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Month: June 2011

Huge Haul of Medals at Connacht U9-12 Track & Field Finals

Huge Haul of Medals at Connacht U9-12 Track & Field Finals

  Craughwell AC athletes excelled at the Connacht U9 to U12 Track & Field Championships at the weekend where the club had huge numbers taking part on a fine sunny day at Sligo IT's track. With clubs from all over Connacht in action the club's athletes took home almost a quarter of the medals awarded on the day, by far the top performance of any of the Connacht clubs. In the U9-11 team pairs, Craughwell finished in the top three with 16…

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Provisional Program for Connacht U9-12s Track & Field

Provisional Program for Connacht U9-12s Track & Field

Provisional programme for the U9 to 12s track and field that is on tomorrow in Sligo IT is at:- http://www.craughwellac.com/images/stories/2011/outdoors/western%20region%20team%20events%202011_final%20document%20090611.pdf Note order of events may change on the day.  If you are reading this and wondering where are the updates from the competitions held during last 3 weeks, I will try to get the website uptodate over the weekend … its a crazy time of year with competitions on every weekend. Sligo IT is above a 2 hour drive from…

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Craughwell U16s Do the Double at the Galway Community Games

Craughwell U16s Do the Double at the Galway Community Games

Craughwell participated in the parade for the first time in many years at the finals of the Galway Community Games and had the honour of reading the Comnunity Games pledge before the start of proceedings, a task which was proudly performed by Grainne McDaid. There were many fine performances from athletes from the Craughwell area and from other athletes in Craughwell AC representing surrounding areas. Representing Craughwell, Emma Jane Moran had a great series of runs in the U8 80m…

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Results from All-Ireland Schools Track & Field

Results from All-Ireland Schools Track & Field

A number of athletes travelled to Tullamore on Saturday for the pinnacle event of the juvenile athletics year – the Irish Schools Track & Field Championships. This event consistently provides the highest standard of juvenile athletics on this island, with athletes from all 32 counties battling it out for the honours. Maeve Curley took the only medal of the day by a Craughwell AC athlete when finishing in 2nd place in the Senior Girls 3000m walk, a placing which should…

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Craughwell AC Athletes Dominate Galway City Sports

Craughwell AC Athletes Dominate Galway City Sports

Athletes from Craughwell AC enjoyed remarkable success during the week while representing their primary schools at the Galway City Sports in Dangan. In the U9 grade, the Craughwell NS girl’s team raced to bronze medals in their 4x100m relay with the team of Ailbhe Miskella, Jane Trehy, Sarah McCartin, Mia Waters and subs Emer Mulveen and Zoe Gilligan, while in the U9 boys relay club members representing Oranmore Boys NS took the gold medals with Craughwell NS taking 4th place….

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Galway Community Games Program

Galway Community Games Program

The provisional program for the Galway Community Games which is on this Sunday and Monday in Ballinderrin is as follows: Please note that all times listed here are my guesswork and not official times – so don't hold me to them! Try to arrive at least 1 hour before your event. Also we've been selected to read the Community Games pledge at the start of the day on Sunday … so for the first time in yonks we will be…

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