Steve carty and I won our entries in a raffle from the club with Steve taking on the half marathon and myself doing the inaugural 10km event , these were extra events for the lough cutra triathlon weekend which also included single swim events as well as sprint relays. Other past and present craughwell ac members running today were aoife , colm , deirdre , arthur , rena , jane , mary and kevin. We also spotted val fogarty…
Well done to Brian Matthews and Declan O Leary who completed the limerick marathon which was held over the May bank holiday weekend. Margaret Murphy, Rena Deely and Colm Niland also completed the half marathon, it was hot on the day so well done to all! The Galway 5k series is over for another year- well done to all who participated. Congratulations to Stephen Carty, Dave Callanan and Brian Matthews who recorded pbs during the series. Well done to the…
Best of luck to all of our athletes taking part in the forthcoming Connacht track & Field on the next 2 Saturdays, The timetables are here:- Day 1 Sat 9th June: U9s to U13s OrderOfEventsConnachtDay1.pdf Day 2 Sat 16th June: U14s to Seniors OrderOfEventsConnachtDay2.pdf The following are some notes from the Connacht Secretary:-
Kyle Moorhead, Galway Community Games U16 Boys 1500m Champion 2018 A very busy week of athletics concluded with the finals of the Galway Community Games in Ballinderrin where the parish had some tremendous success across the range of events. The relays provided some of the highlights with Craughwell taking the victory in the U15 Mixed 4x100m with Ava Finn, Rebecca Lynch, Robert Urquhart and Lughaigh Morgan, and in the U14 Girls 4x100m with Fauve Aylmer, Siofra Davis, Erin Kelly and…
Chloe Casey and Sean Cotter who both won silver at the Irish Schools Track & Fieldwith Chloe in the Intermediate Girls Discus and Sean in the IntermediateBoys 3000m Possibly the busiest week on the athletics calendar all year saw 5 major competitions held in the past week with the Galway County Sports, Galway City Sports, Galway Senior Track & Field, Irish Schools Track and Field and Galway Community Games. The highlight of the week was the fantastic silver medals won…
Craughwell AC’s Senior 4x400m teams who both broke the club senior record at the Galway T&FMen: Jack Miskella, Conor Duggan, John Cormican and Luke EvansWomen: Sinéad Treacy, Arlene Earls, Sinéad Gaffney and Dearbhaile Walsh Day 2 of the Galway Senior League took place last Thursday evening with some super performances and great team spirit amongst the Craughwell AC men and women leading to a series of victories and top 8 finishes to put the team into a commanding lead of over…
Craughwell NS at the Galway City Sports 2018 A busy week of athletics saw the Galway County Sports held last Tuesday and City Sports held on Wednesday, both in Dangan for primary schools children. There were many fine performances from athletes from the club in several of the schools in action.
Well we certainly know it is Summer time in Galway with the glorious weather we have been having. Secondary schools are closed to non exam students and the rest are surrounded by piles of books for those last few days of studying. All our primary schools will be finishing up before we know where we are and what then????? — weeks of boredom. We can alleviate that and break the monotony. Are you looking for an activity break? Are you…
