Ciara Mageean has come home in ninth place for Ireland in the junior women’s race at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Santry Park, Dublin, this morning.

John and Edward Grimes are expected to make their first Irish public appearance at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Santry Park, Dublin on December 13.

Alistair Cragg has been confirmed by Athletics Ireland as part of the Irish team for the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Santry Park next month.

ALISTAIR CRAGG will get his place on the Irish senior men’s team for the SPAR European cross-country championships if he proves his fitness in tomorrow’s 5k road race in San Jose.

IRELAND’S Martin Fagan will go head-to-head with Great Britain’s Mo Farah in the SPAR European cross-country championships at the Santry Demesne on December 13.

THE expression on his face as he powered his way up the home straight said it all as Drogheda athlete, Keith Kelly, buried 10 years of frustration at Santry Park yesterday by claiming the National senior cross-country title for the first time at the age of 31.

MARIA McCAMBRIDGE, who is currently well into her preparations for the Paris Marathon in just over a month’s time, will return to the scene of one of her greatest triumphs tomorrow when she contests the Woodies DIY national inter-club cross-country championships in Santry Park.