A small contingent from the club made the short journey down to Templemore AC’s fine facility for the Munster Senior Outdoors on the Bank Holiday Monday. In glorious sunshine, Laura Cunningham and Sarah Finnegan hit season’s bests in the triple jump with Laura leaping over the 10m mark on 3 of her jumps with a best of 10.16m on her 4th effort and Sarah leaping a best of 8.98 also on her 4th attempt. Laura’s leap was good enough to…
(thanks to Carol Brady for the brilliant report and photos!) The County Galway Community Games were held on Sunday the 4th of June 2023 in a very hot but very colourful Ballinderreen. The flags were up and the winners podium set up with a beautifully lined GAA pitch transformed for the day into a running track. This was a first for many of our young competitors running on grass and made the likes of hurdles a little more tricky. With…
The finest School athletes in Ireland travelled to Tullamore on Saturday for the Irish School Track and Fields finals and it didn’t disappoint. Presentation College Athenry’s Evan Hallinan won the high-Jump with an outstanding 1.95m leap, just 1 cm off his personal best. Evan went on to win Silver in the long Jump with a 6.67m leap which led the competition until the last jump and was just pipped. Rachel Warde of Clarin College Athenry got the day off to…
A big thanks to Mary Kilroy and her team for this article, and for the photos and for resurrecting the local Community Games sports day! The Scene was set , Our new tartan track was ready, the officials on hand, the sun shone and the athletes shone even brighter. A hundred excited athletes ranging in age from over 6 to under 16 took part in 22 different track and field events on Friday evening May the 26th. Great performances were…
Craughwell AC’s Summer Camp will be on July 24th-28th 2023. We always aim to make this a brilliant experience for the kids, giving them lots of healthy exercise and and a good platform to make friends. The camp is for children in primary school from the age of 5 upwards and children will be split into groups by age with a focus on running, jumping and throwing games and athletics events for a high0-action week of fun. This year the…
Yesterday saw the achievement of a huge milestone for the club with the completion of the tartan layer on our 400m track, with only the track lining remaining to be done now. When we bought the land back in 2014, it was always the dream that one day we’d have our own 400m track on it. In a 25-year plan set out at the time, we envisaged adding incrementally to the facility and having a 400m track by 2030 as…
Craughwell AC Athletes were superb again on Friday for their Schools in Athlone as the club had outstanding results. This will be a brief report due to time available but the full results are listed below. Clarin College’s Rachel Warde won a magnificent Double-Gold in the Minor Girls. Rachel took the 75mh in a fine 11.58 and the 100m in 12.71. Aeveen Kelly has just removed the cast from her recently broken hand to win Silver in the 200m in…
The sun shone on Dangan as the best Athletes in the county took on the challenge of the Galway outdoors. The clubs results are below: U13 Boys 4x100m Relay: 1. Craughwell A.C. 4×100 Relay Male Under 13 A (O’Reilly, Jamie, Colleran, Sean, King, Lincoln, Mc Nena, Ruairi, Mc Nena, Ciaran, ) – (56.3) GoldU13 Boys 600m: 10. Ciaran Mc Nena (02:03.1)U13 Boys 60mH: 1. Sean Colleran (10.4) GoldU13 Boys 60mH: 2. Lincoln King (10.6) SilverU13 Boys 60mH: 7. Ruairi Mc…
This will be a super quick report as just back and fairly bushed but with the full weekend there is a lot of reporting to be done! The Irish Milers Club kicked off in force with the Belfast meet and the event was another classic show of the best of Irish and UK Talent. From Craughwell there were FIVE of our best middle distance athletes – in the 1500m we had Jack Miskella, Sean Cotter, Patrick Noonan and Oisin Davis….
A small group from the club took part in day 2 of the Dublin Graded Meets on Wednesday in Tallaght in windy and wet conditions. Jamie Fallon had a fine run in the men’s 1500m race, staying in the pack for the early laps before moving into the lead at the bell and outkicked from around 150m out to take a fine 2nd place in an impressive 4:00.11 in the windy conditions. The dark Dublin clouds unfortunately had gotten tired…
