
Quick look back at Craughwell NS in the Galway City Sports
Craughwell NS at the 2011 City Sports
Back: Ronan Nevin, Jack Miskella, Jack Craven, Cillian Dolan, Ian Connolly, Emma Gaffney, Aisling Keady, Grainne McDaid, Erin Fitzpatrick, Michelle Duggan
Middle: Conor Callaghan, Victor Costello, Dylan Fowler, Diarmuid McCartin, Darren Lyons, Cian Waters, Micheál McFadden, Dean Callanan, Aoife Walsh, Laura Cunningham, Sandra Greaney, Shauna Tobin, Anna Farrelly, Aoife Raftery, Sarah Phillips
Front: Emer Mulveen, Sarah McCartin, Cian Garman, Finbarr McFadden, Jack Walsh, Eanna McDaid, Ailbhe Miskella, Mia Waters, Jane Trehy, Zoe Gilligan
It’s being 12 years since Craughwell NS first took part in the Galway City Sports in 2005 with an uninterrupted record except for 2007 when we didn’t take part. Ashley McDonnell has the honour of being the first ever medal winner from the school in the City Sports with victory in the U13 800m when in 5th class in 2005. The same year the U13 girls relay team took our first relay medal with gold from Katie O’Donoghue, Debi Kenny, Orla McDaid, Maireád McCan and Maria McNamara.
Conor Duggan was the first boy from the school to medal with silver in the U11 sprint in 2008 while brothers Micheál and Finbar McFadden share the honour of being the first boys from the school to win individual gold with victory in the U9 sprint and 400m in 2010.
2015 was the club’s most successful year ever with 6 gold and 4 bronze medals, closely followed by 2010 with 5 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze. Grainne McDaid is the school’s most successful individual athlete in the City Sports with 2 golds in the U13 800m and bronze in the U11 400m.
The U13 Girls distance races are our most successful individual events with 5 victories in the U13 Girls 800m and 8 medals in the U11 Girls 400m.
The relays are our most successful event with 17 victories over the years and the U13 Girls are our most successful age group with ten Galway titles to their name together with four silver and six bronze medal performances.
Read on for more detail.
Age | Event | G | S | B | Total | Age | G | S | B | Total | |
U13 Girls | 100m | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | U13 Girls | 10 | 4 | 6 | 20 | |
U13 Boys | 100m | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | U13 Boys | 5 | 1 | 6 | 12 | |
U13 Girls | 800m | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 | U11 Girls | 6 | 4 | 4 | 14 | |
U13 Boys | 800m | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | U11 Boys | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
U13 Girls | 4x100m | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | U9 Girls | 7 | 4 | 5 | 16 | |
U13 Boys | 4x100m | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | U9 Boys | 4 | 4 | 8 | 16 | |
U11 Girls | 80m | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
U11 Boys | 80m | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Event | G | S | B | Total | |
U11 Girls | 400m | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 4x100m | 17 | 6 | 13 | 36 | |
U11 Boys | 400m | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 800m | 6 | 2 | 1 | 9 | |
U11 Girls | 4x100m | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 400m | 9 | 7 | 5 | 21 | |
U11 Boys | 4x100m | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 100m | 2 | 1 | 8 | 11 | |
