Conditions put pay to Kevin Mulcaire’s record bid

Cold and damp conditions ultimately put pay to Kevin Mulcaire’s record-breaking ambitions but nothing could stop Ciara Neville lighting up the track at the GloHealth All Ireland Schools Track and Field Championships in Tullamore on Saturday.

New Irish junior 5,000m record holder Mulcaire (St Flannan’s, Ennis) couldn’t add the schools record to his burgeoning CV as he eased to victory in the senior boys 5,000m in a time of 14:51.98.

It seemed like the perfect script with the 5,000m the last individual race on the programme which had started at 9am but as the day wore on it was apparent it was going to be a tough ask to enter the history books.