Douglas Community School athletes competed in the latest leg of their Mile Challenge series recently at Cork IT track. The first year race was won by Jack O’ Mahony with a superb time of 5.34 and he was followed home closely by Liam Harris 5.38, Kevin Horan 5.42 and Jamie O’ Connell 5.43. Other great runs came from Luke Varian, Rory Barry, Stephen Cotter and Declan O’ Herlihy. In the older race Cullen Lynch had a fine win in 4.52 with other superb runs coming from Ian Tobin, Mark Seacy, Andrew O’ Keeffe, Billy Murphy and Jamie Sullivan. Next up for the athletes is the Munster Schools Cross-Country Championships in Cork where the school aims to retain the best overall school cup for the 6th consecutive year.

Steven Macklin