McCarthy on track to enter long and short course races

IT APPEARS as if The AAI are likely to agree to Martin McCarthy’s who asked expressed the desire request to be entered in both the short and long course races at the world cross-country championships in Lausanne at the end of the month.

The newly crowned national champion became the first Corkman to win the senior inter-club title since Donie Walsh, also from Leevale, won the last of his four titles at Multyfarnham in 1978.

The Ballinhassig man, who went to train in South Africa in preparation for Sunday’s showpiece, is preparing for a debut marathon in Berlin in September and he showed signs of his readiness the strength that comes with such preparation in the way he handled the steep hill in Rathdrum on Sunday.