Paul Hession led by example over the weekend at the European Team Championships in Banksa Bystrica, Slovakia. Paul ran an excellent 20:56 to secure full points for the Irish team in his main event, the 200m. His co-captain Derval O'Rourke also produced some good form to win her 100m Hurdles race...

One of Diana's fans (there are many) rang me over the weekend to let me know the fantastic news that she had won the Gobi Desert March adventure race. Diana had led the event from the gun but was always vulnerable to a late charge by any of her competitors in this grueling event. Although she's an...

Highlights of the All-Ireland Track and Field Schools Championships will be on Setanta Ireland on June 23 24 and 25, with commentary from Will Downing. Most track races and a good selection of the field events will be shown, with a good few Galway athletes featured. Set yer recorders now !

I was very sorry to miss my 'home' race on Friday evening last. Personally I was very gratified that a number of clubmates of mine as well as Bernie Kelly of GCH made the long journey down to enjoy a real country road race and also to remember that great road running stalwart - and Leeds United fan...

Paul Hession continued his early season in the Ostrava 'Golden Spike' Meeting last night. Paul won his preferred even the 200m and placed 3rd in the 'B' 100m race for good measure. Report on the AAI Site here... http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?p=7780 Full Race Results:-

The 21st of June, the summer solstice has been a significant date in the calendar for thousands of years. It’s a time to rejoice and celebrate, when the tilt of the earth’s axis causes the sun's position in the sky to reach its southernmost extreme. And now it’s also the time to lace up the runners...

The Galway Track & Field Series for 2009 got underway on Thursday June 4th in Dangan with a couple of cloise fought races on the track and a high quality field in the shot putt. Full results attached. Numbers were down on previous editions of this event which led to a more muted atmosphere and...

News reaches us that Galway based runner Diana Hogan-Murphy is leading the women's division in the early stages of the Gobi Desert March Adventure Race. Diana recently told us of her adventures running the Comrades Ultramarathon on this site at (http://www.athenryac.com/diana-comrades-her-blood) You...

Paul Hession ran the 100M (2nd in 10.55) and 200M (1st in 20.73) at Enea on Wednesday evening: http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/hession-grabs-second-in-enea-for-top-spot-1769455.html http://www.european-athletics.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7393&Itemid=2 Paull will also...

Athenry juvenile athletic club had a very successful day in the first of the three days of Connacht track and field finals last weekend in Athlone. It was the turn of the under 9, 10, 11s, in this age group athletes have to compete in pairs, the best 3 pairs in each event at county level qualified...

Have you ever dreamed of pounding the streets of New York in the autumn? Would you love to take your place at the starting line of one of the most famous and prestigious marathons in the world. Well you can realise that ambition in 2009 if you partner with the Irish Cancer Society. Kevin Delaney of...

Any & all updates are very much appreciated... James. ++ HISTORY F.B. Dineen: The Irish Athletic Record. (1906). Thomas F. O’Sullivan: The Story of the Gaelic Athletic Association. (1916). T.H. Nally: The Aonac Tailteann and the TailTeann Games: their origin, history and ancient associations. (1922)...

A copy of an e-mail that reached my Inbox this morning: Hi there, You have used the above e-mail address previously to register for the Streets Of Galway road race. As such, we in GCH (Galway City Harriers) are taking this opportunity to contact you with details of this year's event and hope that...

Thanks to Bernie Kelly, GCH for following up and obtaining a full result from the recent Roundstone 5M Road Race... SRC IRELAND RACE 24th MAY 2009 Position Name Time 1 Ian Egan 29.14 2 Graham Jones 29.33 3 John Devlin 30.20 4 Mark Breen 31.17 5 Damien Ridge 32.39 6 Colman Greene 32.54 7 Ian Haigh 33...

Irish Examiner article: http://www.examiner.ie/sport/turin-test-set-to-get-hessions-season-up-and-running-93348.html Primo Nebiolo Memorial Meeting - 4th June 2009 http://www.memorialprimonebiolo.org/ENG/stadio.aspx 100M heat - 4th in 10.52 -0.8M: http://www.memorialprimonebiolo.org/ENG...

Oughterard 10KM - The Mick Molloy Classic - announced... Saturday July 18th 2009 at 5pm, kids fun run at 4pm. Last night saw the launch of yet another race to add to the increasingly crowded local calendar. But this race isn't exactly new, it is making a long overdue return. With the popularity of...

It's hard to believe it but it's all over for another year. Last night saw the final race in the Galway 5km Series for 2009 being run in warm summer sunshine around the parkland of Dangan. Great credit has to go to the members of the Galway City Harriers Club who hosted the evening and who put on a...

There will no juvenile training on the 29th of May at the soccer pitch due to the heavily planned athletic weekend ahead. Training will resume as normal next week. We would like to wish good luck to all our competitors taking part in the schools athletics in Tullamore and also all those competing in...

If this isn't enough to make you jealous, I don't know what will. Local photographer, runner and participant in the Galway 5km series Aonghas McMahon has emailed from sunny Mexico with the following greetings: Hi Guys, Greetings from Mexico. Deserted bars and beaches, so cool. I was gutted to miss...

*** Slight Change in Starting Point - Instead of gathering at the carpark at the Village Inn in Kilchreest people should instead meet at Castledaly Church which is closeby - just to continue through the village of Kilchreest for another three miles 'til you see a church on left-hand side and that is...

Provisional results from the Loughrea 5km now available at http://www.athleticsloughrea.com/node/123 Another week and another great 5km race to enjoy. As someone said to me in Loughrea last night, "We don't realise how 'spoilt' road runners are in Galway". It certainly was a great night for running...

Sorry about the picture...it's the best I could do on a Tuesday. As we all know anyone who runs or walks five or more of the Galway 5km Series will qualify for the series souvenir shirt. Well, James Lundon has trawled through the various sets of results and has come up with a list that should...

What a fantastic evening for a run in Claregalway. Another field in excess of 400 runners and walkers turned out in Claregalway last evening to enjoy the beautiful weather and take on the challenge of covering 5km as fast as they could manage. The Claregalway route had been tweaked slightly from...

Word reaches us that Gary Doherty (almost) took Inishbofin by storm last Saturday when he finished in second place in the Croi Inishboffin Half Marathon. He reportedly completed the course in 1:33. I haven't been able to round up full results yet and so I don't yet know who beat our Gary to the line...

Congrats to all involved in the recent Kilconieron (not to be confused with Kilcornan) 5M road race. Niall Callanan and Patrick Forde recently presented the proceeds to Bóthar's Conor O'Donoghue. The following letter was received by the lads from Bóthar in acknowledgement of their group's...