Ann Carter and Grainne Breen at Hollmount Road Races Mark and Grainne Breen ran the races of their lives in the recent Florida Marathon Races. Grainne took her place in the half-marathon race and came home 3rd in her age group in a time of 2:12:50, a superb run in hot and humid conditions. Mark took...

Connemarathon race director and club member Ray O Connor has decided to take on the Brathay Challenge this May. This is one of the craziest things I've heard of in a while... he will be doing 10 marathons in 10 days! He'll have do all his training while preparing for and organising the Connemarathon...

Seb Locteau is the driving force behind the great new running web-site www.RunIreland.com. Seb is a long time member and supporter of Athenry AC and has represented the club at many races. Through his personal fitness company SebFitness (www.sebfitness.com) he has been a sponsor of the Fields of...

Congratulations to all involved with the Mayo AC Road Racing Leage for 2007. Tom Hunt has once again come up with the goods and has supplied us with the league standings for men and women in advance of the final race in the series in Westport on Sunday the 30th of December. As you'll be able to see...

Photo's courtesy John Walshe and James Sexton Galway females were in fine form in Dungarvan today. The AAI Novice & Juvenile Uneven Ages Cross Country Championships of Ireland were held in perfect cross country running conditions in Waterford on Sunday. The Athenry U13 Girls stole the early...

Update: Irish Record Holder, and future Olympian, Paul Hession will present the medals to all juvenile athletes after the race! This year's Fields of Athenry 10k Road Race will be accompanied by a 1km Fun Run for juvenile athletes, that is those under sixteen years of age. As this is the first time...

Good luck to all the girls competing in All Ireland Juvenile Cross Country this Sunday in Dungarvan. The under-11 team is Niamh Keane, Eimear Keane, Roisin Holland, Rachel O' Brien, Derbhal Higgins, and Grace Cahill. The under-13 team is Marie Tuhoy, Hayleigh Sommers, Dearbhal Fox, Lorna Hannon...

RTE is accepting nominations for the RTE Sports Awards 2007 until next Friday the 14th December (next Friday). This is a gilt-edged opportunity for us to highlight the achievements of our very own Paul Hession during 2007. We all know by now about the national records he has broken, the major races...

If you were to only run one mile each year, one of these events wouldn't be a bad place to do it. Please Support The Goal Mile see http://www.goal.ie/fundraising/miles.shtml for details LIST OF GOAL MILE VENUES 2007 County Town Location in December 2007 Dates and Times The Flagship GOAL Mile: Dublin...

News From Ballycotton In just four days, the 2,500 race entry limit for the Ballycotton ‘10’ has been reached. This means the we cannot accept any more entries unless you are a member of an Athletics Association of Ireland club or have run one of our 2007 Summer 5-mile races or you live overseas...

From James Veale - West Waterford AC It's exciting times ahead for our club with the announcement last Wednesday evening of a brand new sponsor of our 10 mile road race on February 3rd 2008. Now in its 16th year the race was formally sponsored by Waterford Crystal a sponsorship which the club was...

Preparations are being made for next year's Connemarathon , and one of the first things to get out of the way was a new website. So we decided to raise the bar a little and make the website more informative, easier to navigate and generally clean up our act a little. The race website is very...

Results Files Now Attached The Galway Men's and Women's county teams achieved silver medals in the 'B' category of today's AAI All Ireland Inter County Cross Country Championships in the Curragh. It was the women's team in particular who shone as Galway fielded their first team in this competition...

A Report from The New York City Marathon 2007 by TJ Beatty In Nov.2006, while watching the New York City Marathon on television, I decided that I would be there in 2007. The reason for this decision was that I wanted to do something to mark my promotion from the ranks of the O-55’s to the next grade...

This coming Sunday sees the Athletics Ireland All-Ireland Inter-counties cross country championships for juniors and seniors take place in the Curragh, Co. Kildare. County Galway will field full teams in both Senior Men's and Women's races. The men's team selection was based largely on the recent Co...

Spectators Take in All the Hollymount Action Full Results Attached Now The Hollymount International Road Races took place today in cool autumn sunshine and a brisk breeze. There was the usual strong field in all three events and a particularly close finish in the women's race. It was a fine day for...

Recently posted on the Athletics Ireland web page http://www.athleticsireland.ie/ ... If you are a registered member of Athletics Ireland you can now sign up for regular e-mail alerts on coaching athletics. To get regular e-mail alerts containing news and coaching articles sent directly to you send...

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to walk a marathon? After all, how hard could it be? Very, very difficult actually as a work colleague of mine Susan and her 'significant other' Rob found out in Dublin this year. Susan ran this race last year in just over four hours and so she knows a...

Fair play to the BHAA and the AAI; this time out they were really fast with results of the marathon. We had Dublin Marathon Results and National Marathon results in no time at all. Credit where credit is due. Heading into the marathon this year we knew that Athenry AC would be up against it to win...

Photo Credit: Theo Solberg Athenry under-age runners will be strongly represented in the Galway teams that are bound for Hazelwood Co.Sligo this Saturday for the Connaught Cross Country Championships. We send our best wishes to all the young Galway athletes who will be running for their county. Run...

Results and Photos Courtesy James Sexton 33rd Annual St Marys and the Bernie Meaney 5k Road Race 4/11/07 1 Gerry Ryan Galway City Harriers Snr 14.47 2 Seamus Power Kilmurry Ibrickane North Clare Snr 15.20 3 Dermot Galvin St Johns Snr 15.28 4 Ciaran Fitzpatrick North Laois Snr 15.43 5 Brian Murphy...

Photo Credit: Alan Cowzer More of Alan's great Irish Athletics photography can be seen at www.cowzer.com/athletics/ The Mayo AC men’s team has claimed silver medals in last week’s AAI National Marathon in results just released by the AAI. The Mayo AC team was lead home by club stalwart John Byrne...

From: http://adidasdublinmarathon.ie/results.php and thanks to Iain Shaw for doing the hard work here... 74 Mick Rice (No. 9443) Irl M40 10 00:39:35 01:24:01 01:58:54 02:46:14 02:46:20 79 Brian O' Connor (No. 9340) Irl M 40 00:39:20 01:22:51 01:57:14 02:46:39 02:46:45 95 Brian M Bruton (No. 11686)...

At the last supper on Sunday night in the Italian on Parliament Street, those congregated all tossed a fiver into the pot and got to predict each others finishing times - all but their own for complete fairness! - and here are the results. Congratulations to Peter (Delmer) who held off Bridget-Ann...

Photo Credit: Alan Cowzer More of Alan's great Irish Athletics photography can be seen at www.cowzer.com/athletics/ More photos on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/groups/566624@N23/pool/ The Dublin City Marathon was a wonderful race this year: it always is. It was a wonderful day for our club too...