Sophie Becker produced a scintillating performance to grab the 400 metre crown at the Irish Life Health Championships. Becker came out very strongly down the back straight and onto the bend, holding off Grainne Moynihan in the final metres to win out in 54:06 seconds to Moynihan’s 54:22. Becker becomes the first female Raheny athlete to take the national one lap crown. Becker’s gold medal was a weekend of a…
The longest running National Athletics Championships in the world, 147 years and counting. Nothing has threatened that streak in the manner Covid19 has. Two World Wars have failed to break the elastic not to mention a couple of domestic Internal skirmishes circa 100 years ago. Originally slated to happen in late June to facilitate the Tokyo Olympics, re-arranged for this coming weekend, the final product being amended to behind closed…
Raheny Shamrock Athletic Club note the announcement by An Taoiseach Micheal Martin regarding Sport activites. As such Raheny Shamrock Athletic Club Covid-19 safety officer Pat Hooper has issued the following update for club training effective immediately. These new guidelines run from August 19 until midnight September 13th 2020. The club is closed for those who have been out of the country in the last 14 days The club is closed…
Following the governments announcement, Raheny Shamrock Athletic Club have postponed Round Six of the 2020 Lord Mayor Of Raheny Series. Further details will be announced in due course as we await guidance from Athletics Ireland and Sport Ireland.