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After a little bit of research on the web, I've come up with a grand total of 43, including (West) Waterford's David McCarthy, who ran an awe-inspiring 3.57.75 at a recent indoor meet in the US!

A flotrack video of David's race is located here and is well worth a viewing, or three:

http://www.flotrack.org/videos/coverage/view_video/234643/148270-m-

My research extended as far as rolling up the following two web links:

http://www.athleticsireland.ie/news/irelandsmilers.htm

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055493489

The list referred to in the boards.ie thread is not indexed by Google, or at least I cannot find it.

I have compressed the lists found in the two articles above with David McCarthy's own recent time into the following 43 man list:



Time Name Date Note

3:49.77 Ray Flynn 07/07/1982

3:49.78 Eamonn Coghlan 27/02/1983 Indoor

3:50.62 Mark Carroll 28/07/2000

3:50.94 Marcus O'Sullivan 13/02/1988 Indoor

3:51.06 Frank O'Mara 10/09/1986

3:53.93 Niall Bruton 05/07/1996

3:54.48 Dave Taylor 13/07/2003

3:54.62 James Nolan 07/09/2003

3:54.63 Gerry O'Reilly 14/06/1986

3:54.68 Tommy Moloney 08/07/1986

3:54.70 John Hartnett 20/06/1973

3:55.00 Jim McGuinness 11/07/1977

3:55.04 Alistair Cragg 21/01/2006 Indoor

3:55.40 Niall O'Shaughnessy 28/01/1977 Indoor

3:55.82 Paul Donovan 03/07/1984

3:55.91 Gary Lough 01/01/1995 Exact date?

3:56.36 Steve Martin 01/01/1986 Exact date?

3:56.36 Enda Fitzpatrick 09/07/1985

3:56.78 Frank Conway 22/01/1989 Indoor

3:57.50 Ronnie Delany 06/08/1958

3:57.61 Gareth Turnbull 27/04/2002

3:57.75 David McCarthy 14/02/2009 Indoor

3:57.81 Paul Lawther 01/01/1983 Exact date?

3:58.09 Ken Nason 24/06/1995

3:58.10 Frank Murphy 07/06/1969

3:58.19 David Campbell 16/02/2008

3:58.42 Sean O'Neill 07/07/1987

3:58.54 Eugene Curran 08/07/1987

3:58.71 Des English 25/06/1994

3:58.96 Andrew Walker 29/10/2000

3:58.99 Mark Christie 06/08/2005

3:59.12 Gerry Kiernan 19/06/1976

3:59.23 Shane Healy 20/06/1966

3:59.24 Derek Graham 20/08/1966

3:59.37 Peter McColgan 18/07/1986

3:59.40 Kieran Stack 06/02/1988 Indoor

3:59.48 James McIlroy 06/08/2005

3:59.52 Gary Murray 06/08/2005

3:59.67 Mark Kirk 13/07/1986

3:59.80 Basil Clifford 03/08/1964

3:59.84 Seamus McCann 05/07/1988

3:59.90 Davey Wilson 30/05/1991

3:59.91 Brian Treacy 07/08/1999

Please, please, please let me know if any of my information is wrong or out of date...

jameslundon

15 years 4 months ago

Looks like Paul is the only Galway athlete alright. Corrections and otherwise are very much welcomed.

Northern Irish athletes are included in the list above - see the two articles whose own lists are conflated hereabouts!

Is that really the same Gerry..? He doesn't have an "O" in his name as far as i know. I didn't really follow atheltics as closely back then, but Gerry O'Reilly competed in Seoul and was 6'2" - I know Gerry Reilly was a great runner but didn't know he was that great.

cmn

15 years 4 months ago

I have a suspicion that Neville Davey from Mayo may have dipped under the 4 minute barrier some time around 2000. I wonder can anyone confirm this ?