Running with Chopsticks via Athenry Athletic Club
A piece of running travelogue from my recent trip to Vietnam...
Deirdre
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A piece of running travelogue from my recent trip to Vietnam...
Deirdre
read... A Very Christmassy Marathon via Athenry Athletic Club
T'was Christmas morning at 7:45am and all through the house not a creature was stirring, except for a runner. I crept down the stairs, and nearly twisted my ankle when I missed the last step – not a good start! I bypassed the Christmas tree, and the presents, and headed for the kitchen to make a festive bowl of porridge. I hadn't been up so early on Christmas day for years!
read... Galway Indoor Track and Field via Athenry Athletic Club
Over forty Juvenile Athletes aged from under 10 upwards travelled to Nenagh last Saturday to take part in the Galway County Track and Field indoors. There were some fantastic performances from all the athletes. Athenry Juvenile club took home 12 Gold 12 Silver and 16 bronze medals full results attached.
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Fields Juvenile Race Result via Athenry Athletic Club
A great turnout for the Juvenile 1KM race before the main event on last St. Stephen's Day.
A list of the finishers is below.
1 Brandon Lee 35 Alisha Noone 69 Kate Hurley
2 Mathew Treacy 36 Luke Burke 70 Catherine Gorman
3 Shannon Lee 37 cathal Lally 71 Maria Gorman
4 Dean Treacy 38 Carla Noone
5 Mikey Burke 39 Hazel Bichard
6 Tiernan Burke 40 Saibhe Eagan
7 Niamh Conerney 41 Colin Noone
8 Fionn Conerney 42 Sinead Lyons
9 Michael Rice 43 Shean Guiry
10 Christian Mullen 44 Anneka O'Donnell
11 Fabien Mangan 45 Leah Joyce
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2011 Fields of Athenry 10KM race booklet via Athenry Athletic Club
Please find attached a PDF (1.51MB) of the race booklet which was available at the race for free.
James.
P.S. All previous booklets are stored in the following locations:
2010 booklet
2009 booklet
2008 booklet
2007 booklet
read... Gerry Duffy to speak in Salthill via Athenry Athletic Club
Gerry Duffy Deca Ironman is coming West to inspire, motivate and energise the people of Galway
To mark the establishment of City Life Galway, a new Financial Planning Company in the city, set up by the well known Financial Advisor and keen athlete Pat O Dwyer, a very special talk by Ireland’s Deca Ironman Gerry Duffy entitled “Succeeding Against The Odds” will take place in the Salthill Hotel on Thurs 26th Jan commencing at 7.30pm
read... Tuam 8k has record number of entrants via Athenry Athletic Club
A great day for running meant that the Tuam 8k on Sunday Jan 15th had a record 630 entrants. They experienced a perfect racing day with cool, dry weather. Most people seemed pleased with the new one-loop course also, with the last 3k or so along the Athenry to Tuam road.
read... Official Result of the 2011 Fields 10KM Road Race via Athenry Athletic Club
Official race result plus all prize winners are attached in the usual formats (PDF, DOC, XLS, TXT).
Race Images are available from the following locations:
http://www.athenryac.com/gallery - AR and DNC
http://www.racepix.com/Fields-Of-Athenry/pictures/638/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157628575384797/ - Peter Mooney
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Talking About Running - Athenry AC Spring Talks Series via Athenry Athletic Club
Want to get faster? Fitter? Injury free? Lighter? Inspired to greater things this season? This year Athenry AC is hosting a series of talks aimed at runners from casual to high performance, to help you prepare for the best season ever.
The talks will take place in the Raheen Woods hotel on the below dates, and promise to be both informative and entertaining.
read... Spring Core/ Conditioning Class Begins 6th Feb - Book your Slot via Athenry Athletic Club
In response to lots of demand for a core/ conditioning and strength class, the 2012 spring club class will start on Monday 6th February.
We are lucky to have booked Tom French, an approved trainer with Athletics Ireland, and owner of French Vanoli Fitness in Oranmore, who is already doing some strength work with our junior club:
http://www.frenchvanoli.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcatego...
