The under 9, 10 and 11 national finals were held last weekend in Templemore. Athletes compete in pairs, congratulations to the14 pairs and 4 relay teams from Athenry qualified for the finals. Athenry athletes won 2 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 1 relay gold. The gold medal winners were Shea...

The inaugural Portumna Marathon, 50km & 100km races took place on last Saturday the 26th June on closed roads around the beautiful Portumna Forest Park. All three races were awarded AAI permits and were adjudged by all taking part to be a tremendous success. A number of Athenry AC members took part...

A strong team of Athenry women took part in the Galway Women's Mini-Marathon road race at the weekend, and Eimear Butler led the entire field home in some style. The race took place around Salthill and by the time the runners made their way back to the finishing line Eimear was well clear of...

The Maroon and White were well to the fore in beautiful Annaghdown last night with both the men and women making their mark at the top of their respective fields. There was a fine turnout from the club with twenty-seven Athenry AC athletes making the journey to the lakeside venue for Paul Fallon's...

The under 9,10 and 11 competitions are run in pairs with the pair with the best joint score wins. The under 12 competitions are individual competitions. Overall 22 pairs from Athenry AC qualified for Connacht’s unfortunately due to other commitments and holidays not all were able to take part. In...

This time the Sunday Business Post, whose excellent web site carries the following article: http://www.sbpost.ie/agenda/a-sporting-chance-49779.html

No, not Michael Douglas and Karl Malden ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Streets_of_San_Francisco) but Conor Dolan and his adventures in the _Plate to Plate 5KM_ ran earlier this week. Sixth in a time of 17:24. He was every so slightly disappointed with the time but as he says in his short report...

More news of Miriam Wall and her burgeoning Triathlon career, with a second place in Salthill last weekend at the COPE event. Full results here: http://www.copegalwaytriathlon.com/sites/files/copetri/COPE_Tri_2010_Results_0.pdf The lady is alsointerviewed in the current TRI magazine, which can be...

There are two top-quality 10KMs this weekend in Galway! Saturday evening sees the first annual Milltown "Run for Ollie" 10KM. The event organisers are pulling out all the stops to put on a top-class event. It is fully AAI Permitted and the course is Jones Countered certified. I've also been told...

Works has reached us that Aoife Callan (Athenry AC) was second woman home up in the Longford 10 yesterday. 72:29. I have a small idea of the work this woman is doing and have no doubt that she will do very well the further the distance she races. Well done! The image is of her receiving her prize...

http://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2010/0610/hessionp.html Paul was 3rd in Rome in 20.60 in the 200M on Wednesday evening in the first Diamond League meet of the year! Other recent articles that also mention Paul include: http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/race-walking-personal-bests-for...

The juvenile county T&F relay finals were held recently in Dangan. This competition is very important as relays can only qualifier for the All Ireland from the county finals. Seven relay teams represented Athenry AC and all seven qualified for the All Ireland finals, which was a marvellous...

Congratulations to Maria Cooney of Athenry AC and Loughrea VS who won the Junior Schools long jump last weekend in Tullamore. She jumped 5.44m, a new PB by over 20 cm I'm told! P.S. Maria's not a bad Camogie player either!

From Peter Lyons earlier this week: Athenry came away from last weekend's County Finals of the Galway Community Games with a total of 13 medals made up of 8 Gold, two Silver and three Bronze. Girls Under 8 80M 1st Sinead Lyons Boys Under 8 80M 2nd Shane Broderick Girls Under 10 200M 1st Derbhla...

Word has reached the newsdesk of AthenryAC.com that clubman Paul McNamara was second in the Cork City Marathon this afternoon in 2:30:15 while fellow clubmate Jane-Ann Healy was fourth woman home in 3:04:16 (a PB by some 13 minutes !!!!). Congratulations to both on their achievements. Mick Rice and...

See attached PDF and XLS taken straight from www.RedTagTiming.com and John Cunniffe. A wrap-up communication will follow in due course!

The best of luck to all athletes representating the Athenry area in this weekend's county T&F finals in Ballinderreen. See http://www.communitygames.ie/index.php/galway for more details about Community Games in Galway. The progamme of events (1.25MB) for this weekend is attached.

Miriam Wall's fantastic vein of form continued with her third place finish last weekend in the Tri3-Galway Triathlon. See here for a full set of results and some great action shots: http://www.irishtriathlon.com/index.php/2010/05/tri3-galway-triathlon/ I hope those 5KMs during the week contributed...

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2010/0529/1224271391055.html Paul and Olive (Loughnane) are full steam ahead while Eileen O’Keeffe sadly misses out due to injury again.

Who'd a thunk it? We're four weeks into the Galway 5km series now and there's been a lot of running done. Our long sequence of dry races is history, but the series has been more successful than ever before with larger numbers completing each race than in any other year. Although this series of races...

Not to be out-done by his multi-marathoning brother, young Johnny O'Connor, of this parish, was bombing around 'Bofin at the weekend and was first past the finish line in their annual half marathon. It's a welcome return to form for Mr.O'Connor who seems intent on proving that quality distance...

Paul Hession got his outdoor season underway yesterday with two great runs in the Powerade Great City Games in Manchester. The races took place outdoor on a specially constructed 4-lane track along Deansgate in central Manchester. Although Paul had his eyes on a place in the 150m race he eventually...

Athenry's Paul Hession opens his season on Sunday with a road race in Manchester. Not the Great Manchester Run, but the Great City Games which take place later that day on a specially constructed track in Manchester. Although listed to compete in the 100m, sources close to Athenry AC believe he will...

No comment possible so I'll leave ye with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wDFEqJSmJ0

See: http://www.craughwellac.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=647&Itemid=78 For a full list of results from last Saturday's U9 to U19 Galway T&F. There are a goodly number of Athenry AC successes therein. The results PDF is also attached here for completeness!