THE Irish teams for the next month’s Spar European Cross-Country Championships in Dublin are due to be announced today. But team manager, Anne Keenan-Buckley confirmed yesterday the senior men’s team will not be finalised until after Thursday.

MARK HANRAHAN (Leevale) will be targeting a place on the Irish team for the SPAR European cross-country championships when he lines up in defence of his Cork senior crown at Clonakilty Showgrounds on Sunday.

THE final of the intermediate boys’ hurdles will provide the closest and possibly the most exciting finish of the day at the KitKat Munster Schools track and field championships at the UL track in Limerick tomorrow when Patrick Maher (Davis College, Mallow) and Edmund O’Halloran (St Francis College, Rochestown) renew rivalry.

CRAIG Murphy (Douglas Community School) ended two years of frustration when winning the senior boys’ title at the KitKat Irish Schools Cross-Country Championships at Dartfield Equestrian Centre, Loughrea on Saturday.

NIALL TUOHY (Yeats College, Waterford) proved that December’s inter-county championship junior win wasn’t a flash in the pan when he outsprinted Craig Murphy (Douglas Community School) in a dramatic finish to the senior boy’s race at the KitKat Munster Schools Cross-Country Championships at Tramore Racecourse yesterday.

DERVAL O’ROURKE is back on track for the world indoor championships in Valencia after an injury lay-off.

CRAIG MURPHY (Togher) finished third in the junior race in Hannut yesterday when he led with 400m to go, only to be out-sprinted by Jeroen D’Houdt from Belgium, who won by just seven seconds.

NIALL TUOHY (Newtown School) provided the upset of the meet when he fought back in the finishing straight to edge out his training partner, David McCarthy (St Augustine’s, Dungarvan) in the senior boys’ 800m at the KitKat Munster Schools track and field championships at UL.