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Congratulations to the following athletes who have been selected to be on our 2025 Athlete Performance Pathway. This is a program within the Club which looks to support athletes who have achieved certain standards within their competitions in 2024. The program provides additional training and planning support to assist the athletes as they move throughContinue reading “Athlete Performance Pathway”

The 2023 / 2024 season came to a fitting end at Day 3 of the Older Ages All-Irelands in Tullamore last Saturday. Seven athletes competed and all achieved Personal Bests, a remarkable achievement. The Girls U16 squad have had a stellar season and wrapped it up nicely with both Alicja Doyle and Marianne O’Farrell claimingContinue reading “Personal Bests and Medals Wrap Up The Season”

Alicja Doyle claimed a silver medal in the All-Ireland Girls u16 100m yesterday in Tullamore. Alicja ran a PB in her heat and then again in the final to add to her bronze medal from the 60m indoors. A great full season of athletics from Alicja after only joining the club a little over aContinue reading “Alicja Takes 100m Silver”

The All-Ireland “B” championships and National Relays took place in Tullamore today. The “B” championships take place for athletes who did not medal in the regional championships and provides a competitive platform at national level. In the National Relays and we had four teams that qualified from the regionals in June. The boys u13 relayContinue reading “All-Ireland Relay Bronze For U15 Boys”

Day 1 of the U13-U19 All-Irelands took place in Tullamore last weekend. After a great showing in the Dublins 75m Hurdles last month, Sophie Winkless was looking to bring that form into the All-Ireland. Having qualified for the final earlier in the morning she ran a strong race to just miss out on the medals,Continue reading “Sophie Goes Close In All-Ireland Hurdles”

With seven relay teams competing it was an exodus from North Dublin akin to Joxer off to Stuttgart for Euro ’88 or Italia ’90 for the All-Ireland Children’s Games and U12 All-Irelands in Tullamore. On a classic midlands scorcher, the Academy athletes (u9-u11) acquitted themselves brilliantly across the full range of events. In addition toContinue reading “Leon and Joe Jump High And Long In Tullamore Sun”

It was around 4:30pm on Sunday in Tallaght when our Club Treasurer stopped cheering on another relay team on the last leg of their final to realise that we hadn’t budgeted for this many athletes to be qualifying for the All-Ireland Children’s Games in Tullamore in July. A good problem to have though! But, it’sContinue reading “Academy Athletes Run, Jump & Throw Their Hearts Out At Childrens Games”

Day 1 of the Dublin Outdoor Leagues took place in Tallaght last Sunday. There was a good contingent of athletes competing in all ages across a full range of events. Personal Bests too for many athletes are they continue their preparation for the Dublin Outdoors. Some PB highlights included: Next League is on Saturday MayContinue reading “Dublin Outdoor League Day 1 Update”

The final day of All-Ireland Indoor action saw more PBs and some close medal calls for the Clongriffin crew in Athlone today. Hurdle Finals We had four hurdlers in action with two making their finals. Sophie progressed through her heat safely and was close to her PB in the final to claim 5th place inContinue reading “PBs and Close Calls Close Out Indoors 2024”