The Dublin Marathon is unsurprisingly one of the biggest events for our club every year: last year saw a record 27 participants and this year we broke that with 28 runners whilst Ross Thompson was also in action in Venica (with former member and Wicklow Wolfer Chris Willoughby).
This is a recent development as we didn’t have any participation in the Dublin Marathon until 2017, only two in 2019 and when things resumed in 2022 we had 8 before we began to see the rise with 17 in 2023. All in all, 91 Glendalough AC have runners have completed the Dublin Marathon in the 6 editions since 2017.
Fantastic to see so many out and running so well – congratulations to all the finishers and enjoy the well-deserved rest this week.
DUBLIN MARATHON
Several new club records were set on the streets of Dublin with Niall MacCague taking 1:28 off Paul O’Riordan’s overall and M35 record of 2:54:19 (set in Amsterdam in March). Torben Dahl retains his hold on the ‘all-time’ best time by a club athlete (of 2:50) run during his time with Crusaders AC.
Angus Tyner lowered his own m55 record by nearly 8 minutes with a time of 3:06 which also made him the highest placed category runner in Dublin (24th in the m55 category).
Aaron Cullen’s fine 2:55:34 took 17 minutes off Aran Lynham’s Male Senior record from 2023.
Louis Byrne took 63 seconds off Blaise Kinsella (now of Parnell AC) 2023 record with a fine PB of 2:58:58*. Both Aoife Joyce and Donna Quinn broke the previous best time for the F45 but it will be Donna’s impressive 3:18:10 that is now the new F45 mark.
We don’t yet have a full overview of Personal Bests – except we know there were a lot more than called out below – or of any of our runners being involved with team medals or individual regional or county medals. We will try to follow up with that at a later stage.
* Five runners have now banked sub-3 times while being members of our club: Torben Dahl (2017) and now in 2025 Paul O’Riordan, Niall MacCague, Aaron Cullen and Louis Byrne (in that order).
| RESULT |
| 1. Daniel Meslin () 2:08:51 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 504. Niall MacCague 2:52:51 (PB, Club Record – overall and M35) |
| 641. Aaron Cullen 2:55:34 (PB, MS Club Record) – WW RC |
| 1044. Louis Byrne 2:58:58 (PB, M40 Club Record) |
| 1135. Eoin Morton 3:00:06 (PB) – WW RC |
| 1426. Angus Tyner 3:06:06 (PB, M55 Club Record) |
| 2060. Neil Fusco 3:13:41 – WW RC |
| 2091. Jimmy Cullen 3:14:04 (PB) |
| 2137. Gavin Kennedy 3:14:30 (PB) – WW RC |
| 2307. Ian Bromley 3:16:22 – WW RC |
| 2373. Sebastian Slotwinski 3:16:59 |
| 2507. Donna Quinn 3:18:10 (F45 Club Record) |
| 3807. Anne Bromley 3:27:59 (PB) |
| 4103. Nora Butler 3:29:27 (PB) |
| 4399. Ben Lewis 3:31:49 |
| 4620. Kevin Ferguson 3:33:53 |
| 7400. Claire Thompson 3:50:46 |
| 7871. Eoin Phelan 3:53:24 |
| 8214. Emmet Bergin 3:55:04 |
| 9078. Alan McCarthy 3:58:23 |
| 9580. Aoife Joyce 4:01:15 |
| 11376. James McCarthy 4:14:19 |
| 11668. Philip O’Brien 4:16:23 |
| 12671. Fiona Smyth 4:23:59 |
| 13162. Steve Gregan 4:27:32 |
| 16469. Edson Ferreira 5:08:22 |
| 16719. Matthew O’Brien 5:13:53 |
| 18008. James Heggie 6:04:01 |
VENICE MARATHON
We couldn’t find Ross results yet but will update once we get them. In the meantime a shot from sunny Venice!
Glendalough AC 