If just running around isn't enough for you, then maybe you'd fancy a shot at a triathlon.
Many of Athenry AC's members are also member of the Predator Triathlon club, which has just launched it's new site at http://www.predatortriclub.ie/.
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Inis "Iron" Meáin is a tough, or tougher if you take in the dunes, 10k(ish) run around the island, which was held on Sunday for the fourth year running. The event is organized in aid of Coláiste Naoimh Eoin, the island's school. One of our newest Athenry AC members, Sinead Foran, took part again this year and wrote a race report for your reading pleasure.
As you read you may find that Sinead was not the only Athenry AC member to take part ...
‘Inis Iron Meain’ 2008
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Athenry AC made a very special presentation to Mick Rice last night at our second organisational meeting for the upcoming Fields of Athenry 10KM on St. Stephen's Day: an engraved Glycine pocket watch.
The watch was ostensibly really to commemorate his participation in the recent IAU World Cup 100KM but also to thank him for his many hours of hard work on behalf of the club and all its members since our founding back in October 2002.
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What more can I say, really?
2008 Hat...
Tom Hunt sent on this very "interesting" image of last year's hat. I'm afraid to ask the history of this picture though.
2007 Hat...
London Marathon 2009 - Guaranteed Places Now Available! Early Booking Advisable.
We are delighted to have once again secured guaranteed entries to one of the world’s top marathons – the London City Marathon.
Each year places for the London City Marathon are selling out earlier than expected.
To guarantee your place in the London City Marathon 2009 you need to commit before December 1st.
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At the All-Ireland Live Poetry Slam Championships on November 12 at the White House Pub in O Connell Street, Limerick former Sinn Fein activist Donal O Siadhachain, from Sliabh Luachra received the All Ireland Poetry prize for his passionate poem, Mandela , a tribute to one of a personal hero. Donal competed with poets from Ulster, Connacht and Leinster and his greatest wish now was meet his hero Nelson Mandela and perform the poem for him. The late poet Michael Hartnett once remarked that the only genuine Irish was spoken in Sliabh Luachra. The jury’s still out on that one!
- do you need a hand with that? (l-r) Donal Ó Siadhachain and Barney Sheehan, White House MC.
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At a fantastic awards ceremony in Dublin yesterday, Paul Hession picked up the award for athlete of the year, beating off stiff competition from Rob Heffernan, Eileen O Keefe and Finnoula Britton.
Athenry AC was also nominated from club of the year, but that award went to Donegal's Tir Conaill.
A good crowd attended from Athenry AC, and amoung the guests were Paul's coach Stuart Hogg and his wife, who had flown over from Scotland for the event.
More details at the AAI website - http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?p=5181
We'll have a few more photos up here later this......
The eminent Three-Leggéd Stool writers’ group, long-running and always busy, has atarted up an Open Mic afternoon every third Saturday in the month at the Glór Centre, Ennis, Co. Clare. Admission is free, all are welcome, and it will kick off around two pm. The group have also published an anthology of their work which includes a CD. It was all go yesterday, Saturday, when the first session began, with readers from all over the County and even further, old and new, reciting their work. There was humourous poetry, serious poetry, sad poetry, political poetry. Dominic Taylor, from Limerick’s White House Poets and Revival Press, offered some initial words welcoming the project; the new writers’ centre in Limerick is a credit to all concerned, of course. Brian Mooney of...
Last Thursday I got the chance to revisit Bicester Village as part of a Social Web shopping experience and experiment organised by Technokitten.Truth be told I wasn’t too sure what to expect with the village, the last time I had been to Bicester village was 1995 and I wasn’t impressed with it back then. (Waaaay too much tat for sale!)On arrival to the outlet we were taken to the Bicester Village lounge, tucked away towards the very end of the village. On the way to the lounge some of the cute designer boutiques I passed by included Dior, Myla, Agent Provocateur, Jimmy Choo, Hugo Boss, Mulberry, Celine, Versace, Matthew Williamson, DKNY, Paul & Joe, Bally and Alexander McQueen. I also passed by a lot of the High Street shops like Jigsaw, Whistles, French Connection and Karen...
