Tailteann Inter-Provincial T&F 2019 (22nd June)

Matthew Glennon excels at Schools Inter-Provincial T&F

In addition to the honour of representing their schools and Province at the Tailteann Inter-Provincial T&F in a warm and sunny Santry on Saturday 22nd June, at stake for four Club athletes was selection for the Irish Schools team that will compete against England, Scotland and Wales in Swansea in July.

Matthew Glennon (St. Finian’s) simply dominated the boys 3,000m race walk from the gun and under the scrutiny of the ever vigilant judges gave a polished performance in this very technical event to win comfortably by quite a distance. Charles Okafor (St. Finian’s) blasted to a fine second place in the 100m and later in the afternoon also finished second in the 200m in a close race. Charles finished the day with a third silver medal when he anchored the Leinster 4x100m relay team to second place. Normally, the first two in each event are selected on the Irish team but we’ll await the formal decision of the selectors before we announce if Matthew and Charles have been selected, which for Charles would be his debut International.

Also competing were Bea Drummond (Athlone CC) in the girls 3,000m run and Lorcan Mullen (Cistercian Roscrea) in the boys 3,000m run. They were a bit off their best and finished out of the medal places but this was a huge learning experience against top quality competition.