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Month: April 2018

Program for Dangan U13-19s

Program for Dangan U13-19s

Craughwell AC U11s and some of the spectators in Dangan in 2015 🙂 The provisional program for next weekend’s Galway Track & Field in Dangan for age groups U13 to U19 has been published:-  Juvenile_Outdoor_Track_and_Field_Timetable_29April2018.pdf Please arrive at least 1 hour before your event to give time to collect race number, warmup etc. Notes from competition secretary: There is one big change to the guide timetable previously circulated, the first three track events are now sprint hurdles – 1500s –…

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Craughwell Community Games May 11th 2018

Craughwell Community Games May 11th 2018

Flashback to the past when current 6th class were in pre-school ! Craughwell Community Games sports day will take place on Friday May 11th at Craughwell AC’s grounds in Crinnage commencing at 6pm with the pre-school races. On what is always a very exciting day, there will be sprints for pre-school, U6s, U8s, U10s, U12s, U14s and U16s as well as distance races for U12/14/16, hurdles for U10 and U14, U12 ball throw, U14 long jump, shot putt and javelin,…

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Great Night at the Galway Athletics Awards

Great Night at the Galway Athletics Awards

  Craughwell AC’s Chloe Casey, Jerry Keary, Laura Cunningham and Caron Ryanat the Annual Galway Athletics Awards in the Meadowcourt Hotel Congratulations again to several Craughwell AC athletes who received awards at the Galway Annual Athletics Awards ceremony held in the Meadowcourt Hotel at the weekend. Chloe Casey and Jerry Keary were awarded Galway Athlete of the Year 2017 in the U16-19 age group categories as well as International Awards, well done Chloe and Jerry! And congratulations also to Laura…

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Super Performances at Universities T&F

Super Performances at Universities T&F

Current and former members of Craughwell AC at the Irish Universities Track & Field Championships in BelfastMaeve Curley (UL), Matthew McKernan (NUIG), Sinead Gaffney (UL), Sinead Treacy (NUIG), Conor Duggan (UCD) The first event of the outdoor track and field season got underway in Belfast at the weekend where a number of athletes competed in the Irish Universities Track & Field. Sinead Treacy helped NUIG to an historic victory in the 4x100m in a time of 48.34 and also the silver…

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Congratulations to Galway Award & Bursary Winners!

Congratulations to Galway Award & Bursary Winners!

Massive congratulations to Chloe Casey and Jerry Keary who have been selected as Galway Athletes of the Year 2017 in the categories of U16-19 Girls and U16-19 Boys with the awards being presented this coming Saturday at a ceremony in the Meadowcourt Hotel. Well done to both as its a huge achievement up against some of the best athletes in not just the county but also the country with 10+ Galway athletes in these age groups selected for Ireland last…

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Amazing Weekend Wraps up Indoor Season

Amazing Weekend Wraps up Indoor Season

Craughwell AC’s U19 Girls Relay Team, National 4x200m silver medallistsShauna Tobin, Siona Lawless, Arlene Earl, Laura Cunningham, Lorraine Delaney The final day of the National Juvenile Indoor Track & Field took place in Athlone IT last Saturday where Craughwell AC rounded off its most successful year ever of indoor competition with 5 more medals coming its way. Laura Cunningham and Lorraine Delaney got the day off to a wonderful start when taking the silver and bronze medals in the U19 Girls…

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2018 Galway County 10 Mile Championship

2018 Galway County 10 Mile Championship

2018 Galway AAI 10M Road Race County Championship – Official Result   Congrats to the Craughwell ladies team who came third, Kevin Mooney, Celia Miskella and Kieran O leary who won medals in their individual Categories! Individual: Male 1st Bidwell Matt MALE 00:56:22 00:56:22 GCH 2nd Mooney Kevin MALE 00:56:32 00:56:32 Craughwell 3rd Whirskey John MALE 00:58:24 00:58:24 South Galway AC Female 1st Meehan Jane Ann FEMALE 01:01:56 01:01:55 Athenry 2nd Ni Uallachain Grainne FEMALE 01:04:09 01:04:07 GCH 3rd Brody Sinead…

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Recent Races

Recent Races

Lots of action from the club with races over the last few weeks. Congratulations to Elisha Daniëls who completed the Rotterdam marathon on Sunday and to Brian Gorman who recently completed the longwood marathon in Meath. Over the Easter there was a great choice of races to choose from. On Easter Saturday Niamh Ni Flavin, Damian Larkin, Gerry Treacy and Rena Deely ran the 10k in Colemanstown in great times. In Ennis, the Eamon Moloney memorial 10k was completed by Noel Gorman, Stephen Carty, Fiona…

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Galway Outdoors CBPs

Galway Outdoors CBPs

Athenry AC’s Iain Shaw has just published the list of Galway Outdoor Championship Best Performances for the juvenile age groups from a trawl of available results. Galway_Outdoor_Championship_Best_Performances_2018.pdf Well done Iain, not an easy task! Please let Iain know directly if you spot any errors or ommissions. Some notes from Iain: Where a hand time is very significantly faster than an electronic time, I have kept with the hand time. If a hand time and electronic time are within 0.3s of…

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