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Archive News from 2014 |
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Dec 16th 2014: Merry Christmas Tonight is the last night of training for the year. On behalf of the coaches and committee we would like to wish all our members a very merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Training will resume on Tuesday 6th January. |
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Dec 15th 2014: Club Championships Well done to everyone who turned up yesterday for the club championships. There were some great races and congrats to our new club champions. Full results here. Photos to follow. |
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Nov 25th 2014: Presentation Night and Club Championships The presentation of trophies to athletes who competed in the County League over the summer is on Saturday Dec 13th at 7:30pm in the old boys primary school P.E. hall in Kildare. |
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Nov 19th 2014: Dates for the Diary Fri Nov 21st—Celebration of past winners of county senior cross country title—Aras Bríd Kildare. All welcome—kicks off at 7:30pm Sat Dec 13th 2014—County Development Day at Athlone IT Sat Jan 24th 2015—County Indoor Championships at Athlone IT 11am –3pm (Ages to follow) |
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Nov 5th 2014: All-Ireland Even Ages Cross Country The All-Ireland Even Ages Cross Country championships takes place in Dundalk IT this coming Sunday. We will be well represented by our Boys U/18 team of John Fitzsimons, Andrew O’Brien, Loic Deugan and Robert Hewson. Best of luck. |
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Nov 5th 2014: Leinster Uneven Ages Cross Country The Leinster Uneven Ages Cross Country championships takes place this Sunday in Adamstown, Co. Wexford. We have 14 athletes competing in total including 1 club team and 6 runners representing the county teams. Boys U/11 - Hugh Hamilton, Ben Curran, Aedan Kelly, Cathal Thompson, Fayo Adeogun & Henry O'Sullivan: Boys U/13: Peter Hamilton & Cameron Hughes: Boys U/15 - Tadhg Murtagh & Eoin O'Connor: Boys U/17 - John Fitzsimons: Boys u/19 - Andrew O'Brien & Robert Hewson: Girls U/15: Lara Curran. Best of luck to all. |
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Nov 3rd 2014: Leinster Even Ages Cross Country Congratulations to our Boys U/18s (John Fitzsimons, Andrew O’Brien, Loic Deugan and Robert Hewson) who took club silver medals at the Leinster Cross Country Championships last weekend. John, Andrew and Loic also won bronze medals as part of the county team who came 3rd. The lads will now go forward to the All-Ireland in Dundalk at the end of the month. |
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Oct 23rd 2014: Leinster Even Ages Cross Country The Leinster even ages cross country takes place this Sunday near Rathdrum Co. Wicklow. For the first time in many years we have a Boys U/18 team representing the club. John Fitzsimons, Andrew O’Brien, Loic Deugan and Robert Hewson will also be part of the county team on the day. Our other competitor is county champion Peter Hamilton who goes in the Boys U/12. Best of luck to all. |
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Oct 13th 2014: County Cross Country Wrap-up The second day of the county cross country took place on the Curragh on Sunday hosted by ourselves. Over the two weekends there were many great performances from all our young athletes with John Fitzsimons, Andrew O’Brien, Robert Hewson and Peter Hamilton claiming individual medals and our U/11 boys and U/18 boys claiming team medals. Added to that we had another handful who finished in the top 10 meaning they will be eligible for the county teams at the Leinsters later this month and early November. |
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Sept 29th 2014: Cross Country The 2014 cross country season kicks off next Sunday with the even ages county championships in Suncroft at 12pm. That is followed by the odd ages county championship on Sunday 12th October hosted by ourselves on the edge of the Curragh opposite Kildare Town Soccer Club. The list of events are here. |
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Sept 17th 2014: Juvenile League—Final Round The 2014 Juvenile League was completed in brilliant sunshine at Le Chéile on Sunday and well done to all our young athletes who turned out in force for the final push. We are still awaiting the final club results. Congrats to our individual winners in section B Cameron Hughes It is now all go for the cross country season which kicks off on Oct 5th in Suncroft with even ages events followed the week after by the odd age events in Kildare (beside Kildare Town Soccer Club). The race distances have yet to be confirmed |
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Sept 12th 2014: Juvenile League—Final Round The last round of the Juvenile League takes place this Saturday at 12pm in Leixlip. Hope we have big turnout so we can finish as high up as possible. Remember you must compete in both events on the day to get points for the club. |
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Sept 4th 2014: Dates for the Diary Sat Sept 6th — Funday in St. Brigid’s Park Sat Sept 13th — Final round of the Juvenile League in Leixlip Sun Oct 5th — Even Ages County Cross Country in Suncroft Sun Oct 12th — Odd Ages County Cross Country in Kildare |
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Aug 29th 2014: St. Brigid’s Park Funday Remember the St. Brigid’s Park Funday is on Sat Sept. 6th. It is run in conjunction with Kildare Scouts and Round Towers. Remember to drop any spot prizes etc to the coaches at training and if you can help out on the day please let them know. |
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Aug 11th 2014: Training Resumes Training resumes tomorrow evening at 6pm. |
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Jul 7th 2014: Summer Break We will take a well earned break from training after tomorrow evening, We will resume on Tuesday 12th August.. Best of luck to our competitors in the All-Ireland events in July. At the U/23 and Junior All-Irelands Michael Kenny took bronze in the U23 Shot Putt and Discus and took gold in the Weight for Distance 35lb. John Fitzsimons made the final of the Junior 800m. |
