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Danielle Donegan on her way to bronze in the national cross country in Derry
TWO Offaly athletes have been selected for the European Cross Country Championships. The Tullamore Harriers' duo will travel to Lagoa in Portugal for the event on Sunday, December 14.
Danielle Donegan, a member of a very well known Tullamore running family, has made the senior womens' team. Her selection was a formality after an excellent third in the recent national Cross Country Championships in Derry.
In her early 20s, Donegan has made terrific progress in recent years and also competed in these championships last year, when she was also third in the national race.
The senior womens' team will be led by the winner of the national race, Fiona Everard, Bandon AC and it also includes: Niamh Allen (Leevale AC), who finished 11th in this race last year, Mary Mulhare (Portlaoise AC) and Emily Haggard-Kearney (North Belfast Harriers).
Another tale
nted female who progressed up through the much vaunted juvenile section at Tullamore Harriers, Ava O'Connor has been selected on the womens' U23 team, alongside: Anika Thompson (Leevale AC), national champion Roise Roberts (Candour Track Club), Amy Greene (Finn Valley AC) and Kirsty Maher (Moy Valley AC).
From Emo in Laois, O'Connor came into Tullamore Harriers at a young age and is one of a number of their athletes who earned athletics scholarships to the USA in the past decade. She is in Adams State University in Colorado and will return from a busy NACA season for these championships.
O'Connor also competed in the European U23 championships last year, alongside another Tullamore Harriers colleague and US scholarship recipient, Laura Mooney from Cappincur.
Another Offaly athlete, Ann Marie McGlynn has ran in this event in recent years but didn't make it this year. National champion in 2024, she competed in the Europeans but has had an injury disrupted season this year. She also won the national marathon title in 2024 and was second this year.
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From Mucklagh and a former Tullamore Harriers' member, she now competes with Strabane AC in Tyrone, where she lives. She took to the line in Derry, running a gutsy race as she finished 14 overall.
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