Tom Brennan 5k Well done to Lavinia Leahy and Pauric Ennis who competed in the New Year's annual Tom Brennan 5k today in the Phoenix Park. The race hosted by Liffey Valley AC attracted a high quality field. Pauric was 17th overall with a time of 17.09 and Lavina was 32nd female in 22.59.

Only takes a couple of mins, Tullamore Half Marathon , in the top 5 let's get it to number one.

RORY FARRELL wins Round the Houses 2017! Congrats to Rory Farrell who was deemed the winner of the annual Round the Houses race today. This is a closed handicapped race where all the runners set off together and the given handicap is applied on the race results. Fastest man today was Dave Murray who was a clear winner of the 4700m race. Fastest woman was Nita McLoughlinn. Results: 1st Rory Farrell, 2nd Johnny Feery, 3rd Pauline Curley, 4th Darragh Rigney, 5th Darren Butler. Well done to everyone who ran. Photographs will be posted tomorrow. Overall results: DAVE MURRAY 15:37 CONOR BUTLER 16:06 LEONARD MOONEY 16:25 CHRISTY DONEGAN 16:36 DARREN BUTLER 16:50 PAULINE CURLEY 16:56 DARRAGH RIGNEY 16:56 EANNA GOWRAN 17:04 MICK CONNEELY 17:20 RORY FARRELL 17:29 JOHNNY FEERY 17:34 ADRIAN CURLEY 17:43 CONOR MOONEY 17:54 GLEN FINLAY 18:11 FRA MOLLEN 18:29 LESLIE BUCKLEY 18:40 NITA McLOUGHLINN 19:03 LORCAN SCALLY 19:22 RICHIE GALVIN 19:31 LEONARD OWENS 19:34 KEVIN CORRIGAN 19:43 SEAN REYNOLDS 19:50 EUGENE MANN 19:58 JOHN O'CONNELL 20:04 DEIRDRE FEERY 20:33 GARY O'DWYER 20:49 MICHELLE MULLANEY 20:50 ADRIAN LARKIN 21:00 MAGS GRENNAN 21:06 DARRAGH CARROLL 21:44 PADDY ROWLAND 22:03 SIMON BYRNE 22:26 RODGE LARKIKN 22:36 MARTIN CONLON 24:11 SHARON HAYDEN 24:50 SHARON DALY 25:05 CAROLINE O'BRIEN 25:08 LORRETO MORAN 25:08 DAMIEN MINNOCK 25:37 AISLING TROY 25:39 SANDRA BUSTEED 27:12 BERNARD DOHENY 28:43 MELISSA HOGAN 33:00

For the day that's in it,a small look back at years gone by. It you know people in Photos feel free to tag.

Leinster Star Awards 2017 This year the club is proud to announce that we are receiving 3 awards in the Leinster Star Awards which will be held in the Bridge House on Sat 6th of January. Two of our juveniles will recieve well earned awards and the club has been selected to receive the O’Hannelly Memorial Cup for it's achievements in Adult Road and Cross Country competition. Well done all. Danielle Donegan Danielle is a very talented young runner. She has competed for Tullamore Harriers from an early age. Over the last eight years she has been consistently one of the clubs best athletes. Her family have a huge interest in the sport and Danielle gets great help from her parents John and Marie who are keen runners. In addition her two sisters and three brothers are also committed to the sport and train with and enthusiastically support Danielle year round. In 2017, Danielle’s successes were almost year round. She competed well in the Leinster Indoors, getting into the medals in the U17 800m, when she finished 3rd and and in the Junior 3000m when she came 2nd. In the U17 1500m, Danielle missed out on a medal by one spot as she came home in 4th place. In the Leinster Outdoor U17, Danielle became Leinster champion for 3000m with a great solo effort at the front in Tullamore, These track successes were built on during the cross country season as Danielle came 2nd in both the U17 and U18 Leinster Cross Country Champiosnhips. Danielle is coached by Tullamore Harriers Endurance Squad team of coaches who include, Damian Lawlor, Anthony Murphy, Annamarie Cunningham, Declan Lambe, Triona Cotter and Richie Faulkner. Aaron Mangan Aaron is a fast improving middle distance athlete, who shows a great commitment to his sport. He regularly makes the hour long round trip to Tullamore for training sessions and gives his all each session. This commitment is backed up by his parents Pat and Eleesa who have in the past year showed a similar commitment making the regular journeys to Tullamore and Croghan for training as well as travelling far and wide for competitions. Aaron has won many provincial and national medals in the past three years in both club and schools competitions. This year at Leinster level, he has tried to experiment and has started to compete in events other than his favourite 800m. He won three medals in Leinster competitions. He came 2nd in the Leinster Indoor 400m and also gained a medal in the 800m in which he finished 3rd. In the Outdoor Leinsters Aaron had a fine run to finish 2nd in the 1500m. Aaron is coached by Tullamore Harriers Endurance Squad team of coaches who include, Damian Lawlor, Anthony Murphy, Annamarie Cunningham, Declan Lambe, Triona Cotter and Richie Faulkner.

Great performances from the Track & Field Juveniles at the Northwest Indoor Games in AIT Athlone. 10 juveniles competed in this highly competitive open competition. A great start to the day with Aaron Keane taking gold in the U18, 200m. In the long jump , Luke Burke taking silver in the U14 boys and Katelyn Farrelly taking silver in the U16 girls. Jack Saunders narrowly missed out on a medal by barely grazing the bar at his 3 attempts at 145cm in the U14 boys high jump but finished with a super PB of 140cm. The 60m sprint saw all our athletes perform superbly notably katelyn Farrelly taking bronze and still awaiting confirmation of the result, but Luke Burke and Evan farrelly in the u14 boys expected in the first 3. The day finished with 2 exciting relay teams in the u16s, 4x200 boys and girls, with the girls taken a very convincing gold and the boys in a very contested race we're pipped on the end line to take 4th place. Shauna Slattery's day ended early due to a minor injury but cheered our guys on all day to the end . Grainne Lawlor, from Rosenalis Kilcavan AC,, an associate member and trains with the track and field group took a superb bronze in the u16 girls 200m. Well done Aaron, Katie, Luke, Kate, Diarmuid, Evan, Shauna, Katelyn, Jack and Grainne.

REMINDER; Tomorrow at 12md we have the annual Midnight Run/Round the Houses Club Race. Register from 11am. Entry 5 euro. This is the last race of a fantastic year for Tullamore Harriers so lets support the race and give 2017 a good send off!

Congratulations to Ger Hensey, who has been appointed as Sprint Coach with the Athletics Ireland Connaught Track and Field squad. Well done Ger.