Athenry Juvenile Athletics win All Ireland Medals at Indoor National Championship Athenry Juveniles athletes travelled to the All Ireland Indoor Track and Field Championship which was held last weekend in the new international indoor athletics arena at Athlone IT. This was a very high standard event...

Athenry Juvenile AC athletes had a great day out recently at the wonderful new indoor athletics arena at Athlone IT where Athenry athletes competed with the very best juvenile athletes in Connacht and came home with a very impressive total of 18 medals – 4 gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze. In addition we...

It must be a great feeling to see a young athlete you've coached over many years make a breakthrough at national level. Dermot McNamara of Athenry AC has seen a few and his latest is Sinéad Tuohy who recently won a silver medal in the All-Ireland Under 23 High Jump competition, held in the new...

Congratulations to Athenry Juvenile athletes who were selected to run for their county today in the beautiful surroundings of Charleville Estate, Tullamore in the national cross country relay championship on today Sunday (24 February 2013). On the Galway Girls U12 team, we had Sarah Gilhooley...

Hi Folks Connacht Indoors are to be held in the brilliant new indoor venue at Athlone IT on Sunday 3rd March. We may be able to organise a training session at the venue possibly next week. Sinead will send a text around if it is going to happen. The venue is fast making a reputation as a very fast...

Congratulations and thanks to Deirdre Hassett and Ruthann Sheehan for accepting the posts of Chairperson and Secretary of the club at the recent AGM. This is a real passing of the torch with neither Mick Rice nor Iain Shaw holding one of these rolesin the club after so many years. Many thanks to...

*** Provisional results now added - thanks to Mike Tobin *** Athenry Juveniles athletes had a super day recently at the Galway Indoor Track and Field Championship 2013 in Nenagh. Many of our young athletes had been training very hard over the winter months turning up for training in all weathers and...

Well done to all our juvenile athletes who participated in Galway Indoor Track and Field Championship in Nenagh yesterday. There were brilliant performances in both individual and team competitions and we must have brought home a bucketful of medals between everyone. Some photos of the day have been...

Please find attached provisional programme for Nenagh for Saturday. This was received last week so I would advise that you arrive at least one hour before your event is due to start, I have not received anything since. Best of luck to all taking part.

Galway Indoor Track & Field event will take place in Nenagh on 2nd February 2013. Sinead Healy is organising juvenile entries so any juvenile athletes wishing to enter please get in contact with Sinead as soon as possible.

The Annual General Meeting of Athenry AC will be held in the Purple Lounge at Raheen Woods Hotel on Friday 25 th January at 8pm. This year we will need to appoint a new secretary as Iain Shaw's 5 year stretch has now come to an end and it is time for some new blood in the position. If anyone has any...

Please note change of training times for Juveniles. Monday night children born 2004 and older Vocational school gym 8 to 9. Wednesday night raheen pitch 7 to 8. Thursday night Vocational School Gym High Jump 7 to 8 for children born 2002 all older children 8 to 9 high jump and hurdles. Friday night...

Ultra running might be a minority sport but it's fast gaining a higher profile due to the great performances by some Athenry AC athletes, most recently Ruthann Sheehan. Ruthann hails from Cork and is the West Cork Sports Star of the Year. Congratulations Ruthann! It certainly can't be easy to take...

First seen in last week's Galway Independent and here. Fair play!

Stephen Glennon of the The Connacht Tribune did a lovely profile of Ruthann back in late November. Well worth re-printing here - see attachment (74KMB)!

Congrats to Maria Hehir and the others in the club who made the recent Fit4Life 5KM in Newcastle suc a bit success! E1250 was the final figure donated to Western Alzheimers!

There is a juvenile fun run St Stephens Day before the 10k. Registration in the car park by the arch from 9.45 €5 per child. Race starts 10.15 sharp medals for all participants. See you all there. Any queries contact Sinead 0876330527.

Entry to this years race is now closed. Please note there are absolutely NO ENTRIES on the day, please do not turn up without a valid entry as we will not be able to accomodate you into this years race

A little belated on the update front but here's a list of the 'special' awards for those from the club who are gifted in other areas apart from speed. The awards were presented at the club party...so if your name is here but you didn't make it to the party, your gift has been thoughtfully recycled...

I let the 10th anniversary of the formation of the senior section of Athenry AC go, much to my chagrin due to work and other commitments, without making mention of it specifically here. This little article may redress that balance a little bit! Mick Rice, Peter Delmer and myself had been knocking...

All results from the recent (October!) juvenile and adult Cross County championships are stored on here. Congratulations to all Galway athletes, young and some not so young any more, who competed, many of whom won medals etc.

Athletics in Athenry back in Internet dark ages of late 1995: http://homepage.eircom.net/~oreganathenry/oreganathenry/athenryjournal/alethicsinathenryparish.html Athletics in Athenry Parish - 1995 - D. McNamara The sport of athletics is very much a minority sport in Ireland today and Athenry is no...

Best of luck to all our juvenile athletes competing next weekend in Adamstown, Co Wexford at the national novice and uneven age cross country championships. Lots of useful information on the venue and arrangements for next sunday can be found at the following link http://www.wexfordathletics.com...

Congratulations to Peter Lyons and all the various others involved in Athenry Commnunity Games on the number of awards they've picked up recently. I've scabbed the following from their excellent Facebook page here: Athenry Community Games win Mayor’s Award Athenry Community Games has won a coveted...