{"id":475433,"date":"2026-05-31T00:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475433\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T00:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:41:11","slug":"local-athletes-shine-at-all-ireland-schools-track-field-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475433\/","title":{"rendered":"Local athletes shine at All-Ireland Schools Track &#038; Field finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were some impressive local performances this weekend at the 2026 123.ie All-Ireland Schools Track &amp; Field Championships in Tullamore with Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal athletes excelling in a variety of events.<\/p>\n<p>The Senior Boys 5000m was won by Lucas Lyons (St. Clare\u2019s Comprehensive Manorhamilton) who kicked passed Diarmuid Moloney (Nenagh CBS) with 300m to go.<\/p>\n<p>Lyon\u2019s winning time of 14:21.68 was only four seconds outside John Treacy\u2019s championship record which has stood for over fifty years.<\/p>\n<p>Lucie Cawley (Mercy College Sligo) delivered a masterclass in front-running to obliterate her own championship record in the Intermediate Girls 1500m Steeplechase.<\/p>\n<p>Cawley took control of the race from the gun and crossed the line in a time of 4:46.72. Her previous record, set last year, was 5:01.84.<\/p>\n<p>Ava Colreavy (Ursuline College Sligo) took the spoils in the Intermediate Girls race in an imperssive time of 9:28.60.<\/p>\n<p>Caolan Gilbride (Magh Ene College, Bundoran)\u00a0 won an impressive silver medal in the senior boys 1500m final.<\/p>\n<p>Erin Friel (Loreto Letterkenny) won the senior girls 400 metres final.<\/p>\n<p>Friel, who made her Irish senior international debut at the World Athletics Relays earlier this month, clocked a time of 54.59.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were some impressive local performances this weekend at the 2026 123.ie All-Ireland Schools Track &amp; Field Championships&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-475433","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\/475433","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=475433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}