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From far away fields to the home of running in Sligo – Calry!

AFTER my return from South Africa on Friday it was straight into domestic athletics on Saturday morning. And what better place to start than the home of athletics in Sligo, namely Calry.  more >

Race walkers put in the hard yards at training camp in South Africa

IT WAS day five on our training camp in Johannesburg at 1800 metres above sea level. The temperature was 32 degrees.  more >

Dunleavy and Cullen deserve to be honoured at awards night

TWO an a half weeks in the sunshine in Johannesburg at 1800 metres altitude has, once again, given me an insight of how hard our élite athletes train.  more >

Dunleavy shows ‘guts’ to take a bronze indoors at the Odyssey

WITH just 900 metres to go in the 3,000 metres men’s race at the Woodies AAI Senior Indoor Championships at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast on Saturday evening, Sligo AC athlete Emmett Dunleavy seemed to have no chance of winning any kind of medal.  more >

Belfast venue offers suitable arena for indoor competitions

THE availability of the magnificent Odyssey Arena in Belfast for the past few years has given Athletics Ireland’s Senior Indoor Championships a huge boost.  more >

Cullen bounces back with storming Antrim display

WRITING in these pages after the European Cross Country Championships in December I said that Mary Cullen was a better athlete than race winner Hayley Yelling (now Hayley YellingHigham).  more >

Cullen will run in a strong field at international race inAntrim

THE IAAF Antrim International Cross Country & Celtic Games which takes place on Saturday next in Greenmount campus, Antrim, this year takes on added significance.  more >

Only weak ‘athletes’ stay on treadmills

SNOW, cold biting winds, freezing fog. We have had it all over the past three weeks. How are athletes bearing up to those conditions?  more >

Santa Fun Run brings festive cheer to Sligo!

THE snow-covered roof tops, the slushy under-foot conditions, the howling biting northern breeze was the perfect setting for Sligo’s first ever Great Santa Fun Run which took place last Sunday morning.  more >

National event in Coleraine turned out to be a real shambles

WE went north on Sunday last to the AAI Novice & Juvenile (Uneven ages) Cross Country Championships in Coleraine, County Derry. What a controversial championships they turned out to be with at least two races declared null and void due to false starts and other races that a lot of people were unhappy with - but the results were allowed to stand.  more >