{"id":1160,"date":"2014-10-07T11:49:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T11:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.scoilnet.ie\/blog\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2014-10-07T11:49:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T11:49:57","slug":"the-annual-trip-to-thurles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/2014\/10\/07\/the-annual-trip-to-thurles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annual Trip to Thurles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 1<sup>st<\/sup> October, 18 boys from 3<sup>rd<\/sup>,4<sup>th<\/sup>,5<sup>th<\/sup> and 6<sup>th<\/sup> class in St. Colmcille\u2019s travelled by bus to Thurles Crokes Athletic Track for the annual schools Cross Country Championships. The weather was perfect for the 2,900 boys and girls who were competing in 30 races.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived at 11.20am accompanied by Mr. Kelly and Ms. Glennon. We found our usual spot in the middle of the field and left our bags there. We were allowed to walk around for 20 minutes until we were called upon to cheer on the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> and 4<sup>th<\/sup> class race.<\/p>\n<p>That race got us off to a good start with Sean Collier coming in 4<sup>th<\/sup> place, which was a big improvement from his position of 63<sup>rd<\/sup> last year. Tom Duggan followed in 6<sup>th<\/sup> place, Michael Cahill came in 9<sup>th<\/sup>, Mickey Delaney closely behind in 14<sup>th<\/sup> place. These positions achieved a team gold medal beating Templederry by a single point. The other boys, Josh Quinlan, Cormac Foy, Ned Delaney and Eddie Corcoran ran a great race also but were unlucky not to get a team medal, coming in 6<sup>th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n<p>The 5<sup>th<\/sup> and 6<sup>th<\/sup> race was the final race to be run out of 30 races, with 90 boys in our race. We lined up and John Francis O\u2019Donoghue led the pack for 200 meters. He was followed closely by Darragh Hogan from Burgess and Conor Cadell. As the race developed it was between Darragh and Conor, they ran together but Conor took him on the downhill stretch and then led until the end. It was a fine team performance with Conor taking 1<sup>st<\/sup> place, James Corcoran taking 4<sup>th<\/sup>, John Campion 5<sup>th<\/sup> position and Jack Nevin coming 7<sup>th<\/sup> place. This ensured a team gold medal. The following boys, Eoin Quinn 11<sup>th<\/sup>, Jim-Bob Kennedy 13<sup>th<\/sup>, Luke Ormond 21<sup>st<\/sup>, John Francis 49<sup>th<\/sup> and Kane Conneely shortly afterwards also ensured a bronze team medal beating Templederry by 1 point again.<\/p>\n<p>Overall it was a very successful day, taking back 14 medals to the school. A huge thank you to Mr. Kelly and Ms. Glennon who encouraged and supported us throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.scoilnet.ie\/blog\/files\/2014\/10\/20141001_125717.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1162\" src=\"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.scoilnet.ie\/blog\/files\/2014\/10\/20141001_125717-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"20141001_125717\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.scoilnet.ie\/blog\/files\/2014\/10\/20141001_133144.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1161\" src=\"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.scoilnet.ie\/blog\/files\/2014\/10\/20141001_133144-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"20141001_133144\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 1st October, 18 boys from 3rd,4th,5th and 6th class in St. Colmcille\u2019s travelled by bus to Thurles Crokes Athletic Track for the annual schools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stcolmcillens.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}