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 !

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Photo: Front: Joe Deane & John Quigley; Rear: John Ryan, Joe Dineen & Dan Byrne From John Quigley Eagle AC, Cork. The C Team - Cancer Survivors are running in the relay section of the Cork City Marathon on Monday June 1st 2009. The C Team - Cancer Survivors is a very special and unique relay team...

I've run the Craughwell 5KM course enough times now to have noticed most everyting there is about the interesting, and not so interesting, landmarks along the way. The one thing that has always intrigued me can be observed just before the 4KM mark on the left-hand side of the road, in a little...

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shizo_Kanakuri Shizo Kanakuri (Japanese: Kanaguri Shis? or Kanakuri Shiz?, August 20, 1891 – November 13, 1984) was a Japanese marathon runner and one of the early leaders of track and field athletics in Japan. He is best known for disappearing during the marathon...

On Sunday the 10th of May 2009 the Predator Triathlon Club will be holding their first event of 2009. Normally the club organises a Duathlon in early March. We have been unable to hold one this year as the ongoing construction of the new N6 has meant that our route is not available. This year we...

A new faster course, a race suitable for all See Also http://www.runireland.com/news/leixlip-5k-race-9th-may for Online Entry and http://lecheileac.blogspot.com/2009/04/leixlip-5k-road-race-suitable-for-all.html for full event details. Now in its 8 year of running, the Leixlip 5k road race has been...

500 Runners €500 The challenge of running over 60 marathons, and more than 2,000 miles in 43 different countries over four years might be daunting enough for most people, but not Johnny Donnelly. The former Sawdoctor, currently on mile 554 and marathon 19 of his four year odyssey has set himself the...

The very first running of the East Clare 12K takes place in Kilkishen on Monday next May 4th . It is open to runners, walkers and cyclists over a very picturesque course on the shores of Cullaun Lake and taking in approx 1.5km of Cullaun Wood The walkers will have a water or snack stop at Cullaun...

Has it been a year? It doesn't feel like it. Next Tuesday will see the return of the Galway 5km Series with the staging of the first race in Newcastle near Athenry, which will be organised by Athenry AC. This series is sold out - there will be no new entries taken on the night. Anyone who has pre...