A small contingent from the club made the short journey down to Templemore AC’s fine facility for the Munster Senior Outdoors on the Bank Holiday Monday. In glorious sunshine, Laura Cunningham and Sarah Finnegan hit season’s bests in the triple jump with Laura leaping over the 10m mark on 3 of her jumps with a best of 10.16m on her 4th effort and Sarah leaping a best of 8.98 also on her 4th attempt. Laura’s leap was good enough to…
(thanks to Carol Brady for the brilliant report and photos!) The County Galway Community Games were held on Sunday the 4th of June 2023 in a very hot but very colourful Ballinderreen. The flags were up and the winners podium set up with a beautifully lined GAA pitch transformed for the day into a running track. This was a first for many of our young competitors running on grass and made the likes of hurdles a little more tricky. With…
A big thanks to Mary Kilroy and her team for this article, and for the photos and for resurrecting the local Community Games sports day! The Scene was set , Our new tartan track was ready, the officials on hand, the sun shone and the athletes shone even brighter. A hundred excited athletes ranging in age from over 6 to under 16 took part in 22 different track and field events on Friday evening May the 26th. Great performances were…
Yesterday saw the achievement of a huge milestone for the club with the completion of the tartan layer on our 400m track, with only the track lining remaining to be done now. When we bought the land back in 2014, it was always the dream that one day we’d have our own 400m track on it. In a 25-year plan set out at the time, we envisaged adding incrementally to the facility and having a 400m track by 2030 as…
A small group from the club took part in day 2 of the Dublin Graded Meets on Wednesday in Tallaght in windy and wet conditions. Jamie Fallon had a fine run in the men’s 1500m race, staying in the pack for the early laps before moving into the lead at the bell and outkicked from around 150m out to take a fine 2nd place in an impressive 4:00.11 in the windy conditions. The dark Dublin clouds unfortunately had gotten tired…
Attached below are some stats on indoor medalists at National level from U12s to Seniors. Our most prolific medal winner is Cathriona Farrell with 13 National indoor individual medals, followed closely by Evan Hallinan on 12, with Sinead Treacy (11), Jerry Keary (9) and Laura Cunningham (7) completing the top five. Winning 1 National medal is such an achievement but winning multiple is incredible. Here’s the list of the individual medal winners and the numbers won, a list that is…
What a weekend the club had at the National Juvenile Indoors. After an incredible Saturday where the club won 9 medals, the success story continued on Sunday when our athletes added another 9 medals with some outstanding performances. Over the 3 days of the finals, the club took a massive haul of 21 medals, its most successful in the history of the club and we sit proudly behind Leevale AC as the 2nd most successful club in the country and…
Congrats Conor Penney who was presented with the Athletics Ireland Juvenile Star Award for 2022 at the Connacht Championships today. The Star Awards are presented to one athlete from each county each year in recognition of the most individual medals won by each athlete at National Juvenile Championships. Conor’s fantastic achievements in 2022 included winning 4 National titles in the indoor and outdoor sprint hurdles and in the indoor and outdoor high jump, as well as bronze in the outdoor…
There were some fantastic performances by athletes from the club today on the first day of the Connacht Indoor Track & Field with the highlight being the Championship Best Performance of 1:56.47 set by our U13 Boys when winning the gold in their 4x200m relay with Lincoln King, Sean Colleran, Ruairi McNena and Darragh O’Donnell. Earlier in the day, the U12 girls team almost repeated that feat with a fine silver medal in their 4x200m in a time of 2:08.10…
Evan Hallinan put in an exhilarating series of jumps today in the European U20 DNA event in Madrid. Pitted against the Spanish athlete in round 1, Evan nominated 1.90 as his height with the Spanish athlete nominating 1.98 (just slightly higher than Evan’s PB of 1.96m incidentally – a tactical choice by the Spaniard who has a PB of 2.12). Evan had to jump first and soared over the 1.90m. However, the Spanish athlete did likewise over the 1.98m mark…
