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Michal Rejmer 10 mile 2025 open for entries
Exciting news!!! Registration for the Dooneen 10mile in memory of Michal Rejmer is now open for a bargain early bird price of €20!! See link below to register (or in our IG bio). With a fabulous setting of Limerick Racecourse and with our sponsors HOMS Assist, the 10mile run takes place on Sunday 13th April at 11am. For 2025, there are even more prizes!! As well individual prizes and a corporate team prize (teams of 4 min of 1 female), this year there’ll be a relay team prize with teams of 2 runners with a 4mile and 6mile leg (entry for the relay is €15 pp-early bird). The event is chipped timed with all…
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Dooneen Little Athletics – Winter 2024 Session
Dooneen Little Athletics is back on Sunday mornings 9-10am in Vartry Field, Raheen. The aim is to get 5-7 year olds active using games based on fundamental movements. This year coach Rosie is joined by our middle distance teen assistants Ivana O’Carroll and Sophia Meaney who make the sessions fun and inclusive for all the children. Transition year provides an opportunity to gain experience in leadership and we are delighted they volunteered their time to bring along the younger age group in Athletics. Parents have the opportunity to walk or run the 400m field loop or local area while children get active with Rosie, Ivana and Sophia. Each week there…
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Little Athletics Training
Little Athletics training, starting Sun 20th for 8-9 wks, finishing Dec 15th latest, depending on weather may finish Dec 8th. Open for 5-7 year olds. Takes place in Vartry Field on Mulcair Road on Sunday morning at 9-10AM. New applicants must join using the Little Athletics option.
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2024 Limerick Cross Country Day 2 (Newcastle West)
A wet day in Newcastlewest yesterday at the cross country. That didn’t stop our young juvenile athletes from running the length and breadth of four muddy and wet fields! Lots of medals too, full results will be posted, but here are some photos to enjoy! Thanks to Aileen Moore for taking many of these wonderful photos
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2024 Limerick Cross Country Day 1 (Bilboa)
A great day of running today at Bilboa AC, the uneven County Championships. Lots of Dooneen AC juveniles took part, plenty medals and smiles at the start/finish line. Well done to all the Dooneen athletes who took part, many running cross country for the first time. Next Cross Country event is in Newcastlewest on Sunday Sept 29th.
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HEROutdoors Campaign
Club members, parents and friends are taking part this year in the national active outdoors initiative aimed at boosting participation by girls and women in outdoor fitness of all kinds. Thanks to Athletics Ireland for supporting this joint Dooneen and Limerick AC activity through the HEROutdoors campaign fund. The 3-session format is group warm-up to music, mobility and stretching followed by paired stations for a circuit utilising the outdoor gym equipment in Mungret Park. At this time of year, base fitness building with a focus on running is ideal for beginners and our teenaged athletes. Paul Askins captured some of the activity sections to show the variety within the session…
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Munster U9-U11 Indoor Championships
Under 9 to 11 Munster Indoor championships were held in Nenagh on Sunday, March 10th. Competition was fierce this year with very high entries into all events. U11 girls had 10 heats in the 600m and 14 heats in the 60m sprint while there were as much as 100 in several age groups on long jump. All participants received a special certificate of achievement which we presented to those that braved the wet weather on Monday evening in The Comp, plus an extra early Easter gift from the club in recognition of their performance. Katelyn also received her first Munster medal in the 1km walk.
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2024 Limerick County Indoors
Photos from the action on track in Nenagh today at the Limerick County Indoor Track and Field championships for 2024.
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2024 Limerick County Indoor T&F Hurdles
A little compilation of the hurdles from today in Nenagh.
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2023 Limerick Cross Country Day 3
Conditions for running couldn’t be bette or in more stark contract to last weekend’s competition with sunshine and lolipops all ronnd in Bilboa for the third and final day of county championships for this year.