Claire Ryder Selected for Ireland!
Claire Ryder was rewarded for her fine performances in long jump this year when she was selected for the Irish U16 Schools team to contest the Celtic Cup in Wales next January.
Fundraising Coffee Morning in Jodie’s!
Jodie and Micheline have kindly organised a coffee morning this Friday to raise funds for community sports facilities, donating the proceeds to the Craughwell Community Sports Group which as you know include the athletic club. Please come along to support it sometime between 9am and 6pm tomorrow! All monies raised will be going towards facilities.
Directions and Timetable to Tullamore for National XCountry
Athletics Ireland have the following link with directions to the venue. Basically you park in Tullamore Harriers stadium which is in the town a few 100m from the town centre: http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?page_id=16556 A course map and timetable are also at above link. The first race U11 girls starts at 11.30am. Everyone participating should try to be there by 10.30am to give chance to walk the course, warmup, get race numbers etc.. The easiest way to get to Tullamore is to stay…
Craughwell 10 2010 Irish Runner Article
Forget your Runner's world. The Irish Runner is about the best running magazine you can get. Why? Some of the reasons for me are the insider news on Irish elites, the chance that you can see familiar faces (or even yourself) in the crowd at the start of races or better your name in the results!, the recepies which are always easy to make even for a pleb like me. The training articles are every bit as good as the…
Irish U23 Cross Country Team Claim Historic European Gold
Congratulations to the Irish U23 cross country team who yesterday won Ireland's first ever team gold in the European Cross Country Championships. The articles in today's papers would be well worth reading for any aspiring young distance runner, e.g. http://www.examiner.ie/sport/other-sport/mccarthy-says-win-will-spark-gold-rush-139215.html But also check out the history of these men by looking at previous results of cross country as they came up through the ranks, swapping positions at the top each year, e.g. 2004 U17 Boys: http://www.athleticsireland.ie/JUV_2004/u17b/04xccind.htm. Laois's Michael Mulhare…
Christmas Night at the Dogs Tonight!
Just a quick update on this as 1 or 2 people have asked if its on since some greyhound meetings were cancelled last week. The good news is that Galway Greyhound Stadium is going ahead tonight – ice and snow have melted and roads are much improved So we hope that a big crowd can come tonight, If you haven't yet returned payment for the tickets but plan to go, come along and we can sort out the payment next…
Fit4Life Cancelled again this week!
We are sorry but all Fit4Life sessions cancelled again this week,hopefully all will be back to normal next week.
Connacht Squad Session Cancelled
Note that the Connacht squad session scheduled for tomorrow has been cancelled due to weather conditions.
Come along to the club’s Night at the Dogs!
Friday 10th December Enjoy a Night at the Dogs with Craughwell Athletic Club and its Craughwell Community Sports Group partners . All monies raised go towards providing improved facilities for the club! When we last organised such an event 2 years ago, everyone had a thoroughly enjoyable time. While its not a great time to have grandiose plans and ambitions, this is precisely what the club has. We hope to be in a position soon to acquire a site…