Leinster u/20, Senior & Masters Indoors 2025 (1st Mar)

The Leinster Indoor season got underway on Saturday 1st March when the Leinster u/20, Senior & Masters Indoors were held at the NIA Dublin. Mullingar had a small but enthusiastic squad in action.

Colm Walsh took it out hard in the Masters 3,000m race walk and after fifteen tough laps where he never let up the pressure he was rewarded with gold in his master category, but better, his winning time of 14:54.74 was a new PB and a new Championship Record by nearly 35 seconds, so he was naturally absolutely delighted after the race.

Aidan O’Donoghue had an incredibly busy day of competition in six events. Beginning with the Masters 60m Hurdles which he won, he followed this up with bronze in the Masters 200m later in the day, and in between won gold in the Masters Pole Vault, silver in the Masters High Jump and silver in the Masters Shot Putt. This was in addition to teaming up with Claire Lennon Gavin, Gerard Gavin and Linda Cunningham in the Masters Mixed 4x200m Relay where the team battled hard but finished out of the medal places, though fifth place was a very creditable result.

Also competing over the individual 200m was Claire Lennon Gavin who finished an excellent fourth place in her Masters 200m, and Mohammad Al Bashir who lined up in one of five heats in the Senior 200m, where the competition was fierce, but he gave a very good account to finish fourth in his heat and even though he didn’t qualify for the final he was very satisfied with his performance.

Gerard Gavin competed in the Masters 3,000m and despite his efforts in the earlier mixed relay, pushed hard throughout the race and was very unlucky to finish just out of the medal places in fourth, missing bronze by a very narrow margin. Linda Cunningham too had to shake of the efforts of the mixed relay and was very pleased to finish second in the Masters 400m and earn a Leinster silver medal.

Meanwhile, over in the field events, another Mullingar athlete that had a very busy schedule was Paddy Boyhan who was very happy to win triple Leinster gold thanks to his winning performances in the Masters High Jump, Masters Long Jump and Masters Triple Jump. Finally, rounding off a good day for Mullingar was Tom Walsh who simply dominated in the Masters Weight for Distance, winning gold in his master category by a very big margin [GD].