Fellow Comrades, As we head for the Ballycotton 10 and the Connemara International Marathon our latest club project is shaping up nicely. Between January and February, 12 Athenry AC members have attended 6 different events across the country. This is a great start to 2006 for the club as the...

Four Irish Ultramarathoners put up a tenacious performance in Taiwan over the weekend. The team representing Ireland at the event included Galway's own Richard Donovan as well as Tony Mangan, Martin Rea and Eoin Keith. All four runners took part in the IAU (International Association of Ultrarunners)...

Photo by Alan Cowzer (www.cowzer.com/athletics) Athenry AC's Paul McNamara ran superbly well in the National Inter Clubs Cross Country Championships in Santry last Saturday to finish in fourth place in the men's senior event. Paul, who's training has been badly hampered in the early part of this...

Dunleer AC have organised a charity run to increase the awareness of the Adult Sudden Death Syndrome. The run will start this Saturday 25th Feb at about 8.45am from the University Galway Regional Hospital. The athletes will run a marathon a day finishing up at the Mater Hospital in Dublin. If...

Tracy O'Mahoney who runs the 'Hot Yoga' Studio in Galway has extended an offer to all Athenry AC members to take part in her classes in Galway. Very frequently runners have difficulty with flexibility and Tracy's classes may be just the ticket for loosening up before your next Marathon or as part of...

James Corbett and Dave Dunne are organising a one mile race Ballybrit Racecourse on Sunday 12th March at 11am. One week after Ballycotton and two weeks before Connemara. Race is open to everybody. Entry fee will be 2 or 3 euro on the day and there'll be a few spot prizes. If your interested in...

The final list of entrants has just been published by the organisers of the 2006 Ballycotton 10 Mile Road Race on Sunday the 5th of March next. The final list reveals the largest ever entry from Athenry AC with at least eleven confirmed entrants. These are; Alan Burke Peter Delmer, David Dunne...

A small group of members visited the Connemara Marathon course on Saturday last, 11th Feb, for a preview of what Ray has in store for us at the end of March. The weather co-operated as much as it ever does in that part of the world and so we we mostly dry but a little rained upon and although the...

By James Sexton The Clare Athletics Association Senior Cross Country and Juvenile “B” championships for U/9 to U/15’s were held on the lands of the O’Donnell Family Tulla and hosted by Tulla Athletic Club in beautiful weather conditions and a massive turnout of athletes and spectators were treated...

Bantry Bay will be the setting for the inaugural “Bay Run”, a 13.1 mile Half Marathon between Glengarriff and Bantry to be held on the May Bank Sunday, April 30th, 2006. Proceeds from the race will benefit Co-Action in West Cork. The event, which includes both running and walking sections, will see...

The Club’s AGM took place last night the 25th of January in the Western Hotel on Prospect Hill in Galway at 8:00pm. There was a huge attendance by all previous standards with around twenty-five people in attendance. It really was great to see so many familiar, and mostly friendly, faces looking...

Beleek, Ballina, Sat 21st Jan 2005 Senior/Masters Men 10,000m Individual 1 247 John Byrne Mayo AC 2 435 Damien McSharry Sligo AC * 464 Robert Malseed Clonliffe Harriers 3 451 Martin Corcoran Loughrea AC 4 441 Brian Kilgannon Sligo AC 5 444 Michael O'Connell Sligo AC 6 240 Alan Kelly Sligo AC 7 460...

The programme of events and other details of the upcoming Connaught Regional Indoor Track and Field Championships have now been released. Entry forms (standard & relay) for the championships, a timetable of events and a list of rules and regulations are attached to this article and can be downloaded...

It is with sadness that we have been told that the death has taken place of well known Kilmurry Ibrickane/North Clare athlete Dermot Power, Erribul Kildysart after a short illness. He died at 2. 10am on the morning of 18/1/06 in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin. Brother of Seamus Power Irish Intenational...

A short while ago I finished reading Paul Reese's fine book, "Ten Million Steps: The Incredible Journey of Paul Reese, Who Ran Across America--A Marathon a Day for 124 Days--At Age 73", (High Country Books, ISBN: 1567960146). This hugely impressive book details one of the most impressive...

Some Photos from this race available here Place Number Finish Time Name Sex Category Club Team 1 65 26.26 Jason Broderick M Sen Loughrea Loughrea 2 118 26.4 Ian Egan M Sen GCH GCH 3 104 27.08 Martin Corcoran M Sen Loughrea Loughrea 4 142 27.27 Conor Moloney M Sen N/A N/A 5 129 27.38 Mark Davis M Sen...

Following on from a discussion at this year's Galway County Board AGM it has been proposed to hold a meeting of senior runners and other athletes, race organisers and other interested parties in the County. This meeting will take place on Thursday the 9th of February next at 8:30pm (sharp!!) in the...

Photo Courtesy of Alan Cowzer (http://www.cowzer.com/athletics/) GCH Running star Gary Thornton produced another fantastic performance whilst rereresenting Ireland in the Belfast International UK Cross Challenge at Stormont on Saturday last. Competing in the senior men's race Gary finished hot on...

The Galway Board of the AAI organised a well attended and successful County Indoor Championships last Saturday the 6th of January. Events ranged accross the age groups from U12 to senior athletes. Although full results are not to hand yet a few events are noteworthy. In the 3,000m Loughrea's Jason...

The booklet we distributed on race day can be downloaded here.

The Connaught Masters, Junior & Senior cross-country championship, which had been scheduled for the 8th January in Ballina, has been moved to 21st January at the same venue. The indoor action next weekend, for Galway based athletes both young and old, will be at the indoor arena in Nenagh, Co...

Loughrea's Jason Broderick made further progress in confirming his great athletic potential in winning the Tuam 8k Road Race yesterday. Jason posted a fine time of 26:26 around an admitedly fast town-based course. GCH were ably represented at the front of the race on the day by Ian Egan. Ian, who...

Don't forget the closing date for receipt of Ballycotton 10' entries is Wednesday Jan 11th. You can get a form at http://www.ballycottonrunning.com/ Always great to have a large club entry for this one. We usually make a weekend of it.

Category PositionNum Name Club Time Senior Men 1st 443 Gary Thornton GCH 30:34 Senior Men 2nd 444 Paul McNamara Athenry AC 30:53 Senior Men 3rd 606 Michael O'Connor GCH 31:45 Senior Men 4th 666 Jason Fahy Olympic Harriers 33:34 Senior Men 5th 553 Jason Broderick Loughrea AC 33:36 Men's Junior 1st...

Official Results of the 2005 Proactive.ie Fields of Athenry 10KM Road Race Position Number Time Name Club Category 1 443 30:34 Gary Thornton GCH M 2 444 30:53 Paul McNamara Athenry AC M 3 606 31:45 Michael O'Connor GCH M 4 541 33:10 Donnacha O'Mahony East Cork AC M40 5 666 33:34 Jason Fahy Olympic...