Results of the St Catherines AC 5k in Ballynoe - Thurs 30th July 2026

"The Leevale winning team of Dermot Ryan, Hannah Steeds and Andy Goulding receiving the Dan McCarthy Perpetual Cup from Denis McCarthy, son of the late Dan"... John Walshe

The annual 5k race in Ballynoe near Conna and organised by St Catherine's AC was held on Thurs 30th July 2026 and there were 100 finishers.

Top 3 men & women...
 1 Dermot Ryan Leevale AC  16:54 MS 646
2 Nathan-Ryan O'Hehir St Finbarrs AC  16:58 MS 619
3 Fionn Hayes Grange Fermoy AC  17:02 MJ 672
4 Hannah Steeds Leevale AC  17:10 FS 629
13 Charlotte Norman St Catherine's AC 19:06 FJ 614
18 Olive Kelly St. Nicholas AC  19:26 F40 649

Full results HERE

Results of the St Catherines AC 5k in Ballynoe - Thurs 31st July 2025

The annual St Catherine's AC 5k road race in Ballynoe was held this year on Thurs 31st July 2025 on what was a dry sunny evening. There were 94 finishers in total which is well down on previous years.

Top 3 men & women...
 Place Athletes Name Club  Time Cat Bib
1 Tony Forristal East Cork AC     15:47 MS 784
2 Conor McCauley Leevale AC     15:47 M40 785
3 Ruairi Casey Togher AC     16:08 MS 781
7 Emma Fitzpatrick Leevale AC     18:00 FS 711
9 Fiona Santry East Cork AC     18:19 F35 775
11 Sarah Mulcahy St Catherine's AC     18:41 FS 726

Full results HERE

Results of the St Catherines AC 5k road race in Ballynoe - Thurs 1st Aug 2024

The annual St Catherine's AC 5k road race was held in Ballynoe in East Cork on Thursday 1st August 2024 on a dry evening. 

The numbers eased back a bit this year with 139 finishers which is down about a quarter on last year.

Top 3 men & women...
 1 Tony Forrestial East Cork AC     15:48 MS 615
2 Mark Walsh Leevale AC     15:49 MS 581
3 Darragh Mulcahy St Finbarrs AC     15:56 MS 629
9 Aoife Cooke Eagle AC     17:41 FS 611
16 Michelle Kenny Leevale AC     18:17 FS 592
21 Tamzin Muldowney East Cork AC     18:50 FS 602

Full results on the Premier Timing website.

Results of the St Catherine's AC 5k in Ballynoe - Thurs 3rd Aug 2023

St Catherines AC held their annual 5k race this year on Thurs 3rd Aug and the numbers were nearly back to their pre-pandemic levels with 187 crossing the finish line.

Top 3 men & women...
1 Tony Forristal East Cork AC     15:38 SM 158
2 Darragh Mulcahy St Finbarrs AC     15:44 SM 71
3 James McCarthy East Cork AC     15:56 SM 169
21 Martina Kiely St Finbarrs AC     17:57 SF 184
25 Michelle Kenny Leevale AC     18:13 SF 140
32 Kate Veale West Waterford AC     18:35 SF 176

Full results HERE

Results of the St Catherines AC 5k road race in Ballynoe - Fri 29th July 2022

This years 5k race organised by St Catherines AC was held in Ballynoe in NE Cork instead of the usual route around Conna. The numbers however were down with 128 runners, a drop of 32% on the pre-pandemic figure for 2019.

Top 3 men & women...

1 Bernard O'Hanlon Leevale AC     16:46 SM 458
2 Ciaran Mcnamee Youghal AC     17:20 SM 448
4 John Hennessy Midleton AC     18:04 SM 433
3 Fiona Santry East Cork AC     17:58 SF 488
14 Kelly Fitzgearld West Waterford AC     19:43 SF 487
20 Tamzin Muldowney Midleton AC     19:59 SF 770

Full results HERE

Talk by Kate Veale in Ballynoe - Fri 18th Oct 2019

This talk in the village of Ballnoe in NE Cork is coming up on Fri 18th Oct 2019. This is about 5kms to the south of Conna.

