An East Cork AC history at the Munster Senior XC: 1986-2019

Overall since the club first competed in the Munster Senior XC championship we have won an impressive 23 out of 35 runnings of the event.

We have won the individual title 8 times by four men: Donnacha O'Mahoney (1991,1994,1996,2004), Liam O'Brien (1986,1987), James McCarthy (2009) and Michael Harty (2015).

Donnacha on his own has won half of these winning 4 times and hauling an unprecedented 14 team titles along the way stretching over 20 years from 1987 to his final team title in 2010.

Our longest streak was 9 wins from 2004 to 2012 until St Johns won in Limerick Racecourse in 2013.

Of the 23 titles won 22 men have contributed directly to the team by scoring in the top four. As mentioned Donnacha tops this list with 14. Right on his tail is Sean now with 12 and James on 11, both are solely responsible for the consistent run of team results in the mid 00's. Other team medal winners are in the below table.

Note: Traditionally the Munster Senior XC was held in January which fitted naturally in the XC calendar a number of weeks before the Interclub All Irelands. However with the merging of the intercounties and interclubs  to one race in December 2015 the Munsters changed to a November date in 2015. Which is why there were two races in that year.
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