from AAI website – National Track & Field League 2008
– Irish Milers Club
– Athletics Ireland Equipment Grants
– Woodie’s DIY Upcoming Track & Field Events National Track & Field League 2008
Details – Irish Milers Club
National Track & Field League 2008
Round 1 Sunday 18th May Cork I.T. & Antrim
Round 2 Sunday 15th June Santry & Tullamore
Final Saturday 27th July Tullamore
Entries close May 7th
National League 2008
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Irish Milers Club Meeting 3rd May/Sponsorship of Morton Meeting
The first Irish Milers Club race of the year will take place at 6 pm on Saturday, 3rd May in Irishtown Stadium. Kindly sponsored by NIKE, the meeting will feature a men’s 3000m, 1000m and 600m as well as a women’s 800m. The men’s 3000m is shaping up to be an excellent race with Guernsey AC’s Lee Merrien (8.02 2007) coming over for the race to face Clonliffe Harrier’s Colm Rooney and Gary O’Hanlon amongst others. The 600m should also be an excellent race with former 400m athlete and World University Games semi-finalist David Mc Carthy against the in form Conor Healy.
Entries are now been taken for the meeting which caters for all standards by emailing Garrett Coughlan ([email protected]) before Thursday night and final fields and timetables will be on the IMC website (www.irishmilersclub.com) on Friday. Due to a technical error on the IMC website, anybody who has already entered is asked to do so again by emailing Garrett directly.
The Irish Milers Club is also delighted to announce that it will be sponsoring the Junior Men’s and Women’s mile races at the inaugural Brother Ireland Morton Memorial on the 25th July (www.mortonmemorial.com). The meeting will also feature the third instalment of the IMC v BMC annual match which will take place as part of the Mile B race for men and the 3000m for women.
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Athletics Ireland Equipment Grants
Athletics Ireland has been busy informing clubs of their successful application to Athletics Ireland’s 2007 Small equipment Grants Scheme for Clubs.
Athletics Ireland received €350,000 from the Department of Art, Sports & Tourism Capital Grants programme in 2007 in order to run this equipment grants scheme for clubs. The 113 successful clubs in 24 counties have now been informed of their application success with the Clubs
Athletics Ireland sees clubs as the ‘backbone’ of the sport and feels it is very important that clubs are supported in their endeavors to provide accessible quality athletics for all. The development team continue to roll out its programmes which in the last 18months this has seen them deliver 1272 New Athletics Leaders, 616 New Level 1 Coaches, Over 2000 participants in Fit4life MeetnTrain, 256 equipment packs delivered to clubs, €350,000 additional in sports capital to clubs, 16 event specific workshops and 25 provincial squads with over 1900 athletics participating.
If you are looking for further information on your local athletics club or any programme that Athletics Ireland are running then please contact the Development Team on [email protected].
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Woodie’s DIY Upcoming Track & Field Events
Entry Forms – Timetables – Event Details
AAI Games
Senior Relay Championships
Senior and Junior Combined Events
“Juvenile Track and Field”
The Athletic Association of Ireland Team Competition for U10, U11 and U12 along with Inter Club Relays for U9 10, 11 and 12 will be held in Tullamore on 14th June 2008. Please note timetable and rules of competition
Juvenile Track and Field