The November Over The Edge: Open Reading will take place in Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street, Galway on Thursday, November 20th, 6.30-8pm. The Featured Readers are Elizabeth Power, Gordon Hewitt & John Goodby.John Goodby is a poet and translator who lectures at the University of Swansea. His poetry has been described by Sean O'Brien as ‘bold and sensuous ... it reads like a chowder of names laced with methedrine ... at once lush and abrasive.’ John Goodby has translated Heine's Germany: A Winter’s Tale (2005), the contemporary Algerian poet Soleiman Adel Guemar, and is currently translating the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Among his latest publications are the first anthology of translations of Irish women poets into Spanish, No Soy Tu Musa and Uncaged sea (2008), a...
Fadó, fadó in éireann . . .there was a lively Kinvara Writers’ Group in Kinvara, Co. Galway, which met regularly and had writers such as Gabriel Fitzmaurice and Noel Monahan reading and workshop there. It even orgabnised pilgrimages to the Poet’s House and there is a large photograph depicting a group on one of these outings, hanging on the wall of Connolly’s pub across the street from Greens. Is it the parent or sibling or clone of the writers’ group which has now started up in Kinvara’s Green’s pub near the harbour, a pub better known for its traditional music? Monday November 10th, around 9pm, is the next date for the writers’ group. Good to see a new writers’ group - if it is a new one. Anyone with further information, or who can...
Find attached a copy of an article published in the Connacht Tribune in September 1992.
Good to see three of the men pictured are still running.
Murt Hynes & Michael Comber......
Almudena Grandes, wrote last week in the Madrid newspaper El Pais that "true freedom is not to be able to say what you think, but is the power to think about what is being said."And she continued: "Because an uneducated country is not a country of citizens, but of audiences, a country of audiences who will swallow everything." And Rawi Hage, the Beirut-born writer, speaking after being awarded the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2008 said:"To all those librarians who currently and historically have gathered and diffused knowledge, beauty, and resistance, even as the waves of ignorance periodically cover words and stifle thought, I say: I am an admirer and an...
Athenry AC Juvenile athletic club AGM is on Monday 17th November in the New Park Hotel at 8.30pm.
Everybody......
The Western Writers’ Centre - Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maude, Gallimh - is hosting three major literary-drama workshops in the Irish language, beginning on November 29th.
The Workshops are:Darach Mac Con Iomaire, 29th November an Introduction to ‘Writing for Theatre’; Ailbhe Nic Giolla Bhríghde, 17th January, ‘An Introduction to writing for Television,’ and Diarmuid de Faoite, 31st January, on where theatre and television crossover.
Fees are €20 per session or €50 for the three sessions. Places are limited. PLEASE CONTACT THE CENTRE FOR FURTHER DETAILS: westernwriters@eircom.net or 091.533594/087.2178138...
Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maude - The Western Writers’ Centre - were last night recipients of a major new award from Bus Eireann and were one of the three top award winners. The awards’ ceremony took place in Galway’s Radisson Hotel in the presence of Ministers Eamonn O Cuiv and Frank Fahey and was presided over by GAA legend, County Kerry’s own Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, who spoke of his interest in the Western Writers’ Centre’s project. The awards, sponsored by Bus Eireann, are for projects in the Irish Language. The Centre are enabled by the award funding to procede with work on a project in the Irish language involving three Irish-language poets in the Galway City area.
“We are delighted at this,” said Fred Johnston, the...
Report and Pictures from this year's Hollymount Races From Tom Hunt of Mayo AC
The 43rd Annual Hollymount Road Races took place on Sunday. Once again it was excellently organised by Sean Reilly and his team. It was the eighth race of nine in the C&C Cellular Mayo AC Road Race League. The weather was cold with a slight breeze but thankfully the rain held off. The uphill finish along the main street proved a good test at the end of the womens one lap 3k while the men had to go over the top three times in their 10k race.
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The 43rd Annual Hollymount International Road Race took place yesterday in cold and breezy conditions on the famous, hilly circuit. The ladies raced 3km and the men 10km.
Athenry AC fielded a ladies team and two men's teams. The organisation was flawless, the atmosphere friendly and the cuppa afterwards was badly needed.
Results attached below. Apologies for the short report.
Hollymount...
This weekend's decision of the members of the Progressive Democrats(PDs) to cease to exist as a political party was good news. While the PDs came into existence in 1985 with noble aspirations to expose state and political corruption as well as to secure on progress on liberal social issues such as divorce and contraceptive, they soon become closely identified with promoting the free market Thatcherite economic policies of successive governments over the last few decades. Whilst this led to the Celtic Tiger phonomena that gave Ireland unprecedented levels of growth and wealth, the monies gained were wasted on over-development, property speculation and in creating a dehumanising urban sprawl of concrete jungles and sterile greens . A new Irish identity emerged that was characterised by...
