Dewhirst leads the charge as Donegal athletes impress at Tailteann Games

Fintan Dewhirst continued his stunning form of late when winning three gold medals at the Tailteann Games on Friday night.

The Tir Chonaill AC man left Tullamore with golds in the 400m hurdles, 200m and 4x400m relay.

Next month, Dewhirst and Finn O’Neill will compete at the European Under-18s in Jerusalem and they were on song here.

Dewhirst won the 400m hurdles in 54.87 seconds, well ahead of Galway’s Mathieu Madden, who took silver in 57.93 seconds.

Dewhirst also took 200m gold in 22.24 seconds, staving off Donal Martin, the St Michael’s, Dublin man just .04 seconds behind.

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The St Columba’s, Glenties man teamed up with Ulster colleagues Jamie Moffat, Toby Thompson and Michael Boyera to get bronze in the 4x100m relay.

Dewhirst was joined by Finn O’Neill and Daniel McHugh to get gold in the 4x400m relay.

O’Neill won gold in the 100m hurdles. The Lifford-Strabane AC ace, who attends Limavady Grammar School, sped home in 13.39 seconds.

Finn Valley AC man McHugh, who attends St Columba’s in Stranorlar, was fourth in the 400m, clocking 53.25 seconds.

St Columba’s, Stranorlar woman Caoimhe Gallen won gold in the hammer. The rising Lifford-Strabane AC star threw out to 51.94m.

Finn Valley AC pair Blaine Lynch and Dean Leeper were second and third in the javelin.

Omagh student Lynch, who has just returned from injury, took silver with a 48.77m throw with a 48.26m effort earning St Columba’s, Stranorlar’s Leeper the bronze.

Ellie McCurdy, the Lifford-Strabane AC athlete who is a scholar of Holy Cross in Strabane, won the girls javelin when reaching out to 40.55m.

Her club and schoolmate Ashleigh McArdle was third in the shot put (12.68m) with Ava Anderson of Tir Chonaill AC and Abbey VS, just outside the medals in fourth (11.88m).

Lifford-Strabane AC's Ella Costello of Crana College took silver with the Ulster squad in the 4x300m relay. Costello, who was sixth in the 80m hurdles, ran the first leg of the relay.

Loreto and Letterkenny AC woman Fern Duffy was part of the Ulster 4x100m relay team that won bronze. Duffy was also sixth in the 200m.

Holly Cross, Strabane’s Ashleigh McArdle, who is with Lifford-Strabane AC, was fourth in the 300m hurdles with Finn Valley AC woman Amy Timoney, a student at Rosses CS, fifth.

Loreto, Milford and Cranford AC’s Amy Cullen sixth in the long jump with Royal & Prior Raphoe student Elsa Moore, who runs out of Lifford-Strabane AC, seventh in the 800m.

Tir Chonaill AC’s Luke Ward was sixth in the hammer and ninth in the discus.