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Emma Moore of Galway City Harriers placed seventh in a competitive heat over 800m individually, and later in the championships was instrumental on the Women's 4x400m team who set a new national U23 record in their heat. The quartet of Moore, Kate O'Connell (Lucan Harriers), Victoria Amiadamen (Dooneen AC), and Jenna Breen (City of Lisburn AC) clocked a time of 3:34.81 to dip under the previous record (3:34.87) set in 2017.

Two days of the National Indoor Track and Field championships for U12s to U19s took place last weekend. Galway athletes excelled taking home multiple national medals, with notable success in the Race Walking events.

The Galway Indoor Track and Field championships took place last weekend over two days, on Saturday and Sunday 25 and 26 January.

This week, Shauna Bocquet of Craughwell AC heard the fantastic news that she was selected on the Irish team for the Paris Paralympic Games.

Four Galway athletes will compete on a 35-strong Irish team in the European U18 Championships in Slovakia, taking place this week.

A strong International Schools team is set to compete in Carmarthen Athletics Track, Wales on Saturday, July 20 in the SIAB Home Countries international.

Conor Penney of Calasanctius College and Craughwell AC was outstanding. He smashed the Tailteann Games High Jump record with a huge 2.09 metre effort. Penney leaped up to 2.05 metres clearing all heights on his first attempt, and then set the record initially by jumping over at 2.07m and added further to it when clearing 2.09m on his second attempt for an amazing victory.

Irish athlete Shauna Bocquet of Craughwell AC competed at ParAthletics 2024 in Nottwil Sport Arena, Switzerland. The event took place last weekend with Shauna partaking in four events as she chases Paralympic qualification.

Galway's senior athletes took centre stage at the National Premier League Final on Sunday.