Tom Comyns ran 6.91 to place 7th in the 60m final. Comyns from Limerick also ran 21.75 for 3rd in the 200 metre event. Gary Ryan (Nenagh Olympic) won the 200m in 21.51. Mark Mandy (Birchfield Harriers) won the high jump with a leap of 2.15 metres.

Zoe Brown (Ballymena & Antrim) improved on the recognised indoor pole vault record placing second in 3.60m. Bridget Pearson, an American with Irish citizenship has vaulted 3.82m on 19 February 2000 in Los Angeles.

Colm McLean (St Malachy's) placed 8th (13.35) in the Reebok Cross Challenge 4-kilometre race held in Cardiff on 13 January. Conor McGee (NUI Maynooth) ran 32.03 to place 15th in the Senior Men's 9k race.

Dubliner Westley Alkin (University of Arkansas) placed 3rd (4.15.66) in the mile at the Radio Shack Open Invitational held at Missouri Southern on 11-12 January. Thomas Quaid (Missouri Southern) from North Cork placed ninth in the 800m in 1.59.28.

Liam McDermid from the land of Celtic (Glasgow, Scotland) recently declared for Ireland won the East of Scotland Indoor Championship senior 400m title in a personal best 49.39 at Glasgow's Kelvin Hall.

Eugene O'Neill (Crusaders) won the Men's Open 4k race with Sheila Doyle of Dundrum South Dublin taking the women's race. Martin Fagan from Mullingar was an impressive winner of the U-19 junior men's race while Andrew Ledwith from Father Murphy's won the U-17 race. On the women's side, Fiona Mahon of South O'Hanlon won the U-19 race with Linda Byrne (Dundrum South Dublin) winning the U-17 title.

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Enda Grandfield (Western Kentucky University) won the 3,000-meter run in a time of 8.32.52 at the Middle Tennessee State Christmas Invitational held on 8th December. Western Kentucky University Track Coach Michelle Murphy Scott from Carraig na bhFear ran and won the women's 3,000-meter race with a time of 9:54.41 leading her WKU to a 1-2-3 finish. Finishing that race in second, and first among collegiate runners, was Jill Shannon (Lagan Valley AC) in a time of 10:00.64 with Olga Cronin (East Cork) finishing third in 10:03.45. The Hilltoppers were back in action at the Kentucky Invitational held 11-12 January in Lexington, Kentucky where Shannon (Jordantown, North Ireland) finished fourth in the women's mile run in a time of 5:08.31 and Coach Murphy Scott winning the 3k in 10:02.07.

At Rhode Island Deirdre Byrne (Avoca, Co. Wicklow) won the 800 metres in 2:15.33 with Galway's Kathryn Casserly placing third in 2.17.82. Róisín McGettigan from Wicklow won the 1000m in 2:53.89. Limerick's Emer O'Shea placed second in the 500 metre event in 1.19.10.

At Yale the quartet of Byrne, Róisín Quinn (Waterford), O'Shea and McGettigan won the Distance medley Relay in 11:55.85. Kathryn Casserly placed second in the mile in 5:05.90. Patrick Guidera (Clonmel, Co. Tipperary) finished sixth in the mile run at Yale with a time of 4:24.10.