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Month: January 2015

Craughwell Athletes in Blistering Form

Craughwell Athletes in Blistering Form

Sinead Treacy resumed her National medal-winning ways at the National Junior Track & Field last weekend with a fine silver medal in the Junior Women’s 200m in a time of 25.20. Sinead is in breath-taking form having earlier won her heat in 25.41 and having run 25.57 last weekend in the Galway Indoors. Earlier in the day Sinead narrowly missed out on making the final of the 60m by the slim margin of .03 seconds when placing 4th in her…

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Full results listing from Galway Indoors

Full results listing from Galway Indoors

The finalised results are attached below:- GalwayIndoorTrackAndField2015FinalResults.pdf Well done again to all of the Craughwell participants. We had a fabulous day out and I hope that everyone enjoyed the experience. We had over 230 athletes take part (over one-third of the participants) and we featured on the podium a massive 131 times with 43 Galway titles, 44 silver placings and 43 bronze placings. Read on for full details of the Craughwell AC medallists. Its not all about winning of course and we…

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Coldwood Fun Run for Kids

Coldwood Fun Run for Kids

Best wishes to Coldwood NS on their annual 4 mile frundraising run this Sunday at noon. You can register on the day. This year the organisers have introduced a 1km race for kids up to 3rd class and a 2km race for kids in 4th, 5th and 6th class. Entry is a €5 and every child gets a treat bag. 1st,2nd 3rd boys and girls get a medal. The kids races start at 11am with registration from 10.30am.

World Champion in Waiting!!

World Champion in Waiting!!

Huge congratulations to Galway and Carrabane woman Olive Loughnane whose silver medal performances at the World Championships in Berlin in 2009 is about to be upgraded to gold following the latest drugs scandal in Russia arising from which the gold medal winner has been banned. Incidentally, when our hard-working U11s were training on a cold night between Christmas and the New Year, who casually popped in for a walkaround the track with her husband – the lady herself, who generously…

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Massive International from Jamie

Massive International from Jamie

Well done to Jamie Fallon who last weekend represented Ireland in the Celtic Cross Country in Dunboyne. Jamie was selected for the team on the back of his strong performances in the club cross country last Autumn. THe Celtic Cross Country is an annual event between Ireland, Scotland, Ulster and Wales. Jamie was the second Irishman home in the U20 race and 7th overall in one of the best performances of his career. Results are at http://www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2288.

Partial results from Galway Indoors

Partial results from Galway Indoors

Well done everyone on fantastic performances yesterday and thanks to the army of volunteers who helped as officials on the day!!! Provisional results from the track attached here including the field results. Track results are still provisional as there are some outstanding queries.   Some of Craughwell AC’s U15 Athletes at the Indoor ChampionshipsAlison Leahy (60m silver medallist), Tara Slattery (Galway High Jump Champion), Siona Lawless (Galway 60m and Long Jump Champion)Ultan Sheeran (long jump silver medallist), Oisin Shannon (Galway Shot Putt…

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Senior Club Annual General Meeting.

Senior Club Annual General Meeting.

The Annual General Meeting of the Senior Club takes place on Sunday 11th January 2015 at 7.30pm in St. Michael’s Hall, Craughwell.  All our members are encouraged to attend and show your support for the club. We welcome input and new ideas from all our members and look forward to seeing you all at our Annual General Meeting.