Clonliffe men take team win in Kilcock

Clonliffe’s senior men turned up in force for the St Coca’s 5k in Kilcock this evening on another sweltering day. This race has become a firm favourite and this year confirmed its status as one of the best 5k road races.

In a repetition of the Raheny 5 mile earlier in the year, Colm Rooney was in a foot race to the finish line with UCD’s Jonas Stafford. Jonas secured the win in 14:08, with Colm 2nd in 14:09. 

Conor Fitzpatrick was next home in an impressive pb of 15:18, Lee Duddy was next in 15:21 with Cian Murray in 15:36. These 4 captured the men’s team title.

The team was backed up by Malcom Kiplagat 15:41, Eoin Maguire 15:44, Anto Doran 15:54, Andrew Gaffney in a pb of 16:46, Stephen Harkness 17:04, Philip Bacon 19:39. Andrew D’Arcy 20:08, John Torsney 20:06, Carl Fleming 21:40 and Maurice mc Crohan 23:27.