from finnvalleyac.com Dominic Bonner the Gweedore man who has on many occassions in the last decade made the difference for Valley winning teams ,most notably recently in the Donegal senior and previously on a very successful Masters team that dominated domestically in Ireland ,was in great form once again on the Republic of Ireland team that defeated England,Wales,Scotland and N Ireland in the o-45 category at Santry in the annual Masters cross country international . A notable feat .Also in action in over 40 age range Cieran Carlin 3rd scorer finishing 2nd behind England and finally James Mc Mahon 9th over 50 3rd team scorer again silver medals . Congrats to Cieran Doherty over 35 team leader and 3rd overall on a great individual performance and indeed and historic team victory while Buncrana schoolteacher Pauric Mc KInney was a vital member of successful o -45 squad
With the bye election in full swing its inevitable that leading politicians from all the interested parties will call so it was indeed an honour to host the Taoiseach Brian Cowan friday night .
Upcoming events are the national inter counties and even age nationals in Derry Sunday week the 28th with the underage annual presentation night on later that evening at 7-30 in the Main Hall . All children and their parents are invited to this indeed some 300 /400 turned out last year for what was a really pleasant evening in August having won the national title
Congrats to Tori Pena from the club who was nominated for field athlete of the year at the annual Athletics Ireland awards last Sat night . Tori of course represented Ireland in the European champs having earlier in the season won the national in a new record 4-15m . She is now back training with a view to making the European indoors in Paris in March
Results attached :