Athletics
Trinity Sport in association with Bank of Ireland officially unveiled its sport scholars for the 2019 – 2020 season on Tuesday, 29th October at an event for family and friends in the Dining Hall, Trinity College Dublin. This year’s awardees, comprising of 40 Trinity Sport scholars and 25 Club Academy scholars including Limerick athletes Laura…
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It was a busy weekend of action for the club members of An Brú AC. The Our Fit For Life group finished their training block and completed the 5km Parkrun in UL on Saturday. Meanwhile, Patricia Donnelly Wade and Jean Costello (Limerick Country Club) added another marathon medal to their collections. The Limerick duo ran the…
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The St Michael’s Rowing Club Urban Run will return for 2019, taking place on October 6th, sponsored by Sherry Fitzgerald, Limerick. Now in its 7th year, the 10km road-race and 5km family fun-run has previously attracted a combined five hundred runners of all ages to compete on a flat course which is ideal for PBs with…
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It was a successful weekend on the track for Limerick’s Ciara Neville in the Women’s 100 metres final at the Irish Life Health National Senior Track and Field Championships. The former Castletroy College student won in a personal best time of of 11.33 seconds, the second fastest ever time for the event. Click on the…
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Mooreabbey Milers The Irish Runner 5 Mile is in it’s 17th year and this year was the 3rd running of their new route. This year the event was part of the Athletics Ireland National Race Series. The venue was The Phoniex Park Dublin. Representing our mighty little club last Saturday morning was Willie O’Donoghue. Willie…
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Emerald AC’s Ciara Neville has been selected as part of a 16 member team that will compete at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Glasgow on March 1-3. Neville made the European grade courtesy of a second place finished at the women’s 60 metre final at the Irish Life Health National Indoor Athletics Championships in…
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Thomas Barr with UL’s Gary Ryan & Tom Comyns launch Irish Life Health partnership with Athletics Ireland Irish Life Health was announced as an official partner to Athletics Ireland, a sport that develops children’s fundamental movement skills which research has shown contributes significantly to the probability of a long-term active life by up to 20%. …
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With the undisputed success of Operation Transformation on National Television, allied with the inspirational Jean Tierney, Athletic Ireland are now offering a programme within in Athletic Clubs in Limerick called Fit4Life. Fit4Life is an Athletics Ireland programme which aims to promote Fitness through walking and running. This initiative provides an opportunity to those who wish…
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The 39th SSE Airtricity Dublin City Marathon took place last Sunday in perfect running conditions. As always it was a fantastic day with regards to the support, atmosphere and organisation of this event. Congratulation and well done to all An Brú athletes who took on this gruelling 26.2 mile challenge. After months of hard training it…
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Juveniles Xcountry Results held in Bilboa AC grounds, Cappamore, Co. Limerick last Saturday 6th of October. Great day in our 1st outing for the Cross Country championships in Bilboa.Out 1st for An Brú was Sophie O’Carroll in U10, Sophie ran fantastic and finished very strong.Next up were U12 girls of Libby Casey, Natasha Smiechowski, Ruby Collins. The…
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