Champion Tobin finishes on a high

“I couldn’t leave that one go,” admitted senior boy’s winner Sean Tobin of his last chance at glory in Saturday’s Aviva All-Ireland Schools’ and Universities’ Cross Country Championships at University of Ulster, Jordanstown.

Finishing second last year in an exciting duel with CBC Monkstown’s Kevin Dooney, the High School Clonmel student was in no mood to finish his schools cross country career without victory.

“I went with my gut feeling,” said Tobin, who briefly trailed the front-running Hugh Armstrong (Gortner Abbey Crossmolina) by ten metres with two laps remaining of the 6,500m course.