Craughwell Athletic Club

A fantastic day for Craughwell AC with some brilliant individual and team performances! U14 Girls – County Champions! A superb team performance saw all five Craughwell girls finish inside the top 10, securing County Gold. Emma McGovern led the team home with a fantastic finish to take individual bronze, followed by Muireann Kelly (6th), Leah O’Toole (7th), Aoife O’Connell (8th) and Naoise Quinn (9th). U18 Boys – A stunning debut from Harry Barrett, winning the U18 race by an impressive…

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Oisín Davis was the sole Craughwell AC Athlete in the 2026 Irish Universities Cross Country finals. Unless he decides to go back to College, this is his final year of competition and he was Men’s Team captain of a strong University of Galway outfit. After a solid training year that including some track PBs and a self-funded 3-week altitude camp in Font Romeau in late August, he showed good form with a win and at the Castlegar International Cross Country…

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After the drama of last week’s National Senior Championships, it was time for the epilogues of the season. It’s typical to take your fitness to some high quality races to see if you can convert it into a seasons or personal best time before you wrap it up for the season. Four Craughwell AC Athletes headed to IFAM Oordegem in Belgium to race in one of the top-quality meets in Europe. A highlight was probably Oisín lowering his own club…

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The best of the best in Irish Juvenile Athletics descended on a showery and windy Tullamore last weekend to battle for honours at the highest national level. In the U19 girls, Lauren Kilduff put an exclamation point on a stellar Juvenile career with a superb win in the 100m Hurdles in 14.51. Lauren heads to the states on scholarship next year and has gone from strength to strength throughout her Juvenile career. Lauren was joined on the podium by her…

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The very best athletes in Ireland descended on Abbotstown for the National Senior Track and Field last weekend. It was a great weekend with action, medals and new club records in the 60mh (Emma O’Donovan), Junior 400m (Lauren Kilduff) and 1500m (Oisin Davis). Darragh Kelly leaped to a massive Bronze medal in Nationals with a mighty 1.90m in the High Jump. Kelly sailed over every height in his first attempt but came unstuck at the 1.93 mark. 1.96m took Gold….

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On Saturday a large contingent of the Craughwell Men’s descended on the National Indoor Arena in Abbotstown to compete in the prestigious National League finals after qualifying among the top 8 clubs in the country. Sean Hoade was a one-man army on the day competing in a range of events.  He blazed out a strong 7.42 7th in the 60m to get things going with 2 points, followed by 5.80m for 6th in the long jump and 23.31 for 6th…

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The Armagh 5km is one of the top road races in Europe, attracting high-level competition particularly from the UK. You need to have run a sub-16 minutes for 5km in the last year to gain entry at all, and the slots mean that the slower sections of 15:30-16:00 fill up immediately. This years race was sponsored by On Running. The entry system is unique – they have slots for each 15-second bucket and very limited places. This year we had…

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David Frazer made his international debut for Ireland at the famous grounds of Parliament Hill Cross country course, near London on Saturday.  David lined up as part of a strong 8-man U17 team.  David ran a superb race, attacking on the downhills and easing back on the uphills.  In the end he finished 15th overall and 3rd Irish scorer, helping his team to a fabulous Gold medal. It is a remarkable achievement to represent your country and David will be…

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