St. Stephens Day 5K Road Race 2014

Farranfore Maine Valley AC 53rd Annual St. Stephens Day Road race was held on Friday 26th December 2014. It was a very wet morning with a cool breeze. Thankfully by the race start time the rain had eased so conditions were reasonably good.
There was 340 entries for this years run.
This is an out and back course but unfortunately due to some miscommunication the return mark was not placed correctly which resulted in the runners were forced to run an extra 650m. The total distance was 5.65Km. We apologise for this.
Please take note of this in the finish result times. For the average runner your times would be around 3mins more than a normal 5K.

We would like to thank all our race organisers & volunteers for their continued support each year. Without your time it would not be possible to host this race each year. A special thanks to our main sponsors: LEE STRAND, DUNNES STORES, MORIARTY's CENTRA FOODSTORE, KEVIN BARRY General Grocers & LIDL Castleisland.

Tim O'Connor (An Riocht) from the start took command of the race, he maintained his impressive performance to cross the line in 1st place with almost 30sec to spare from 2nd place Anthony Mannix. Simon Mangan did very well to take 3rd place with Donal O' Callaghan only a second behind. Tim was awarded the course record prize as with some calculations it was clear that the current record of 16:03 for 5K would have been broken.

Maria McCarthy (FFMV) ran very well to retain her 1st place position. Carol Finn Leevale AC was 2nd with Corrina Teahan of St. Finbarrs 3rd.

Full Results: Race Results 2014
Selection of Photos from Flickr: HERE & through Facebook HERE

Top Male Finishers
1 17:49.6 Tim O Connor An Riocht AC

Tim O'Connor - Winner of the
Fr. Dan Brown Perpetual Cup

2 18:22.6 Anthony Mannix Leevale AC
3 18:36.2 Simon Mangan Gneeveguilla AC
4 18:37.5 Donal O Callaghan An Riocht AC
5 18:41.7 Cian Murphy Iveragh AC
6 18:48.3 Cillian Tierney Unattached
O40
7 19:12.0 Shane Simcox Mallow AC
10 19:39.1 Tommy O Brien An Riocht AC
O45
8 19:16.5 Robert Purcell Snr Gneeveguilla AC
9 19:25.8 Frank Conway Iveragh AC
O50
21 20:13.7 Eamonn Monaghan Enniskillen R.C
26 20:48.3 Gerard Ladden FFMV
O60
81 23:50.6 Con O Brien Unattached
130 26:01.2 Jerry TWOHIG Duhallow AC
Junior
34 21:16.0 Michael O Shea FFMV
U17
59 22:36.5 David Kenny FFMV
62 22:46.0 Andrew Purcell Gneeveguilla AC


Top Female Finishers

20 20:10.4 Maria McCarthy FFMV
23 20:27.9 Carol Finn Leevale AC
28 20:56.1 Corrina Teahan St. Finbarrs AC
42 21:45.3 Deirdre Nagle Eagle AC
43 21:47.0 Caitriona Barry FFMV
45 21:53.0 Edel Monaghan Omagh Harriers
O35
132 26:06.7 Maira McKenna Unattached
173 28:20.3 Kathleen Reidy Born To Run

O40
46 21:57.5 Aoife O Connor Clonliffe Harriers
113 25:14.1 Eileen Butler Sportsworld
O45

110 25:08.8 Liz Lynch Unattached
194 29:19.9 Bernie O Mahony Unattached
O50

66 22:58.4 Sharon Cahill An Riocht AC
80 23:44.1 Caroline Murphy Gneeveguilla AC
O60

112 25:11.5 Carmel MacDomhnaill West Limerick AC
332 42:41.8 Joan O Sullivan Unattached
333 42:42.4 Marian Costello Unattached
Junior

91 24:19.0 Aoife Mahony Listowel AC
U17
124 25:50.0 Natasha Myers FFMV
147 26:48.2 Shauna McCarthy FFMV

Club Novice Winners were Michael O' Shea & Maria Moriarty