Senior Club membership falls due on January 1st. Please find the 2017 Membership form attached. Please download this form and complete in full and either give it to any member of the committee or you can bring it to the AGM which will take place on Sunday 8th of January in St. Michael’s Hall, Craughwell at 7.30pm. An official registration night will take place the following week. Details to follow. Any new or existing member who wish to take part…
Craughwell AC’s membership renewal is due at the start of January for all juvenile/junior/student members who are on a Jan-Dec cycle. That’s the majority of members. If in any doubt, consult your age group coach who may already have texted you about it. To facilate getting renewals in, our register Mike O’Connor will hold registration hours at the following times in the green shed at the pedestrian entrance to our new athletics field- – Thurs 5th Jan: 7pm to…
Festive Fun run report by Maria Gorman Aged 8 I arrived down at the track, other people were arriving too. We were getting ready to run the fun run. We all walked down to the start line. We had a choice of 1km or 2km and I decided to run two kms which is five laps. Before we started we sang a happy birthday to Stephen. The whistle blew and away we went. Everyone was wearing something Christmassy and they…
Fun run at 11.00am, 27th December at the Senior Club track open to all members & their families with some hot punch and little treats after. Its a free entry social event for the club. Please wear your Santa hats , Xmas jumpers etc as spot prizes for best dressed runners… Choice of distance , 1 mile , 5km or just a walk/jog…Below is a link to john o’connor’s wonderful photos he took at last years event….lots of smiling faces……
But she doesn’t flood our tartan! Pictured below at 10am this morning as Barbara rained down on Craughwell is the part of the school track and roadway near the pedestrian entrance to the track. As you see there is water everywhere. And pictured next is our porous tartan sprint area and high jump area … same conditions, no water!!
Our annual calendar / directory for 2017 is being circulated by club members throughout the area this week and over the holiday period and first week of January. We initiated the calendar/directory in December 2002 with the first year being 2003. So 2017 is the 15th year of the calendar. In that time, the calendar has generated a profit for the club of over €5000 each year … when you add it up, that’s a massive €75000. If you took…
Craughwell U17s at the club’s training session on the ice rink in Leisureland!Ciana Reidy, Lorraine Delaney, Shauna Tobin, Laura Cunningham As the athletics year draws to a close, Craughwell AC would like to wish all of its members a very happy Christmas and a successful New Year. It was another wonderful year for the club with the ongoing development of its facilities in Crinnage and consolidating its position as the largest juvenile club in Ireland with over 600 members. The…
Sean Cotter, Finbar McFadden and Kyle Moorhead at the National U15 Cross Country Championships held at Dundalk IT A belated report on last weekend’s cross country where a small band of athletes from the club made the journey to Dundalk for day 2 of the National Juvenile Cross Country Championships. Top finisher on the day from the club was Mathys Bocquet who took 28th place in the U11 Boys 1500m and led his team to 12th place overall with Evan…
The Craughwell 10 Mile Sunday March 19th 2017. © John O’Connor The Craughwell 10 Mile will take place on Sunday March 19th 2017. This will be the 8th year of this fantastic event which never fails to deliver an exciting field of local and national athletes. Incorporation of the Galway 10 mile championship makes for a very competitive day out for all. Fast flat AAI permitted race and chip timed. Registration will open soon. Check back for details or…
Amsterdam and Dublin- 2 marathons in 2 weeks! The Journey to Amsterdam! The journey began one Saturday night in January when my husband got a mad notion, lets go to Amsterdam and do the marathon. Twenty minutes later, flights, hotel and marathon was booked! Its that easy! Instantly I texted some other enthusiastic Craughwell members and soon everyone was being cojoled and even begged to come along. Not long we had 12/13 runners signed up and the journey began…. The…
