Craughwell Athletic Club

The club is absolutely delighted to learn yesterday that it has been awarded a LEADER grant of €117,000 towards the provision of a toilet block and community room on its 8-acre grounds adjacent to Craughwell national school. Provision of toilets for our large membership is 1 of the priority needs of the club and this grant is a massive boost for the club’s ambitious development plans. The grant is the second LEADER grant approved this year, with funding of €15,000…

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Best of luck to Jack Miskella who competes in his first Irish international this weekend in Antrim. Jack was selected for the Irish Universities team that will be taking on Scotland on Saturday in the annual international track & field meet between the 2 countries. He becomes the 22nd athlete to come through the juvenile ranks of the club and gain selection for international duty. To represent your country in any sport is one of the highest honours a sportsperson…

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County Galway Women’s team who contested Round 1 of the Premier Division of the National Athletics League at the weekendBack row: Leanagh Gilligan , Ailbhe Miskella, Ellie Cronin, Mary Barrett, Laura Nally, Nicole Walsh, Maeve Curley, Rachel Finnegan, Sarah Finnegan (manager)Front row: Freya Bohan, Aoibhinn Farrell, Aisling Joyce, Sinead Gaffney, Aisling Keady, Lydia Doyle (missing from photo Arlene Earls and Caoimhe Kelleher) Several athletes from the club represented County Galway in round 1 of the National Senior League held in…

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Pres Athenry’s Sean Noonan in action in the Senior Boys 800m at the Connacht Schools Track & Field in Athlone Athletes from the club enjoyed tremendous success at the Connacht Secondary Schools Track & Field Championships which were held last Thursday in Athlone. While official results are not yet available, the following provides a summary. I will up date when official results are made available and in the meantime if anyone is missed or incorrectly reported below, please let me…

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Alana Grogan (U15 Girls 2k Walk Champion), Tara Morgan (U14 Girls Javelin bronze medalist) and Aoibhe Fahy (U15 Girls Javelin Champion) at the Galway Championships in Dangan A little late in getting this report up. Craughwell AC had another marvelous day of track and field at day 2 of the Galway Championships in Dangan where the U13 to U19 age groups were in action on SUnday 12th May. Ellie Cronin was the star performer on the day with triple gold medals…

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See attached flyer for all of the details on the athletics fit4fun summer camp. Numbers will possibly need to be restricted and will be filled on a first come first served basis .. so please book earler to avoid disappointment.      

With elections approaching again, the club wishes to highlight the fantastic support that we have received from many local politicians for our athletics facility development since we purchased the 8-acre athletics site in 2014 and in particular the financial support and votes that we received when Galway County Council took the access roadway into the facility into their charge in 2015. At the time, these councillors collectively contributed €21,000 of their notice of motion funds to bring the roadway up…

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