After keeping a low profile for the last few weeks, our own Mick Rice did us proud today completing the International Association of Ultrarunners 100K World Cup in Italy. “ULTRAMARATONA DEGLI ETRUSCHI” started this morning in Tuscania and finished 100km later in Tarquinia. The race was valid as both the IAU 100K World Cup and the IAU 100K European Championships. The worlds best ultra marathoners competed today and one of them was from Athenry AC.
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The practice of indicating suitable ages for goods bought by or for children is rarely the subject of controversy. Apart from the children themselves, who always desire whatever happens to lie in the age bracket above, most adults find such advice helpful in avoiding potentially dangerous or inappropriate items.But publishers' plans to introduce age ranging guidance onto children's books have met with fierce opposition from authors including Philip Pullman, Anne Fine and Michael Rosen.The 'No to age banding' Campaign has been set up by writers and other professionals who believe that the proposal to put an age-banding figure on books for children is ill-conceived and damaging to the interests of young readers. The Campaign's statement and supporters are at:...
The death is announced of poet and writer, James Liddy on November 4th. Born in 1934 in Dublin, his works include Esau, My Kingdom for a drink (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1962); In a Blue Smoke (The Dolmen Press, 1964); Blue Mountain (The Dolmen Press, 1968); A Life of Stephan Dedalus (San Francisco, White Rabbit Press, 1969); A Munster Song of Love and War (White Rabbit Press,1971); Baudelaire’s Bar Flowers (San Francisco, Capra Press, 1975); Corca Baiscinn (The Dolmen Press, 1977); Comyn’s Lay (The Dolmen Press, 1978), among numerous other publications. A member of Aosdána, he lived and taught in Milwaukee, USA for some years. Our condolences to his friends and family.
- James Liddy: photo (c) www.kennys.ie...
NUI Galway Arts and Media Alumni Branch presents
Olympian and NUI Galway Medical Student
Paul Hession in conversation with Colm Murray, RTÉ
The Oak Room
Buswells Hotel, Molesworth Street, Dublin
Tuesday November 11 – Reception 6.45pm (cash bar)
Starter's Orders 7.30pm
RSVP by November 7th - Colm O'Dwyer, colm.odwyer@nuigalway.ie, 091......
The Summer Reading Programme has been running in Galway City Library since the 1980's.One of the interesting features of this years recent certificate award ceremoney was the attendance of a former particpant of the programme from the early years.. She is now a lecturer in pharmacology at NUIG and was one of the first to receive a certificate when it started over 20 years ago. This year she attended the awards with her niece, who completed the reading programme this year.Her career success is evidence that reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning...
The latest issue of the Irish Writers’ Union news-letter, ‘Final Draft,’ headlines with news that the city of Dublin, through its public library service, “is leading a formal bid for the UNESCO City of LIterature designation.” The organising committee includes the Arts Council’s Sarah Bannan and Joe Woods of Poetry Ireland. Commercial benefit to the city who takes the designation is considerable: Edinburgh, who was up in 2004, generated £2.2 million per annum as a result. Increased tourism is a side-benefit. Literary, tourism and academic bodies have been involved. The cities of Kiev, Kolkata, Norwich, and Alexandria are in the hat for the next designation - but Galway City, in spite of running an international literature festival, Cúirt, and having...
After an anxious wait it's been confirmed today that the Athenry Womens team have won silver medals in the National Senior Women's Marathon Championship of Ireland. This comes only a couple of months after their bronze medals in Waterford at the national Half Marathon. Does anyone else notice a potential sequence here ?
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Johnny O'Connor ran another fine marathon yesterday in New York. Reports indicate a very testing second half with a biting cold wind to contend with. Despite these adverse conditions Johnny was only a few minutes outside his personal best which he set in Berlin late last year.
Good Running Johnny!
The vital statistics:-
Race Number: 1429
Gender Position: 1332
Age Position: 548
Race Number: 4488
Name: JOHN O'CONNOR
Age: 35M
Country IRL
Official Time: 3:06:43
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Dublin City Marathon 2008 Race Report by Mark Breen
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