, and many more, will be going into the Munster Schools championships, and beyond, with much hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several Kerry athletes have qualified for and will compete in the Munster Schools Athletics Championships this Saturday in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-444382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}