From St.Catherine's AC... OLYMPIC ATHLETE TO SPEAK IN BALLYNOE HALL
Ballynoe Community Council, in conjunction with St. Catherine’s Athletic Club, are privileged to host one of the country’s top athletes currently preparing to qualify and compete in the Tokyo Olympics 2020.

Kate Veale is an athlete with incredible achievements at the mere age of 25. Kate was a gold medal winner at U18 in the National cross country and went on to compete at European level in 2011. Her focus switched to racewalking, winning medals at the European Youths and Youth Olympics while still only in 4th year of secondary school in Dungarvan. Her meteoric rise came crashing down when she sustained a hip injury. The combination of youthful ambition, incredible talent meet with the harsh reality of serious injury and has lead Kate on a journey since of reaching the depths of despair physically and mentally. Thankfully she has found her strengths in dealing with such adversity and is back on course and is attempting to qualify for Tokyo 2020. Kate has spoken out on her own behalf on how horrific it can be to deal with the mental turmoil she endured. She published an article last March detailing her struggles, she certainly made an impact as she has since been in touch with athletes and non-athletes from all over the world who have identified with her honesty and vulnerability.

Kate Veale has so graciously accepted our invitation to come to Ballynoe on October 18th, and give a firsthand account of her career highs and her physical and mental lows and her new found insights into how to cope and deal with both. Hope you will come and join us in Ballynoe Hall on the evening of Friday the 18th October to hear Kate speak. This is part of Ballynoe Community Council’s Mental Health and Wellbeing initiative, in conjunction with St. Catherine’s Athletic Club.

Results & Photos of the Conna 5k - Fri 2nd Aug 2019

The annual Conna 5k road race organised by St.Catherine's AC was held on Friday the 2nd of August 2019.

1 Andrew Hobbs     Leevale AC         17:25     SM     335
2 Luke Hever     North Cork AC         17:36     JM     388
3 Brian Swaby     Waterford         17:45     M40     398
11 Niamh Moore     Leevale AC         19:16     SF     381
22 Evelyn Cashman     Youghal AC         20:06     F45     466
31 Courtney McGuire     Clonmel AC         20:31     JF     453

Full results

Results for the Juvenile race HERE

Photos...
1) St.Catherine's AC have a nice gallery HERE

Notice : Conna 5k road race - Fri 2nd Aug 2019

Organised by St.Catherine's Athletic Club, this 5 km road race is coming up in the village of Conna on Friday, the 2nd of August 2019.

The race HQ is the local community centre which is on the main road through the village. This is one of the few 5 km races in this part of NE Cork and should be of interest to a lot of runners. One thing to note is the number of prizes on offer with the top 5 men and women getting something as opposed to the more usual three.

The entry fee is €10.

There will also be chip timing.

Course Preview.....A full preview with maps, directions and photos can be seen HERE 

The club has its own website as well...http://stcatherinesac.org/

There will also be a 1-mile race for juveniles (10-16yrs) at 7:30pm.

From St.Catherine's AC...From St.Catherine's AC...Conna 5k is back for a 7th year on August 2nd.

Couch to 5k programme in Conna starts in Sept 2017

Another Couch to 5k programme for beginners. This one is being organised by St.Catherine's AC in Conna and will be on for 9 weeks. Each Wednesday session costs €1 so that makes a total of €9 if you attend all of them. Participants are expected to complete the other two sessions per week themselves.


It will start in Conna on Wed 6th Sept at 7pm.

More info on their website... http://stcatherinesac.org/?p=2196

From St.Catherine's AC....The club just run one of the 3 sessions each week in the 9 week program every Wednesday at 7:30. With warmup, the session itself, circuit based running form drills and cool down. So for 9 weeks it's 9 euro. We ask Runners do the complete the other 2 of the week sessions themselves.