See http://www.paulhession.co/blogs/new-beginnings.html or below 14 Nov 2011 - New Beginnings It’s been a hectic time since I got home from holidays. After the disappointment of the Worlds I couldn’t shake the nagging feeling that I really needed a dramatic change. It was the first time I had...

Fair play to MTB for running both Dublin (4:20) and New York (4:08) a few weeks back. She's not quite in the rocking chair yet!

Plagiarised directly from the horse's mouth! The RunIreland website - in which three of our members - Ray O'Connor, Seb Locteau and Alan Burke are instrumental - recently won an award for their website: Galway owned website, RunIreland.com was last night presented with a prestigious Eircom Spider...

Attached find the provisional result and prize list for the second annual Corofin AC "Winning Way" 8KM Road Race held today, 13 November. Almost perfect conditions - give or take a bracing wind - greeted the 93 starters (and finishers) this afternoon. A surprise appearance from Gary Thornton...

Attached find a full result and prize list ( XLS and PDF) from the very successful second running of the Athenry AC Fit4Life 5KM in Newcastle, Athenry on Saturday, 5 November 2011. Congratulations to Maria Hehir and her crew of merry helpers on a super race. The weather was simply sensational - dry...

The DCM website seems to be suffering like my ankle tendons - overstretched and undertrained! A summary of club finishers below has been added - updated 02-Nov with as much information as we can piece together from AAI and comments. Apologies to anyone left out of initial results but it's been...

Athenry are hosting the County Uneven Age Cross Country on Sunday 23 October starting at 1pm. This event is been held at Moonbaun situated on the left just after Athenry Soccer Club. To get to the event travel straight out over the railway lines and continue straight on past raheen pitch and tennis...

This December Paul Fallon will be running 1000 miles around Ireland to try to raise funds for the homeless charity which he started back in January, On The Road Again (OTRA). The target is to try to raise €100,000 for OTRA (www.otra.ie) To help the team reach this goal, they are holding events in 8...

Press Release Irish 200m Record Holder and Olympian Paul Hession (Athenry AC), has today announced that he will be moving from his current training base in Scotland to Dublin, to work with Coach John Coghlan. Coghlan gained his coaching expertise while working alongside leading speed coaches Loren...

Unfortunately due to the Vocational School gym been unavailable Little Athletics will be cancelled until Monday 7 November.

Please find attached the official result from the first North East Galway/Moylough 10KM road race which took place in and around this North East Galway village on Sunday, 16 October. Congratulations to Linda Cummins (mellodyl2003 at yahoo.ie or 087-2801935) and her hard-working committee on this...

The Athenry AC men's team did well on a day where there was plenty of distraction via a long wet windy last marathon training run around Ryehill to divert tired legs. Darragh McShane led a team over 8000m which included Mick Rice, Mark Breen, Ray Somers, Frank Burke and Alan Burke - and! - in a...

See both race results located here !

The 10th running of the Fields of Athenry 10km will take place on St. Stephen's day, December 26th at 11am. Over the last number of years this has has become one of the leading road races in the country, and this year we aim to raise the bar higher. The race returns to its now traditional route...

A huge congratulations to Paul Giblin who completed the Challenge Barcelona Ironman distance race today. He finished with a superb time of 11:35:36 and with a strong sub 4 hour marathon; well under the 12 hours, to round off the Athenry AC year of triathlon feats nicely. Splits: Swim 1:14:00 T1 05...

It's turning to autumn and the well titled 'Grey Lake' 10km took place on a grey but sunny-in-spots autumn day in Loughrea. With a few good hills taking the runners out around the start of the course, it's not one for a fast time but there was a strong showing and some fast times from 25 Athenry AC...

The 5k championships welcomed a larger than usual number of competitors to Newcastle on Sunday 18th. Thirty seven souls delayed their Sunday lunch to run the loop, a number of them for the first time and glad we were to see them. A delighted Sebastien Locteau took advantage of his recent road -- as...

The followed people deferred their entry to the 2010 race, and are automatically entered into in the 2011 Fields of Athenry 10km event. First Name(s) Last Name John Conway eoghan curtin eve daly Kevin Darcy David Dempsey cian devane john duffy emmett dunleavy Frances Egan Liam Egan Yvonne Francis...

Results from the Clifden 10km run last weekend. This race is supported by Iain Shaw, as it has a special cause to raise money for the lifeboats in Clifden. He promises faithfully that he's going to run in it next year! The annual Clifden Lifeboat 10k race took place on Sunday 11th September. The...

Jane Ann Healy travelled in style down to Waterford, flying down with Aer Arann for the National Half Marathon championships. Fly she did, as she finished in 1:28:35, at my count in 22nd place in the senior women's category and improving on her Longford time from a couple of weeks ago; showing great...

Training times for Juveniles is as follows Little Athletics children born 2004 and 2005 Vocational School Gym Monday 7 to 8 oclock. All older children 8 to 9 oclock vocational school gym Monday nights and Thursday nights 7 to 8 oclock.

The first race in the first ever Roscommon 5k Series kicked off bang on time in Roscommon town last Wednesday night, and Athenry's Conor Dolan took full advantage of this new fixture to put in a barnstorming run. Conor finished 2nd in 16.39 behind none other than suprise entrant Shane Healy, a...

In the early hours of Friday 2nd September, Paul Hession took to the track for his 4th successive World Athletics Championships in South Korea. Running in Heat 3, Paul came home in a creditable 4th place, against some stiff competition in a time of 21.02. The first three from each heat qualified...

The Galway Ladies team did very well to finish in 6th place in the Premier Division of the National League on August 20th last at Santry Stadium. The GCH men finished 2nd in Division One and are now promoted to Premier Division for 2012. See: http://www.tuamac.com/tuam-ac-notes-22-aug-2011 Full...

Athletics training for all ages is back next Monday September 5. Little athletics children born 2004 and 2005 will be on a Monday night in Vocational school gym from 7 to 8 oclock. There is a 2euro charge per child. All other ages born 2003 and older will be training on Monday and Wednesday nights...