As part of our fund-raising campaign for our new field and facility adjacent to the national school, we are holding a golf classic in August and are appealing to all members to get involved whether it be getting a team together to enter it or getting some sponsorship from your company or from businesses with whom you deal. Please support as this facility is for you and your children. It directly supports the work that our super coaching team are…
Best of luck to all of our athletes competing in Tullamore on Saturday in the U9-11 National finals. Be proud of yoursevles for such a great achievement in getting to the National finals. Hopefully the day goes well for you and you come home with a personal best in your event. If not, there’s always another race or event coming up so don’t let it bother you! The timetable for the day is at: http://46.22.133.116/downloads/other/Juvenile_Teams_Competition_Timetable_2014.pdf Please liase with your age…
Allow an hour and 10 minutes from Craughwell. Easiest way to Tullamore is to take the main Galway-Dublin motorway as far as Kilbeggan. Once you pass Athlone, there are 2 junctions for Moate and the next one after that is Kilbeggan and Tullamore. You turn off there and go under the motorway and its about 10 mins to Tullamore. When you reach the outskirts you turn right at the first roundabout, i.e. last exit straight through next roundabout (no other…
Congratulations to Cathriona Farrell who was selected for her first senior international to compete on the Irish team who travel to Estonia tomorrow to compete in the European Team Cup. Cathriona will be competing in the high jump on Sunday at 4pm Irish time. Her selection is well deserved after a strong indoor season where Cathriona broke the Irish Universities record for indoor high jump when leaping 1.81m in Athlone in February (pictured below) and proceeded to record a new…
Please support a fantastic fundraising appeal by two of our members Ashley and Christopher McDonnell who are travelling to Cambodia this summer to help some of the poorest children in the world. Christopher was a member of our U15 boys 4x100m relay team who won National silver in 2011 while Ashley is one of our most successful athletes winning long jump and middle distance medals at National level including the National 600m title as an 11 year old in 2005…
Order of events is attached below for the Connachts in Sligo. Please arrive at least an hour before your event because events can and likely will be brought forward:- Order of events I will review the list of entries to come up with an estimated time for the field events. For directions to Sligo IT, click on Home … Directions on the main menu.
Another year, more drama and ultimately more success than disappointment when we look back on the Connachts in Sligo for u11s in 2014. The day kicked off with a measure of the latter, when the u11 Girls Relay team (Alex Slamas, Rebecca Lynch, Rebekah Flynn, Emily Miskella sub Caoimhe Connolly) failed to qualify for the All-Irelands for the first time. This was a disappointment for a team that had won the County title in such style, but the margins get…
The 2014 Galway County Junior & Senior Track and Field championships will take place in Dangan as follows:- Thursday 12 June – 8pm County 10,000m Championships Registration at 7.15pm Sunday 29 June – 1.30pm Events: 200m, Long Jump, Shot Putt, Discus, 800m, Weight for Distance (only Seniors and Masters), 4x100m relay, 3000m women/5000m men Thursday 10 July – 7pm Events: 100m, 400m, Triple Jump, Javelin, Hammer, 1500m, High Jump, 4x400m relay Information Cost of entry is €5 per day. All…
Some of Craughwell AC’s U9 Squad at the Connacht Track & Field Championships in Sligo Full results of U9-11s are are the bottom of this article. Just making you all read my article before you get to them!! Results of U12s will be added when published. Craughwell AC’s younger age groups practically relocated en masse to Sligo IT today for the U9-12s. With 46 pairs having qualified from the Galway championships in the U9s, 10s and 11s, the club were…
The order of events for Saturday’s track and field is below:- ConnachtU9-12TFOrderOfEvents.pdf Note the starting time of 11am. Start times for individual events are not given but from the order of the program, I would expect the following:- U10 boys and girls will go to long jump straight after their relays U11 boys and girls javelin might start first thing at 11am as their relays are last U12 high jump and shot putt will likely start after their relays but…
