National Inter-County Silver for Gillen and Stoneman!
Conor Gillen and Finn Stoneman were part of the victorious Galway cross country team who claimed silver medals in the inter-county 4x500m relay event in Boyle at the weekend.
Great club performances in National B Cross-Country
The National B cross-country championships were held on a lovely sunny day in Lough Key Forest Park on Sunday. The sunshine took the winter chill out of the air but one could be forgiven for thinking that the lake had over-flown onto the cross country course such were the soggy underfoot conditions. It’s not the driest course at the best of times but buckets of overnight rainfall left athletes debating whether or not they’d swim it or race it. All…
Cathriona Farrell Lands National Junior Title
Competing in the U20 grade in the Irish National Indoor finals for the first time, Cathriona Farrell showed fantastic early season form when winning the Irish Junior High Jump title with a first-time clearance of 1.73m. With an indoor PB of 1.75m last year and an outdoor PB of 1.73m at the English AAA's in August, Cathriona had achieved the qualification standard for both the European Youth Olympics and the IAAF World Youth Championships. Earlier in January however, the Irish Olympic…
It’s Not a Long Way to Tipperary
Following is a very interesting report which one of our top juvenile athletes Maeve Curley wrote before Christmas on her experience at the Five Nations Race Walking Championships in Switzerland last year. As many will know Maeve regularly features in the medals at National level in her age group in race walking and has also made tremendous improvements in cross country running in 2008. Maeve emigrated from the wilds of Mayo (a small place called Westport) to Ardrahan a few…
Ageless Ryan blitzes Tuam again
A large crowd of what seemed to be well over 200 brave souls defied the weather to take on two laps of Tuam's breezy course yesterday. It was excellently organized and managed as usual by the experienced hands of host club Tuam AC. GCH legend Gerry Ryan was there and there was never any doubt of the outcome – he jogged away from all comers from the start to complete the race in about 25:02, on his own all of…
2009 Registration/Resumption of Fit4life and Circuit Training
Shake off the Christmas and New Year blues … get outside and get active!!! Your health is your wealth … nurture it when you have it! Craughwell AC's highly successful fit4life and circuit training programs are resuming in mid-January together with an intermediate speedwork program designed to take the more experienced members of fit4life to the next level of fitness if they want to go there. Please click on the 2 links below to see details of registration and fees…
Juvenile Club AGM on next Monday 12th January
The juvenile club AGM will take place on:- Monday 12th January @ 8pm in Craughwell Community Centre It is hoped that parents can support the good work being done in the club by attending the AGM. Every effort will be made to keep the AGM to an hours duration but at most it should go no later than 9.30pm. Juvenile registrations for 2009 are also due now. The form is on this Web site at :- This Link. Please bring completed…
Precious Metal Haul in Nenagh!
Craughwell AC were laden down with precious metal as they departed Nenagh on Saturday with an amazing haul of 95 medals weighing Liam Dervans bus down on the journey home from the Galway Indoor Track & Field Championships. Nenagh was a ghost-town that morning as our bus trundled through – the town still shell-shocked by the deaths a few days ago of three teenagers in a car accident. May they rest in peace. Craughwell had a huge number of participants in…
Galway Indoor Track & Field in Nenagh
This Saturday the Galway Indoor track and field takes place in Nenagh. A provisional program of events is available at www.galwayathletics.com. Note that all times are provisional and subject to change on the day. The following are some notes for parents/athletes on the day of the event, particularly for parents who have not been down in Nenagh before.