One of our senior members Peggy Lynch was involved in the organisation of the latest race to hit our calander.The pakie Ryan memorial took place in Newmarket on fergus last week & proved to be a great sucess.We wish them all the sucess and look forward to taking part over the coming years.Well done to Peggy and all involved. Results Below:
Full Results for Fit4Life time trial are posted below click Read More. Many thanks to all who turned out in the bad conditions and many thanks to all the helpers also .
Peadar Harvey on the podium after a super silver in the U18 1500m Another day of drama unfolded in Nenagh on day 2 of the National indoor finals. First into action was Claire Ryder in the U15 girls long jump. Claire is the club’s most consistent long jumper over the years – finishing in the bronze medal in the U12 indoors in 2007, just 5cm behind the winner Fingallian’s Bronwyn Keogh; finishing 4th in 2008 just 1cm…
Linda Porter delivered an incredible return to form in Nenagh today in the U17 Girls 1500m at the National Juvenile Indoor Championships in Nenagh when winning the National title in fine style. This is Linda’s first National individual title and just reward for a lot of hard work over the years. Having had a year of ups and downs in 2009, Linda’s class won through today. Running a very controlled race that commenced with a 100m split of…
News filtered across the Irish sea earlier today of Conor Gillen's fantastic race as Ireland's 6th man home in the Schools International Cross Country in England. Having taken the 8th qualifying spot on the Irish team, Conor put in an exceptional performance to finish in the final scoring place for the Irish team and help the team to the bronze medals in the process. Well done Conor!!! I will update this article with more detail when our newest international returns…
Sorry it took so long for me to cross-check the results against the video. The final results are up here. There were a few changes to the category prizes. Notably Craughwell ladies team passed out Loughrea into 3 place in the Galway Championships due to a mystery male runner posing as one of the Loughrea ladies. Also – the results are completed with all the higher age categories. Well done again to everyone that helpd make this such a fun event.
Just spotted a few more pictures from a man called Daniel Kowalczyk over on RacePix.com. Only a few pictures in there but definitely worth checking out as they are very good work from a talented snapper. See the full set here.
Kilconerion charity road race was a great sucess again this year raising 1800 euro for the Alan Kerins charity. To date the race has profited 5000 euro, from two annual road races and a special tribute night for local sports star Olive Loughnane . Last year the organisers gave 1500 to the charity Bothar. Earlier on this year over 1500 euro was awarded to local Senator Ciaran Cannon and Councillor Michael Meaher for their cycle to Lourdes in aid…
Best of luck to Conor Gillen who competes for Ireland this weekend when taking on the best runners from Ireland and Great Britain at the International Schools cross-country in England. This is hopefully the first of many internationals for Conor and is a just recognition of his exceptional talent and hopefully just a stepping stone to greater things. Full details of the teams are at http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?p=12590. Conor and Ballina's Ciaran Treacy are the only Connacht athletes to make the teams….
The Galway qualifying round for the National Community Games cross-country finals was held in Tuam last Sunday. The fine record of the club's athletes (and former members!) in qualifying on Galway teams was upheld brialliantly. Grainne McDaid got the day off to a terrific start with a fine victory in the U12 Girls 600m, with Leanne Freaney finishing just outside the automatic 6 qualifying places that will make up the Galway team for the National finals. Liam Forde and Oisin Doyle took 1st and 2nd places…