U9 Girls | 60m | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 80m | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
U9 Boys | 60m | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 60m | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |
U9 Girls | 400m | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||||||
U9 Boys | 400m | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
U9 Girls | 4x100m | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 | ||||||
U9 Boys | 4x100m | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
Year | Age | Event | Pos | Athlete |
2005 | U13 Girls | 800m | 1 | Ashley McDonnell |
2005 | U13 Girls | 4x100m | 1 | Katie O’Donoghue Debi Kenny Orla McDaid Maireád McCan Maria McNamara |
2006 | U13 Girls | 800m | 2 | Ashley McDonnell |
2006 | U11 Girls | 80m | 3 | Mairead McCan |
2006 | U11 Girls | 400m | 2 | Sinead Gaffney |
2006 | U11 Girls | 400m | 3 | Orla McDaid |
2006 | U11 Girls | 4x100m | 1 | Orla McDaid Maria McNamara Sinead Gaffney Mairead McCan |
2008 | U13 Girls | 100m | 3 | Mairead McCan |
2008 | U13 Girls | 800m | 1 | Sinéad Gaffney |
2008 | U13 Girls | 4x100m | 1 | Maria McNamara Sinéad Gaffney Ailbhe Greaney Mairead McCan |
2008 | U11 Boys | 80m | 2 | Conor Duggan |
2008 | U11 Boys | 4x100m | 3 | Oisin Coppinger Conor O’Donoghue Cillian McDaid Conor Duggan |
2008 | U9 Girls | 60m | 2 | Michelle Duggan |
2009 | U13 Boys | 100m | 3 | Conor Duggan |
2009 | U13 Girls | 4x100m | 2 | Maeve O’Connor Ellen Fitzpatrick Gabrielle Tobin Sarah Molloy sub Tara Keady sub Emma Byrne |
2009 | U11 Girls | 400m | 3 | Grainne McDaid |
2009 | U11 Girls | 4x100m | 2 | Leanne Freaney Grainne McDaid Hannah Rabbitte Michelle Duggan sub Lisa Doran sub Andrea Tobin |
2009 | U9 Girls | 400m | 3 | Laura Cunningham |
2009 | U9 Girls | 4x100m | 1 | Anna Farrelly Aoife Walsh Aoife Raftery Laura Cunningham sub Lauren Gilligan sub Sandra Greaney sub Shauna Tobin |
2009 | U9 Boys | 4x100m | 3 | Cian Waters Conor Callaghan Micheál McFadden Alan Callanan sub Diarmuid McCartin sub Dean Callanan |
2010 | U13 Girls | 100m | 2 | Aisling Connolly |
2010 | U13 Boys | 100m | 3 | Conor O’Donoghue |
2010 | U13 Girls | 800m | 1 | Grainne McDaid |
2010 | U13 Girls | 4x100m | 1 | Hannah Rabbitte Emma Byrne Ellen Fitzpatrick Ashling Connolly Lisa Doran |
2010 | U13 Boys | 4x100m | 3 | Ian Connolly Cillian McDaid Eoin Lally Conor O’Donoghue |
2010 | U11 Girls | 4x100m | 1 | Aoife Walsh Emma Gaffney Katie Stephens Aisling Keady |
2010 | U9 Boys | 60m | 1 | Micheál McFadden |
2010 | U9 Boys | 400m | 1 | Finbar McFadden |
2010 | U9 Boys | 400m | 2 | Darren Lyons |
2010 | U9 Boys | 4x100m | 3 | Dylan Fowler Darren Lyons David McDonnell Micheál McFadden |
2011 | U13 Girls | 100m | 3 | Michelle Duggan |
2011 | U13 Girls | 800m | 1 | Grainne McDaid |
2011 | U13 Girls | 4x100m | 1 | Michelle Duggan Emma Gaffney Grainne McDaid Aisling Keady sub Erin Fitzpatrick |
2011 | U11 Boys | 4x100m | 1 | Diarmuid McCartin Cian Waters Conor Callaghan Micheál McFadden sub Dean Callanan sub Darren Lyons |
2011 | U9 Boys | 400m | 1 | Finbarr McFadden |
2011 | U9 Girls | 4x100m | 3 | Ailbhe Miskella Jane Trehy Sarah McCartin Mia Waters sub Emer Mulveen sub Zoe Gilligan |
2012 | U13 Boys | 100m | 3 | Cillian Dolan |
2012 | U13 Girls | 800m | 1 | Erin Fitzpatrick |
2012 | U13 Girls | 4x100m | 1 | Aoife Walshe Katie Stephens Mary Dunphy Erin Fitzpatrick Laura Cunningham |
2012 | U9 Girls | 400m | 3 | Rebekah Flynn |
