Just for completeness, scabbed directly from: http://www.galwaycityharriers.com/senior-results/corrib-oil-streets-galway-8k-2011-official-resultsprize-list .

A fantastic evening's entertainment out in Oranmore last Wednesday night. A perfectly formed out-and-back course. A lovely evening for racing. A massive crowd. A lovely light blue technical top for starters...plus a ballpoint pen! A pity about the hill from one to two KM but perfection is almost...

Paul Hession is in action at the World Athletics Championships this week. Paul is in heat 3 of the Men's 200m on Day 7, Friday, 02-Sep due to start at 03:26 (The first heat kicks off at 03:10) so set your alarm clocks. Paul is drawn in lane 2 and has avoided some of the big guns, although he is up...

Another success story from the Community Games has reached us here at Athenry AC Central. The photo at the top of this story show Aubrey O'Brien, gold medal U10 60m hurdles, Evan Quirke gold medal winner boys U14 Long Jump at the Community Games last weekend and their coach Mr. Dermot McNamara. Our...

Athenry AC had a large number of participants involved in the Community Games National Finals held in AIT Athlone on the 20th & 21st August. On Day 1, first up was Daniel Regan in the Boys U14 Shot Putt with a throw of 9.78M. This was good enough for 9th place. Grace Cahill was next up in the Girls...

Very successful first running of the South Galway AC Kilcolgan Castle 4M road race yesterday afternoon! Results in usual formats attached. More to follow in due course. P.S. Those free oysters were lovely :-). P.P.S. See also this great picture of the club's new singlet.

Since the late and much-lamented Killimor 4M Road Race (organised by Mary and Thomas Porter) there was been no road race of that distance in the Galway calendar. This oversight is being rectified this weekend with the first running of South Galway AC's Kilcolgan Castle 4M - see Upcoming Event...

(Report with thanks to www.connemara100.com) For some, a marathon is as far as the imagination runs, but for fifteen athletes the prospect of running one hundred miles in Connemara lay ahead on August 13. The Connemara 100 Mile Ultra Marathon, now in it's third year drew the biggest field to date...

Another rainy weekend in Galway, but there wasn't much fatigue just a week after the Streets of Galway with a good club showing at the annual Claregalway 10km . Local GCH athlete Matt Bidwell once again took the honours in 32:58. Another GCH member, Helen Corbett, took the women's race in 41:40...

They say imitation is the best form of flattery. With that in mind, the inaugural Roscommon 5k Series will kick off in County Roscommon on August 31st. This event involves a series of 5km runs on four consecutive Wednesday evenings commencing August 31st. Each race will take place in a different...

Over the next 2 weekends the Community Games National Finals will be held in AIT, Athlone, over 2,500 children from all corners of the country will participate over the weekends, they will be supported by over 600 volunteers and organisers, as well as family members and friends Athenry Area will...

Our very own Jane-Ann Healy stormed to victory in Ireland's first Kilomarathon (26.2km) last Sunday in Moone Village Co. Kildare. All her had work of recent weeks have obviously paid off with some spectacular racing performances, not least this very impressive win. To put things into perspective she...

http://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2011/0806/hessionp.html -> Sprinter Paul Hession has qualified for the Olympic Games after achieving the A qualification time at the Senior Track and Field Championships in Dublin. The Irish 200m record holder won today's event at the Morton Stadium, Santry in a...

The weather just about held, and there was a great club turnout once again for the annual Streets of Galway 8km race. Results are only available in PDF format (copy attached in finish, not chip order with thanks to Galway City Harriers) so I don't have a full breakdown of the individual club...

A little belated but here are the Galway County Track and Field results for 2011 (Thursday 16th, 23rd and 30th June). As home to the 'fastest white man in the world', Paul Hession, Athenry AC have their own track claim to fame, but numbers participating from the club weren't high this year. Brian...

A huge congratulations to Frank Burke, who successfully completed his first Ironman distance triathlon in Bolton, England on Sunday. It's a challenging distance, with a 2.4 mile swim and 112 mile cycle, followed by a 26 mile run. His results were as follows: Swim 1:07 (nice) Bike 6:28 (great bike on...

Congrats to Darragh McShane of the club on winning the recent Jog in the Bog event over in Clooninagh, Tuam. See: http://www.joginthebog.ie/Default.aspx?pageId=1090651

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2011/0730/1224301417126.html PAUL HESSION 200m sprinter “You can’t ignore the Olympics,” he says. “It’s too big. It’s a circus, really.” Based in Scotland, the 28-year-old from Athenry enjoyed the circus no end last time out. He won his quarter-final...

Nice to see a sprinkling of Athenry AC runners in the first page of the results! Another excellent event I've been reliably told. I was otherwise detained in another part of the city, for my sins, refereeing (badly!) an U-16 B hurling game. The less said about that the better, so as to protect the...

Athenry AC athletes captured after the recent Longford Half. This image is courtesy of Peter Mooney who kindly let us use his photo. There are more pictures of Athenry AC athletes at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/5946570664/in/photostream/ . The XLS containing the results is also attached...

I understand there was an amazing crowd at the first running of this race last week in Renville out in Maree/Oranmore. Congratulations to the organisers on a super race and the large amount of money raised for its very good cause! PDF of provisional results courtesy of our friends in www...

News has reached us of national success in the U-12 All-Ireland Club relays last weekend in Tullamore. Silver to the U-12 Girls from Athenry AC! The team was Michaela Finnerty, Siobhán McGrath, Alysha Woods, Rebecca Ruane, Niamh Hannon and Lydia Doyle. Congrats to all! See a lovely article about...

Morton Mile - http://www.clonliffeharriers.com/ch_news_item.shtml?cmsitemnumber=_1310251710 Ciaran O`Lionaird 3:57.99 & Paul Robinson 3:59.99 Results - http://www.clonliffeharriers.com/ch_news_item.shtml?cmsitemnumber=_1310251710 Morton Mile 1. Jordan McNamara – USA – 3.56.83 2. Brandon Bethke – USA...

The club's 6th (or 7th?) Burger Run took place in near perfect running conditions last Friday evening around the old Fields 10KM course with slight modifications. Dull, slightly chilly, misty! It's the now traditional Name-Your-Own-Time format and is a non-championship race but has the designation...

Congratulations to Sinead Tuohy from the club who won the All Ireland U-19 high jump in Tullamore last weekend to add to the gold she won in the All Ireland indoors earlier this year.