The cost is €70 for 10 weeks
Location: Fitness Centre, Raheen Business Park, Athenry
Mondays 6:30pm - 7:30pm (10 weeks - Feb. 6th to April 9th).
read... Newbery & Caldecott Medal Winners 2012 via Galway Public Libraries Blog
The Newbery and Caldecott prizes, the most prestigious in children's literature, were announced recently by the American Library Association. No cash prizes are given, but the awards are watched closely by booksellers and librarians. Previous winners include such favorites as Louis Sachar's "Holes" and Brian Selznick's "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," the basis for Martin Scorsese's film "Hugo."The 2012 Caldecott Medal winner is 'A Ball for Daisy', written and illustrated by Chris Raschka, published by Schwartz & Wade Books.In a wordless book with huge children’s appeal, Chris Raschka gives us the story of an irrepressible little dog whose most prized possession is accidently destroyed. With brilliant economy of line and color, Raschka captures Daisy’s total (yet... St. Brigit & the Remarkable Status of Women in Celtic Ireland via Speedie's Blog
Today is the first day of Spring, the season of birth and re-birth
that follows the harsh cold barren months of Winter. In Ireland, it is
dedicated to a female, St. Brigit (or Bridget, Brigid, Bride), the
country's most famous native born saint. Her name also has a strong
affinity with a Celtic deity associated with fertility and symbolised by
'fire', the element that offered humankind protection from the natural
deadly forces of winter.
Brigit is second only in the Irish saints' calendar to St. Patrick who was born in Roman Britain.
The distinctive St. Brigit Cross, made out of rushes today by children
in schools across the country, is a symbol of Celtic Ireland as renowned as the Shamrock and its associations with St. Patrick.
The
fact that Brigit was female is quite...
An Irish Christmas via Speedie's Blog
Days and Nights in Galway & Monaghan, Christmas 2012...
Irish Successes Abroad Exhibition at ED Carraroe Library via Galway Public Libraries Blog
An exhibition, compiled by the European Union Representation in Ireland, is now showing at the Europe Direct Centre, Carraroe Library until 21 February 2012.The Irish Success Abroad exhibition was put together by the European Commission Representation in Ireland. It consists of a collection of colourful panels demonstrating the achievements of Irish people in a wide variety of areas, including sport, business, literature, music and technology, to name but a few. It is a testimony to the achievements of Irish people, companies and organisations, and serves as an inspiration for those following in their footsteps. Europe Direct Centres were set up by the European Commission with the purpose of making information on the EU readily available to the citizen.There are 8 such...
New Coder Dojo Hackers Club Reflects Galway’s Digital Vibrancy via Speedie's Blog
Back to the Future!
Over the last few years, Galway has undergone a remarkable digital
renaissance that has brought back memories of the city in the 1980s when
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), then the world’s largest minicomputer
manufacturing corporation, was exporting computers all across Europe from its
factory in Ballybrit; when the first satellite link between Ireland and North
America was established at the state telephone company’s HQ in Mervue; when parents
were buying their first ever microcomputers such as the Sinclair ZX81 and
Commodore Vic 20 in computer retail outlets that were springing up across the
city so that their children could learn the new art of coding; when a few
visionary young mathematic, business and physics teachers were introducing...
Spring Core/ Conditioning Class Begins 6th Feb - Book your Slot via Athenry Athletic Club
In response to lots of demand for a core/ conditioning and strength class, the 2012 spring club class will start on Monday 6th February.
We are lucky to have booked Tom French, an approved trainer with Athletics Ireland, and owner of French Vanoli Fitness in Oranmore, who is already doing some strength work with our junior club:
http://www.frenchvanoli.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcatego...
The cost is €70 for 10 weeks
Location: Fitness Centre, Raheen Business Park, Athenry
Mondays 6:30pm - 7:30pm (10 weeks - Feb. 6th to April 9th).
read... Talking About Running - Athenry AC Spring Talks Series via Athenry Athletic Club
Want to get faster? Fitter? Injury free? Lighter? Inspired to greater things this season? This year Athenry AC is hosting a series of talks aimed at runners from casual to high performance, to help you prepare for the best season ever.
The talks will take place in the Raheen Woods hotel on the below dates, and promise to be both informative and entertaining.
read... Talking About Running – Athenry AC Club Spring Talks Series via Athenry Athletic Club
Want to get faster? Fitter? Injury free? Lighter? Inspired to greater things this season? This year Athenry AC is hosting a series of talks aimed at runners from casual to high performance, to help you prepare for the best season ever.
The talks will take place in the Raheen Woods hotel on the below dates, and promise to be both informative and entertaining.
