News reached us over the weekend of the passing of Patricia (Patsy) Cunningham, mother in law to both James Lundon & Mick Rice, two of the founding members of Athenry Athletics Club. E veryone at the club would like to express our sincerest condolences to both families on their loss. Reposing at...

The full set of results including both track and field results can be found here It was a great day for the club, with fine performances across the entire age range of competitors, a big well done to all those who competed, juvenile and senior. From the results it appears that Athenry AC brought...

Please find attached programme for Galway Indoors on Sunday. Best of luck to all our juvenile members competing. Please arrive an hour before your event is due to start.

It deserves an article of its own. It has come to our attention that Frank Burke is back on the road after a year's (injury) enforced absence, after competing in today's Resolution Run 5KM in a very satisfying time of 20:07. A little birdie has told us that his last race was last year's Tuam 8KM...

Day 1 is here @ Loughrea (Sunday, 5 October). Day 2 is here @ Tuam (Sunday, 12 Cctober). Congrats to all athletes who competed (successfully or otherwise) but also to both clubs who hosted days, each of which was a hugh success in its own right. Finaly, to the people who took the entries, and...

Well done to all the Athenry AC athletes running for various schools today - just shows how important regular training is! Also, well done to all Athenry AC athletes who helped make these semi-finals a huge success. Roll on the finals next Tuesday at the same time. Some great finals are in prospect...

Athenry AC were the proud winners of the Brendan Gavin Memorial Shield at the Claregalway 10KM last weekend. The shield has been fought for since 2003 and was presented by Brendan's wife Bridie, to James Lundon. It is presented to the club who has most representatives at the race each year. The...

Sinéad Tuohy was in action today at the GloHealth Junior and U23 Championships held in CIT. Sinéad tied for silver in the U23 High Jump with Emily Rogers (St Peters) with a jump of 1.60m. Gold was taken by Craughwells Catriona Farrell who jumped 1.65. Congratulations Sinéad, and all the best for the...

All Ireland Team events June 21 Tullamore. Athenry had 5 athletes travel and Calum Healy and Adam Molloy placed 3rd in 60m sprint Calum also recorded the fasted time in Ireland 9.16. Fearghus Deeley and Adam Molloy competed in the long jump and it wasnt Fearghus day and he broke all jumps Adam...

See here! Sprinter gets amongst the medals at graduation OLYMPIC sprinter Paul Hession may have missed out on a medal at the last games, but he took home gold in Galway yesterday. The Athenry athlete was awarded a bachelor of medicine, surgery and obstetrics degree at NUI, Galway. To top off his...

** Results attached courtesy of Amanda Hynes ** Athenry juvenile athletes were well to the fore in the 2014 Western Championships held on a lovely warm afternoon on 14th June at Sligo IT. Pride of place goes to Evan Quirke who took gold in both the U18 High Jump and Long Jump. Brandon Lee won gold...

Please find attached schedule of events for Connachts June 14 in Sligo. Please arrive an hour before your event is du to start

A big well done to our juvenile athletes that travelled to Sligo on Saturday June 7 for Connachts. All the athletes did very well in all their chosen events. In the pairs events the following go on to represent Athenry in the All Irelands on June 21 in Tullamore, sprint Calum Healy and Adam Molloy...

Athenry AC athlete Assumpta Feeney has just been crowned World Powerlifting Champion for the Squat. On Sunday morning Assumpta once again triumphed in the Deadlift, with a lift of 155Kg, which for those of you still working in imperial, is over 24 stone. Assumpta Feeney, Athenry AC athlete and now...

Please find attached timetable for Saturday May 24.

Forget bearded ladies and no Irish entry in the Eurovision final over the weekend, Athenry AC were making a somewhat more successful competetive attempt at the World Drug Free Powerlifting Federation European Championship in Belfast. Assumpta Feeney yet again powered her way to top spot in her...

Please find attached provisional results from Day 1 (Saturday 3 May). Well done to all our juvenile athletes! Also a full set of podium images from the day are here. See www.galwayathletics.com for the final set of results etc.

Congratulations to both Sebastian & Aisling on their marraige yesterday. All at the club wish you years of happiness in the future.

Just a small recap of recent events across the country & a bit further afield. It was a successful couple of weeks in the states for our members as our previous Chairperson, Deirdre Hassett, completed the Boston Marathon in a brilliant time of 3.14.21. On an emotional day where an expanded field of...

Please find attached provisional timetable for Saturday May 3 for Counties. Please note order of events will stay the same but times may change slightly depending on numbers. Best of luck to all our young athletes taking part.

It is with great regret that we hear that the great old athlete, Tommy Madden, has passed on to his eternal reward. The arrangement are as follows from RIP.ie: The death has occurred of Tommy MADDEN Derrydonnell, Oranmore, Galway At University Hospital Galway. Formerly of Derrydonnell Athletics Club...

Peter Delmer [co-founder of Athenry AC (Senior)] got married to the lovely Dympna last Friday! Long life and much happiness to both.

It was a wonderful weekend (21-22 March) for our Juvenile athletes at the All Ireland Indoors in Athlone. Brandon Lee took the gold medal in the u14 hurdles and also bronze in the 800m. Lydia Doyle u15 took silver in both the 60m sprint and hurdles. All of our hurdlers made it to the finals u13...

Please find attached the results from the Connaught Indoors Competition that were held March 1 and 2 in Athlone. We wish all the Athletes that have qualified for the All Irelands on March 22 and 23 the very best of luck.

Athenry Juvenile AC Athletes had a very successful outing last weekend at the Connacht Indoor Championships 2014 held at Athlone International Arena. We had thirty juveniles competing across a range of age groups and they managed to bring home 18 medals betweeen them, including nine gold medals so...