2012 | U9 Boys | 400m | 2 | Kody McCann |
2012 | U9 Boys | 4x100m | 2 | Kody McCann Shaun Gilligan Gavin Kelly Pádraig Martyn Lukas Schukat |
2013 | U13 Girls | 100m | 3 | Laura Cunningham |
2013 | U13 Boys | 100m | 1 | Cian Waters |
2013 | U13 Girls | 4x100m | 3 | Anna Farrelly Roisin Hansbury Shauna Tobin Laura Cunningham Aoife Raftery sub Emma Urquhart |
2013 | U11 Girls | 400m | 2 | Ailbhe Miskella |
2013 | U11 Boys | 4x100m | 2 | Kody McCan Cian Garman Finbar McFadden Kevin Molloy Kyle Moorhead |
2013 | U9 Girls | 400m | 1 | Emily Miskella |
2013 | U9 Girls | 400m | 2 | Rebekah Flynn |
2013 | U9 Girls | 4x100m | 1 | Rebecca Lynch Molly Sullivan Emily Miskella Rebekah Flynn Alex Slamas |
2013 | U9 Boys | 4x100m | 3 | Lukas Schukat Liam Mulveen Robert Urquhart Kieran O’Connor Niall Cummins |
2014 | U11 Girls | 400m | 1 | Rebekah Flynn |
2014 | U9 Girls | 60m | 2 | Sarah Byrne |
2014 | U9 Girls | 400m | 2 | Jade Moorhead |
2014 | U9 Boys | 400m | 3 | Evan Hallinan |
2014 | U9 Girls | 4x100m | 1 | Erin Kelly Jade Moorhead Chloe Hallinan Sarah Byrne Madison Davy |
2014 | U9 Boys | 4x100m | 2 | Evan Hallinan Luke Flynn Ryan MacDonnell Evan Moran sub Kenneth O’Connor |
2015 | U13 Girls | 100m | 3 | Mia Waters |
2015 | U13 Boys | 100m | 3 | Shaun Gilligan |
2015 | U13 Boys | 800m | 1 | Kyle Moorhead |
2015 | U13 Girls | 4x100m | 3 | Penny Wells Aoife Kelly Edel Farrelly Mia Waters Emma Jane Moran sub Niamh Griffin sub Ailbhe Miskella sub Sarah Woods |
2015 | U11 Girls | 400m | 1 | Emily Miskella |
2015 | U11 Boys | 4x100m | 1 | Niall Cummins Lukas Schukat Kieran O’Connor Robert Urquhart sub Liam Mulveen sub Evan Hallinan |
2015 | U9 Girls | 400m | 1 | Chloe Hallinan |
2015 | U9 Boys | 400m | 1 | Evan Moran |
2015 | U9 Girls | 4x100m | 1 | Rachel O’Callaghan Grace Lynch Chloe Hallinan Grace Keaveney Ciara Gilligan sub Jenny Cloonan |
2015 | U9 Boys | 4x100m | 3 | Jamie Collins Adam Jordan Lucas Keane Evan Moran Cormac McFadden sub Roan Budge |
2016 | U13 Boys | 100m | 1 | Shaun Gilligan |
2016 | U13 Girls | 4x100m | 2 | Molly Sullivan Emma Jane Moran Edel Farrelly Aoife Kelly sub Niamh Griffin sub Emily Miskella sub Rebekah Flynn |
2016 | U13 Boys | 4x100m | 1 | Lukas Schukat Robert Urquhart Kieran O’Connor Shaun Gilligan Padraig Martyn Liam Mulveen sub Gavin Kelly sub Ross McGuinness |
2016 | U11 Girls | 400m | 1 | Jade Moorhead |
2016 | U11 Girls | 4x100m | 3 | Erin Kelly Jade Moorhead Grace Lynch Chloe Hallinan sub Rachel O’Callaghan sub Clodagh O’Meara |
2016 | U9 Girls | 60m | 3 | Ella Farrelly |
2016 | U9 Girls | 4x100m | 1 | Katie Slevin Isabel Schukat Mollie Gilligan Ella Farrelly sub Katelyn Walsh sub Sarah Creaven |
2016 | U9 Boys | 4x100m | 3 | Cian Farrell Darragh Kelly Keelan Moorhead Ben Moran sub Ethan Waters |
2017 | U13 Boys | 800m | 2 | Ross McGuinness |
2017 | U13 Boys | 800m | 3 | Darragh McCartin |
2017 | U13 Boys | 4x100m | 1 | Evan Hallinan Lukas Schukat Kieran O’Connor Robert Urquhart |
2017 | U11 Girls | 400m | 2 | Chloe Hallinan |
2017 | U11 Boys | 400m | 1 | Evan Moran |
2017 | U11 Girls | 4x100m | 1 | Grace Keaveney Ella Farrelly Grace Lynch Chloe Hallinan sub Aisling Whyte |
2017 | U9 Boys | 60m | 3 | Ben Moran |
2017 | U9 Girls | 4x100m | 3 | Lauren Morgan Abby Haugh Ciara O’Connor Kelly Hallinan sub Jessica McGlynn sub Kayleigh Rabbitte |
2017 | U9 Boys | 4x100m | 3 | Colm Doyle Jack Cahill Keelan Moorhead Ben Moran Eanna Morrisey sub Alex Ryan |