Having had some time to recover from his experiences at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Athenry AC’s Paul Hession gets back into the thick of world-class action at tonight’s Golden League meeting in Brussels. Tonight’s meeting, the Memorial Van Damme, will be televised on Setanta Sports...

It's that time of the year again and with the last of the summer's road races, thoughts turn to cross country running and the indoor races to be run during the autumn and winter. Many of the dates and venues have now been set for these events and are given below as a single list. When I have a...

(Thanks to Tom Hunt for these summary results) Top Ten M/W Ballina 10k Mayo AC Open Road Race League 2007 Race 4 Men 1 Declan Fahy U/A 32.35 2 John Byrne Mayo AC 32.44 3 Paddy Murray Mayo AC 33.15 o40 4 Martin Conroy Sligo AC 33.37 5 Robert Malseed Clonliffe H 33.49 6 Anthony Devaney Mayo AC 35.22 7...

In July last year Athenry AC undertook one of its biggest ever projects in organising the High5 Galway Twilight Track and Field Meet. Entries were accepted from athletes of all standards and from many parts. Some of the best British athletes around mixed on the day with the most talented runners...

With so many other races and activities going on at the moment we neglected to post news on Galway man Andy Talbot’s progress in Italy at the World Masters Athletics Stadia Championships in Italy. A link to the results is given below and shows that Andy finished in 35th position of 68 runners in his...

(Many thanks to James Sexton for providing results and pictures) Killimor Co Galway 4 Mile Road Race 09-09-07 Results. 1. Gerry Ryan Galway City Harriers 19 : 45 2. Jason Broderick Craughwell 21 : 08 3. Martin Corcoran Craughwell 21 : 16 4. David Quinn Ennis Track 21 : 35 5.` Mark Davis Craughwell...

St Finbarr's Athletic Club MIZUNO/CORK HALF-MARATHON Sunday 9 September 2007. 11:00am Place Time Name Team Race Age Category min/mile 1 1:11:32 SOSNOWSKI, Wieslaw Eagle AC M 05:27.5 145 1 2 1:12:06 ZAKIS, Raivis West Waterford AC M 05:30.1 295 2 3 1:12:52 MERRITT, Colin Togher AC M35 05:33.6 167 3 4...

I wrote this report last June, but never posted it. Thought I'd get it up here for posterity now. Will be recruiting team mates for next year ... you have been warned. Peter +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Never write down a goal … it might come true. I thought about that as I...

The ever-popular four mile road race in Killimor, Co.Galway has been fixed for Sunday the 9th of September at 1:30pm. This is one of the most popular fixures on the Galway racing calendar each year and regularly attracts a strong field of runners from outside the county. Organisers Thomas and Mary...

The highly popular Mayo Open Road League continues this Sunday with race four in Ballina when Ballina AC will host their annual 10k road race at 3:00pm on that day. Recently crowned M55 Half-Marathon Champion of Ireland Tom Hunt of Mayo AC has been in touch with the individual standings after the...

The 2007 Athenry contingent that set out for Ballybofey were realistic in their outlook this year. After the high point of collecting Senior Men’s Team Bronze at the same event last year, this assault on the National Half Marathon Championship was certainly more in hope than in expectation. A team...

Many thanks to Tom Kilgarriff for a copy of the full results, posted in four different formats below. Adrian Fitzmaurice of Clare River Harriers has provided us with a fine selection of photographs from the recent Claregalway 10k road race, including many photographs of people as they crossed the...

Athenry based Predator Triathlon Club will be hosting the first ever Loughrea Triathlon Festival on Saturday and Sunday the 22nd and 23rd of September next. This is a huge undertaking for a recently established club and a considerable logistical challenge. Preparations have been in full swing for...

Galway masters athlete Andy Talbot of Clare River Harriers will travel to San Giovani in Marignano, Italy this weekend for the World Masters Athletics Stadia Championships. Andy will take place his place on the Irish team for the 8km cross country event next Tuesday the 4th of September and joins a...

Athenry's Paul Hession made his exit from the World Athletics Championships this afternoon at the semi-final stage finishing sixth in his semi-final race. Paul had already fulfilled his stated ambition of making the semi-final of this event and so he must return home satisfied to some extent. Given...

Athenry AC's Paul Hession won his quarter final race today at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka to advance to the semi final of his event tomorrow. The lineup for Paul's race is given below. The first four finishers in this race will qualify for the final later the same day. The race is due...

Paul Hession will take his place in the quarter final of the world championship 200m today at 12:34 Irish Time. Good Luck Paul. Start List below.

Paul Hession's World Athletics adventure starts in the early hours of Tuesday morning Irish time. Paul goes in heat 5 of 6 which is scheduled for 11:42am Osaka time which is 03:42am Irish time. The first four in each heat will progress to the next round automatically with eight 'fastest losers'...

Athenry Men’s and Women’s teams Take Silver In County 10k Champs While it came as little surprise, on current form, that GCH’s Gerry Ryan claimed the County Galway 10k title at the Claregalway 10k this weekend, there was a surprise winner of the women’s race when recent Athenry AC recruit Ann Carter...

If you’ve ever seen the film Caddyshack you’ll know that a ‘looper’ is another term for a golf caddy, presumably because they walk endless loops of the course transporting golf clubs for their patrons. If you’ve never seen Caddyshack then you really should. Since seeing that movie I’ve often thought...

Clare River Harriers will be hosting their annual 10k road race this Saturday the 25th of August. This race also doubles as the County Galway 10k Championships. Athenry men's teams claimed silver medals in this championship in 2005 and 2006 and we’d love to go one better this year. Brian O’Connor...

Loughrea Athletic Club today announced details of it's ever popular autumn road race, which takes place this year on Saturday the 29th of September at 5:00pm. There will be prizes as follows; 1st 6 senior men 1st 6 senior women 1st three veteran men O/40, O/45, O/50, O55, O/60 1st three veteran...

The very first Connemara Breakfast Run in aid of juvenile athletics in County Galway took place last Saturday. Although the weather had been poor earlier in the morning by the time it was time to run conditions were near perfect in the Inagh Valley. Runners from all of the Galway clubs as well as...

Athenry's own Paul Hession travels to Osaka this week to compete in the World Athletics Championships. For a club like Athenry AC to have a member travelling to such a prestigious championships is a great, great honour and we're all so pleased that Paul has earned this opportunity for himself. Paul...

The AAI/Woodie’s DIY Masters Track & Field Championships took place last Saturday and Loughrea AC’s Mary Barrett had a fantastic day of competition, claiming gold medals in no fewer than four competitions and silver in yet another. In the javelin competition Mary threw 22.79m for first place in her...