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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In one of the toughest races on the annual cross-country calendar, Ciara Ward (Craughwell NS) and Leah O’Toole (Scoil Iosa Oranmore) had an exceptional race in the Connacht Primary Schools Cross Country Finals yesterday where they placed 1st and 3rd in the Senior Girls 1200m. In the results available since 2004, this is the first time as far as I am aware that we have had 2 athletes from the club place in the top 3 individually in this race…

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A large group of athletes from the club took part in the Connacht Schools Combined Events at the weekend in Athlone with outstanding success across the 4 age groups with athletes from the club taking 10 of the 32 Connacht qualifying spots for the All-Irelands with 1 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze and 3 fourth-place finishes. Aoife O’Connell (Clarin College) took silver in the First Year Girls age group with 2068 pts with 3.72m in the long jump, 10.17 in…

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Learn to run, jump and throw with one of the best clubs in the country! Subject to getting enough volunteers to commence our new youngest age group, Craughwell AC will be starting its youngest training group on Thursdays at 5.30pm for children born in 2020, commencing on Thursday 17th September. We will need help from parents on a rota basis to help with supervision of the session – as the children are so young. Existing coaches will help with teaching…

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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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Several of the club’s athletes represented County Galway with distinction at the weekend in the Round 1 of the National League in Tullamore with some fine performances to help the country qualify for the August finals with a 3rd place finish in the Women’s competition and 2nd place in the Men’s. Leanagh Gilligan took 2nd place in the Women’s High Jump equalling her PB of 1.55m and went very close to clearing the 1.60m mark. Later in the day Leanagh…

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