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Month: March 2022

Lorraine and Jade star at Leinster Indoors

Lorraine and Jade star at Leinster Indoors

The club made a rare appearance at the Leinster Indoor Championships held in Athlone yesterday where Jade Moorhead took part in the Junior Women’s High Jump and Lorraine Delaney in the Senior Women’s 400m. Jade was on in the morning and entered the competition at her opening height of 1.55m when all but 2 of the competitors had exited. Jumping cleanly over 1.55m and 1.58m, there were just 2 competitors left when the bar reached 1.61m. Jade was unlucky to…

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Brilliant Results in National Indoors 2022

Brilliant Results in National Indoors 2022

The highlight of the Juvenile Indoor Athletics Calendar took place in Athlone this weekend over two days of high-quality action in the National Juvenile U12-U19 Indoor Championships, and there were some amazing performances from Craughwell AC Athletes to win an amazing SIX Gold, one Silver and three Bronze medals.   Rachel Warde amazingly won Gold in both of her events – the challenging 60m on Saturday and the 60mh on Sunday.  Rachel won the 60m with a fantastic 8.09 win in…

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Damian back with some new Club Records!

Damian back with some new Club Records!

On a windy weekend in Lafayette, Louisiana Damian O’Boyle was back in action for the Ragin’ Cajuns for the first time after a couple of poor seasons in Track and Cross Country since 2021 plagued by chronic Achilles problems. It’s been a long journey but after platelet injections, three different therapists and two different orthopedic specialists, “the old man” as he has become affectionately known as in Lafayette appears to be well back on the right track. The Ragin’ Cajuns…

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Sinéad and the Gang blitz the Green Mile

Sinéad and the Gang blitz the Green Mile

In an atmosphere not seen since the Eurocross, the Craughwell lads and lasses were out in force to put on a fine display of middle distance running in the inaugural Tribal Running Green Mile, sponsored by Trappers Inn. Sinéad Gaffney was first lady home in a fantastic 5:17, a new club record!. In the men’s race, Sinéad’s boyfriend Keith Fallon put the young guns in their places with a fine win in the men’s category in 4:26, just 1s ahead…

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Paddy Noonan Gold leads historic Medal Rush

Paddy Noonan Gold leads historic Medal Rush

The National Junior and U23 is one of the last Indoor events of the year and Craughwell fielded a large group of competitors across the disciplines with no less than 11 athletes competing across 15 events, showing the strength of the club of late in these age groups as they won an exception SEVEN National medals. Highlight performances had to be Patrick Noonan’s famous win and Evan Hallinan’s outstanding triple medal winning performance. Track: Paddy and Kyle show! One of…

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Declan wins first Cap in Epic Irish Schools XC

Declan wins first Cap in Epic Irish Schools XC

All roads led to County Antrim on Sauturday for one of the biggest days on the Irish Athletics Calendar – the Irish Secondary Schools Cross Country Finals at the beautiful facilities of Mallusk. A dream commentary team of Feidhlim Kelly and Fintan O’Reilly made for a superb atmosphere for everyone enjoying the top level sport, for free!. The sun broke through on a pretty tough course – being mostly flat with a fair degree of muck, and a gut wrenching…

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Craughwell 10 Race Day Details 2022

Craughwell 10 Race Day Details 2022

Race number collection: If you opted for postage your race number was posted on the 10th/11th of March so it should be with you within a few days. If you opted to collect your race number will be available for collection from 08.45am to 9.45am on Sunday, the 20th of March, at our race HQ in St. Michael’s Hall Craughwell. Please arrive early to collect your race number. 10 Mile Race starts at 10.30am. 10km Race starts at 10.45am. There…

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The lads help the fox come Home!

The lads help the fox come Home!

The famous “Fox” trophy made its way back to NUIG for the second year in a row, this time helped on by FOUR Craughwell AC “Wolves” in the squad. In ideal conditions on an exemplary course, Seán Cotter had the absolute race of his life with an incredible 10th place finish overall as 3rd NUIG scorer. Seán finished ahead of no less than TWO European Cross country team members en-route. Patrick Noonan came 24th. Patrick has been in good form…

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