Tuesday 7th Feb 8pm: Run Training for Performance
read... Razzle Dazzle Book Launch in Loughrea Library via Galway Public Libraries Blog
The launch of the 2011 edition of the Loughrea Writing Group's publication Razzle Dazzle took place recently in Loughrea Library.Razzle Dazzle was launched on the night by Liam Nolan who also edited and introduced the book. The cover art was designed by local artist Oonagh Nolan. The contributing authors read from the book on the night. The book is available for purchase from all good book stores and local...
Official Result of the 2011 Fields 10KM Road Race via Athenry Athletic Club
Official race result plus all prize winners are attached in the usual formats (PDF, DOC, XLS, TXT).
Race Images are available from the following locations:
http://www.athenryac.com/gallery - AR and DNC
http://www.racepix.com/Fields-Of-Athenry/pictures/638/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157628575384797/ - Peter Mooney
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Happy Birthday to Over the Edge via Galway Public Libraries Blog
The first Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2012 takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, January 19th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Dearbhaile Houston, Damian Cunniffe & Leanne O’Sullivan. This is a very special occasion as it is now exactly nine years since Over The Edge was born in Galway City Library in January...
LUNCHTIME AND FULL CREATIVE WRITING COURSES AT WESTERN WRITERS’ CENTRE via The Western Writers Centre
Starting Tuesday, February 14th, the Western Writers’ Centre - Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlin Maude - Galway, will recommence its unique lunchtime Creative Writing classes, kicking off at 1.05pm and ending at 1.55pm. These lunchtime courses in poetry and prose proved a great success when they were launched last year. They are coupled with morning classes beginning on the same date, for two hours from 10am to 12 noon. The lunchtime classes last eight weeks and are €80 and €60 concession, while the morning classes, also running for eight weeks, cost €100 and €75 concession.
“The courses proved very successful last year,” says course tutor, novelist and poet Fred Johnston, whose collection of stories, ‘Dancing In The Asylum,’ (Parthian UK) was reviewed...
Are you interested in a Spring core/ strength class in Athenry? via Athenry Athletic Club
Yes, I would be interested in a Spring core/ strength class on a weekly basis.
No, I would not be interested....
‘Knitting in the Classroom’ - Giving A New Lease of Life to a Traditional Craft via Speedie's Blog
One of my personal highlights of 2011 was
in convincing Lawrencestown National School to exhibit at the Galway Science
and Technology Science Festival Exhibition. Nothing special about that one
might say as I annually coordinate the involvement of schools into this one day
fair that is the highlight of a 2 week festival which this year took place in
Galway University (NUIG) attracting over 24,000 visitors representing the
largest crowd ever to appear on campus.
But what was different about this school
was that they were demonstrating something that many people might feel has
absolutely nothing to do with science or technology, namely the ancient
handicraft of Knitting.
Yet this popular misconception could not be
further from the truth. For mathematics is at the core of...
Tuam 8k has record number of entrants via Athenry Athletic Club
A great day for running meant that the Tuam 8k on Sunday Jan 15th had a record 630 entrants. They experienced a brilliant day for running with cool, dry weather. Most people seemed pleased with the new one-loop course also with the last 3k or so along the Athenry to Tuam road.
read... Roscommon 10k Race on Sunday 29th via Athenry Athletic Club
An Athenry man asked me to mention this race. It's being organized for a person recently confined to a wheelchair.......
Gerry Duffy to speak in Salthill via Athenry Athletic Club
Gerry Duffy Deca Ironman is coming West to inspire, motivate and energise the people of Galway
To mark the establishment of City Life Galway, a new Financial Planning Company in the city, set up by the well known Financial Advisor and keen athlete Pat O Dwyer, a very special talk by Ireland’s Deca Ironman Gerry Duffy entitled “Succeeding Against The Odds” will take place in the Salthill Hotel on Thurs 26th Jan commencing at 7.30pm
read... The Uncharted Territory - Oisín McGann via Galway Public Libraries Blog
Oisín McGann is an Irish author and illustrator. He writes in a range of genres for children and teenagers, mainly science fiction and fantasy, and has illustrated many of his own short story books for younger readers. He posted the following on his blog recently.On the 10th of October, Phil Hogan, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, announced that the Library Council (An Chomhairle Leabharlanna) was being dissolved. Bad as this news was for the council, it was a far worse omen for the future of the nation’s libraries. Particularly given the burnt-earth policy that is causing libraries to close all over the UK. In my view, the dissolving of the Library Council suggested that Mr Hogan, and the...