See the commemorative newsletter to celebrate the 20th running of the Fields of Athenry 10k, Winter 2021. It's in PDF format.

Athenry Athletics Club currently does not have a physical base to call its home, although with the current development this will hopefully change very soon. Therefore in order to comply with the Children First Act 2015 in displaying and making available the Child Safeguarding Statement, this...

Please see the attached PDF of the Winter 2019 newsletter for the Athenry running club.

Photos at https://www.flickr.com/photos/pmagnier/albums/72157711709500833

47 from Athenry AC ran at the Dublin Marathon in 2019. An Excel file of the results is attached.

Short newsletter published in June 2019 with lots of photos, interviews, and a "Blast from the Past". See attached PDF.

The curtain fell on a long juvenile campaign this weekend with the third day of the National Juvenile Track and Field in Tullamore. Athenry AC had just three competitors this weekend and all came away with massive smiles and even bigger PB's Calum Healy: Calum has had a fair run of misfortune over...

Athenry AC took a small team to Day 1 and 2 of the National Juvenile Championships and came away with a couple of medals. On the track, Calum Healy (U15), Liam Shaw (U14) and Aoibhe Deely (U17) went over the short hurdles with both Calum and Aoibhe progressing to the final. Aoibhe put in a superb...

Congratulations to Sean Freeney on winning performance of the year for 2017. Very well deserved. Image of him collecting his prize from James Lundon is attached.

Ex-AAC member Paul Giblin was first home in the Galway XC championships last month, around the Palace Fields in Tuam. He follows in the illustrious footsteps of some top class athletes who've won this championship in the last: Willie Morris, Tommy Madden, Joe Scanlon, Gary Thornton.

More to follow as people recover...

Registration is now open for new members for Fit4Life in September! You can join by following this link https://athenryac.wufoo.com/forms/join-athenry-ac-fit-4-life-2017/ Fit4Life recommences on Monday 4th September at 7pm, meeting in the Church car park in Athenry.

Athletics Ireland today released the names of the athletes representing Ireland for the upcoming Celtic Games to be held in Santry on August 5th (http://www.athleticsireland.ie/news/celtic-games-team-announced-2017/). Athenry ACs own Ryan McNelis (on left of picture) will be representing Ireland in...

Saturday saw two representatives from Athenry AC compete at the National Junior / U23 championships. Ryan McNelis and Patryk Woleniuk had both targetted these championships as their main summer goal and both came away with medals and PBs. Ryan, who is a youth athlete, was entered for both the 400mH...

At this weekends National Track and Field league, three of Athenry ACs young stars were on show representing County Galway. This is the first year for a number of years that a mens county team was entered, and they were competing in Divison 1 in Athlone. Galway Women had a great year last year and...

At the recent Athletics Ireland AGM, the names of the new panel of National Technical Officials were announced for the period 2017 - 2020. Amongst those new NTOs were two from County Galway, GCH's Eamonn O'Donnell and Athenry AC's own Iain Shaw. Both Eamonn and Iain now hold the IAAF level 1...

Patryk Woleniuk was the sole representative for Athenry AC at this year's Irish LIfe National Junior and U23 Indoor Championships held at the Athlone International Arena today, Sunday, 29 January. Patryk has been consistently chipping away at his times for 60m Hurdles and today was reward for the...

Athenry AC came away from Athlone IT International Arena with a bumper haul of medals at the recent Galway Indoor Championships. This was our most successful year since the championships moved to Athlone, taking 33 medals including 9 gold which placed us third in the overall medal table. There were...

By popular demand, this years hat is purple!

Congrats to Rory on his recent Connacht Primary Schools XC victory, which was covered in this weekend's local paper of record, The Connacht Tribune. One of the advantages of hiring a paper writer is the fact that they provide customer support around the clock. Customer service representatives are...

Avail of the Early Bird registration fee of just €15. You can register online at https://athenryac.wufoo.com/forms/fields-of-athenry-10km-registration-form/ until 30th September!

After 8 years in the planning, work finally commenced today on the construction of our new sports facility in Moanbaun. Work started on clearing the entrances onto the site, putting down a contractors' carpark and recovering gravel and sand from the spoil heaps on the site. Work was also started on...

In just a few days time we will all become experts in converting Irish time to Rio time so that we can plan our viewing around the upcoming Olympics. However, before we sit in anticipation to chart the progress of the Irish team in Rio there is a somewhat significant display of domestic elite...

The latest in an occasional series... Congrats to Ailbhe Madden on her art win at the recent Athenry Agricultural Show. Look what she is wearing though!