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National Juvenile Indoors 2025
Some great results from Athlone at the All Ireland Indoors at the end of March. U13 , Chelsea Malejeva came sixth in shot put and Bobby Weekes competed in 60m hurdles heats. U14 – Silver for Lavr Malejeva in shot put. Adas Andrijauskas also competed and threw well. Eva McMahon, 7th in 800m heats. Caitlin Garvey competed in U14 1k walk but was unfortunately disqualified near the finish line, but was in contention for bronze for most of the race U15 – Jay Collins won the 60m hurdle and finished nearly a second ahead of silver position and also came fourth in 60m sprint final. Gyte Andrijauskaite won silver in…
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2025 County 4-Mile Road Championship
A Fantastic Day for Dooneen AC! Huge congratulations to everyone who competed in the county championship 4 mile today—what a day for the club! A big thank you to Kilmallock AC for hosting a great event. We had some incredible performances, including: Alan McCutcheon – Novice Individual Champion Cian Aherne – 2nd in Novice Novice Men’s Team – Winners. In the ladies’ races: Sinéad McDermot – 2nd overall Senior Ladies’ Team – Winners Novice Ladies’ Team – 2nd Place In the masters’ categories: Ann MacPhail – 1st O/50 Joe Chawke – 1st O/60 O/40 Ladies’ Team – Winners Brilliant performances all around—well done to everyone!
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2025 Munster U12-14 Indoor Championships
The 2025 Munster Indoor Championships are now complete with the second weekend in Nenagh. Starting the weekend off were the hurdles and in Girls U14 was Faye Cusack, followed by Sophie Sherlock and Clara Mooney in U12. Clara made the semi-final and Sophie made the final. In the U13 Hurdles Lucy O’Donnell made the semi-final. In Boys U13 Hurdles Bobby Weekes and Milo Liddy-McDonagh both made the final, with Bobby finishing 2nd and Milo coming 8th. Girls U14 800m Lara O’Regan ran in heat 2 alongside the eventual overall winner while Eva McMahon ran heat 4 winning this heat and finishing 2nd overall. Caitlin Garvey won the girls U14 1000m…
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2025 Munster Indoor U15-U19 Championships
Last weekend saw the Munster Indoor track and field season start at Nenagh Olympic Stadium. Over the weekend athletes from all over Munster turned out to compete for medals and qualification to the National Indoor Championships in March. Siun Galvin was first up for Dooneen on Saturday in the U15 Girls 60m hurdles. Isbéal Ni Huigín competed in the U16 Girls 200m and came 2nd, splitting the 1st and 3rd that had both run in the first heat and finishing over 1 second ahead of the 2nd place in her heat. Destiny Lawal won the Girls U17 200m sprint by half a second, with Niamh Hynes being the next…
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2025 Limerick Indoors
The Indoor Track and Field championships took place on Sunday the 12th in Nenagh. After a week of snow and freezing conditions, the temperature got up enough to go ahead with the championships, and the competition was hot too. First off, it was a very special Birthday for one very special coach. Some action and awards from all of our fantastic young athletes below with a video of the overall action from our Munster RDO, Olivia Scully Hahne.
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Wrapping Up The 2024 Season
As 2024 comes to a close, these are some of the recent highlights from the club in Munster and National Cross Country, and other International Events. Well done to Caitlin Garvey who competed in the International race walking event, incorporating National Championships in Dublin today. Caitlin finished in top ten of Irish girls in U14 2k race and achieved a personal best!! Spraoi Games with Dooneen AC Little Athletics group. 24 5-7 year olds have been active for the past 8 weeks. Big thanks to club coaches and teen leaders who assisted this morning. A great introduction to Run Jump Throw games for kids to find what they like…
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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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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.
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2023 Limerick Cross Country Day 2
Testing conditions today for the senior xcountry championships with a downpour just as events started making underfoot conditions challenging. Congratulations to Sinéad McDermott on winning the women’s county senior cross country in Newcastlewest today. Congratulations also to our senior men of David Secchi,Kevin Johnson,Mpho Chauke,Dermot Kearns,Andrew McMahon and Joe Chawke on winning team silver. Well done guys. A huge thank you to West Limerick AC, the county board and all involved in hosting this event in the fabulous new course of the showgrounds. The U10 girls of Zoe Casey O’Shea, Clara Mooney and Izabella Benka started the day’s races just before the rain began, and in the boy’s race we…
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2023 Limerick Cross Country Day 1
Day 1 of the 2023 Limerick County Cross Country was uneven-age relays and the Intermediate men and women. First up were our U9 girls of Izabelle Berka, Emma Morrissey, Ali Bourke and Lily Conway who came home in 4th in their first competition. Next up were the boys of James O’Donnell, Cian Harte, Caleb Cusack and Dougie Silke who came home in an amazing 4th place. We had two teams in the girls U11 Faye Hallinan, Clara Mooney, Ella Harte, Blanka deviet, Kiera Dillon, Ruth Cregan, Freya Collins and Zoe Casey O’Shea. These girls ran their hearts out and just missed out on the medals. Boys u11 were Luke Hays,…
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