Irish Results from the 2017 Great North Run

The Great North Run in Newcastle, England is the world's largest half-marathon and this year it was held on Saturday the 9th of September 2017 with a record 43,127 finishers.

The finishers listed under Ireland are shown below. Those from Cork & Munster are in bold.

STEPHEN SCULLION    10    Clonliffe Harriers A.C.    14    01:05:52    Gun Time
EOGHAN JOSEPH TOTTEN    30    Oxford University AC    19    01:07:21    Gun Time
David Murray    649    Tullamore Harriers Athletic Club    73    01:15:17    Chip Time
Jimmy Boland    756    Clonmel A.C.    86    01:16:56    Chip Time
Paul O Reilly    35199         163    01:19:46    Chip Time
Danny Murphy    3293    An Riocht A.C.    445    01:26:05    Chip Time
Paul Breen    2211         462    01:26:26    Chip Time
Brian Maher    820    Slaney Olympic A.C.    519    01:27:09    Chip Time
John Murray    3447    St. Coca's A.C.    643    01:28:19    Chip Time
Aidan McKenna    2541    Letterkenny A.C.    645    01:28:19    Chip Time
David Gleeson    2417         713    01:28:48    Chip Time
Ciaran O'Connor    1386         839    01:29:43    Chip Time
James O Connor    3826    Slaney Olympic A.C.    935    01:30:27    Chip Time
Derek Keeley    5340         1022    01:31:09    Chip Time
Rob Asher    1028    Blackrock A.C. (Dublin)    1091    01:31:44    Chip Time
Ciara Brady    3357         1113    01:31:51    Chip Time
Orla O Rourke    463    Ballymore Cobh A.C.    1153    01:32:12    Chip Time

Cyclist causes chaos at Newcastle 10k...

At a recent 10k road race in Newcastle in the North-East of England, runners got more than they bargained for when a random cyclist caused chaos. The cyclist who was dressed in fluorescent clothing entered the race course just before the starting gun sounded and the leading group of runners mistook him for a race official and mistakenly followed him to the right instead of carrying straight on! Hundreds of runners had run around 800m before they were finally stopped.

Race winner Ian Hudspith said afterwards: “I had not ran the race before so I just followed the leaders and lo and behold we were told by a marshall we were going the wrong way. When we eventually got back on track, I was in about 50th place and well down on the leaders who had gone the right way. It was shortly after that it was decided to halt the race and start all over again, which was the sensible thing to do and I as far as I could gather everyone accepted the decision. It is quite a difficult course with all the twists and turns in Exhibition Park and I would rather they just ran two circuits of the Moor. If they did I do not think there would be any problems with competitors going the wrong way.”

The unknown cyclist was not available for comment so it's not known how he or she felt about being followed by hundreds of runners on a Sunday morning.