Craughwell Athletic Club

Craughwell AC’s U11 Squad at the Connacht Championships in Claremorris Yet another brilliant day of athletics from the club on yet another day of challenging weather conditions. The day kicked off with the relays where the club had some outstanding performances taking all 4 Connacht titles in the boys races and bronze in the U9, U10 and U11 girls relays and 4th place in the U12 girls relay. Huge achievements all around! Full details of our performances are below. Well…

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Our Guinness World Record relay attempt has become a bigger event and is evolving into a health-themed day for all ages with a focus on mental and physical health, while at the same time the 12-hour relay world record attempt will be running throughout the day. If you are involved in a charity or business with a mental or physical health focus and would like to attend with information on the day, please contact Tracy at  087 8810737. Because of…

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Galway Community Games ChampionsMia Waters (80m Hurdles) and Eva Kelly (Shot Putt) The annual pilgrimage to Ballindereen for the finals of the Galway Community Games took place as normal in its ancestral home at the weekend. While some may say the numbers are dwindling in the Community Games, it ain’t that way in Craughwell with 47 athletes taking part over the 3 days of competition and it’s as hard as ever to get through to National finals. The finals kicked…

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Presentation College Athenry Senior Boys 4x100m Relay TeamBronze Medallists at the Irish Schools Track & Field 2015Cillian Dolan, Cillian Greene, Conor Duggan, Evan Quirke On Saturday last, the cream of Irish juvenile athletics faced each other in the Irish Schools Track & Field in Tullamore. With 30 athletes from the club having qualified from the Connacht finals, it was the club’s highest participation ever in these finals. These finals are widely considered the highest standard of juvenile athletics in the…

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Clarinbridge NS Athletics Squad at the Galway County Sports 2015 Craughwell NS enjoyed its best year ever at the Galway City Sports last Wednesday with 6 individual medals and 4 sets of relay medals despite absolutely horrible weather conditions when it rained incessantly for the duration of the event. The weather conditions were in stark contrast to those a day earlier when the County Sports took place at the same Dangan venue on one of the hottest days of the…

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