Craughwell Athletic Club

Provisional results of today’s cross country finals are here. Any queries should be referred to tobinm1@yahoo.com. Well done to everyone who took part and a big thank you to all who helped. The top 15 individuals and top 3 teams in each age group go forward to the Connacht finals which take place in Sligo on Saturday 15th October in Sligo. I will publish more precise details on the venue and start time when it has been announced. 2016GalwayPrimarySchoolsXC_Finals_ProvisionalResults.pdf We make a…

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And as a parting gift to our celebrity guests, the club presented a set of 10 Back Baller foam rollers to the celebrities and their experts to help them in their athletic pursuits. The Back Baller is the invention of Shannon-based entreprenur Noel Marshall and comes highly recommended by the renowed Limerick physical therapist Gerard Hartmann and Ireland’s leading female athlete Sonia O’Sullivan. It was recently launched in Shannon and by all accounts, is just flying out of the warehouse…

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Lovely finale to the Celebrity Operation Transformation show with a lovely piece on the club and the activities last Saturday which capture perfectly the spirit of the club as a happy happy place for exercise and fun as well as developing your skills to the best of your ability. Well done Operation Transformation! And roll on Craughwell AC!!! … things are just flying now … new facilities almost complete … massive publicity on national TV … loads of new kids…

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Don’t miss the big event … tonight 9:35pm RTE1 …. starring Craughwell AC with support from the celebs!!!!

A massive thank you to Ray O’Connor who bailed us out in an emergency last Saturday. With Operation Transformation coming to town we were very concerned that we were not going to have enough paint for the extra numbers in the colour run and Ray very kindly loaned us boxes of powder that RunIreland had left over from a colour run earlier this year as well as loaning us the RunIreland race gantry for use as the finish line for…

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Start of the West Division Senior Boys race – picture by Sean Ryan Well done to all who took part in the semi-finals of the primary schools cross country today in Renmore. The event saw its highest ever participation with 1463 children entered and 765 taking part in the West Division races and 613 in the East races. Provisional results are here:- 2016GalwayPrimarySchoolsXC_SemiFinals_ProvisionalResults.pdf Any queries should be referred to tobinm1@yahoo.com. THe finals take place in the same field in Renmore next…

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The club had such a fantastic day on Saturday at our Yeats College Colour Run and Xyea Family 5k and with the Operation Transformation team. After a whirlwind few days since Tuesday when the Operation Transformation team selected our event for their final challenge, a huge effort from an army of helpers within the club got the show on the road early Saturday morning. The Operation Transformation team arrived around 9.30am and it was pretty much non-stop action from then…

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The world is coming to Craughwell this Saturday!! Celebrity Operation Transformation are on their way to our Colour Run and 5k Race this Saturday. With the races sponsored by Xyea and Yeats College, what was a relatively big event has become a HUGE event with the TV cameras rolling from 11am to 3pm!!! Here’s a word from Jill (one of the Producers) to help tease out these stories:-  Our celebs & experts are really looking forward to trying their hand…

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