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Jun 30th 2014: Leinster Juvenile Track and Field We had seven competitors over Saturday and Sunday in Tullamore for the Leinster Track and Field Championships, with some competing at this level for the first time. Well done to all who took part in very completive events. John Fitzsimons completed a double in the 400m and 800m individual and also won gold in the U/17 inter-county relay. He completed the weekend with silver in the long jump. Tadhg Murtagh, Aaron Jacob and Eoin O’Connor were three of the four members of the boys U/15 inter-county relay team which took silver. Well done to all again. Some photos here. |
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Jun 30th 2014: Community Games Finals The diversity of the membership of the club was on display in force at the community games finals last Wednesday and Thursday evening when we can competitors from 5 different areas. There were individual medals for Eoin O’Connor, Sophie Sadlier, Caoimhe Byrne, Ben Curran, Peter Hamilton and 3 club members (Aaron Jacob, Lara Curran and Mary Hamilton) will represent the county at Athlone in the National Finals of the U/15 mixed relay event. |
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Jun 23rd 2014: 10Km Juvenile Relay It was a glorious day for our inaugural 10km Juvenile Relay on Sunday and over fifty young athletes turned out to proudly represent our club as part of the “Pride of Club Showpiece” run in conjunction with Kildare Derby Festival. The relay was led off by Darragh Hayes just before 3:30pm and to the surprise of most of the adults the relay was complete in an astonishing 36 minutes and 12 seconds. Jennifer Wallace took the baton for the last lap, heading the 50 other participants and providing a great sight of the red singlets spread over 50 meters around the track. In between our oldest to our youngest members ran the 200 meters of their lives with breath taking speed. The committee would like to thank all the kids who took part and all the adults for their attendance and their encouragement. Second to the participation was the small matter of “guess the time” which was shared between two—Paul Madsen and Brian Walsh who got within 3 seconds guessing 36:15. Special thanks to Kildare Town Soccer Club for accommodating us on the day and Kildare Farm Foods for the vital bottles of water for the kids. The lap-by-lap breakdown is available here. Photos of the day are here. On Saturday, John Fitzsimons took silver in the 400m at the Tailteann Schools Interprovincial Games in Santry. |
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Jun 18th 2014: 10Km Juvenile Relay This coming Sunday we have our inaugural 10K juvenile relay. This is being held as part of the “Pride of Club Showpiece” at Kildare Town Soccer Club grounds after the Derby Festival Parade. The relay will consist of 50 laps of 200m each with our juvenile members running one or more laps each. The plan is to kick-off at 3pm or shortly afterwards so we would love a big turnout of all our members and friends to cheer the kids on. We will be using the club singlets for the relay but please wear your club gear if possible .. Hopefully the weather will be too nice for hoodies !!. Looking forward to seeing you all there. If you have sponsorship money please bring it to training on Thursday or to the event on Sunday— Note: you do not need to have collected sponsorship to take part in the relay |
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Jun 17th 2014: Weekend Action There was plenty of events to keep us busy over the weekend On Saturday Tadhg Murtagh was 3rd in the Leinster Combined Events held in Drogheda. Closer to home the County Intermediate and Master Championships were held in Leixlip where we had winners in both masters, intermediate and relay events (Full results to follow). On Sunday the county throws and B Championships took place in Crookstown. There was medals for Mick and Michael Kenny in the masters and senior events while newcomers Lara Curran and Tadhg Murtagh narrowly missed out on medals in the U/15 Javelin events. Look out next year when we will ramp up our juvenile training in the discus and javelin. There were plenty of great performances in the juvenile Bs and although the full results are not yet available we had medal winners in Ella Moore, Fayo Adeogun, Kate McCarthy amd Sarah Fitzsimons among others. |
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Jun 9th 2014: Results A busy few weekends for some of our athletes. On Saturday 31st May John Fitzsimons came second in the All-Ireland Schools 400m on Saturday last.. On Sunday June 1st it was the turn of the seniors and masters in the Leinsters. Johnny Fitzsimons came third in the O50 400m and fourth in the 800m. Mick Kenny won gold in the O55 discus and bronze in the WOF while in the senior events Michael Kenny took gold in the discus and WOF. On Monday June 2nd it was the younger athletes turn where we had a team in the U/11 Leinsters. Last Sunday we had the Leinster Pairs and U/12-U13 championships. Peter Hamilton took silver in the U/13 600m while Cathal and Fayo won a medal in the U/11 pairs. Cathal and Aedan went on to take a medal with the U/11 county relay team—Well done to all who took part. Photo’s are here.
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May 28th 2014: County Juvenile League—Round 3 Summer finally arrived in Crookstown last night as we had a record number of athletes competing in the juvenile league. Well over forty kids travelled the short journey and took part in a great evenings athletics. Thanks to all the parents and kids for the big effort and hopefully we have closed the gap on the top two ahead of the last round. Next up will be the Leinster track and field competitions which will be held over the next month. For those who did not win medals at the recent county championships there will be a further competition in Crookstown on Sunday June 15th at 2pm. |
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May 26th 2014: Leinster Relays and Junior We had mix fortunes in Greystones at the weekend. John Fitzsimons continued his good form this year with gold in the Junior mens 800m and silver in the Junior mens 400m. Our boys U/11 relay team failed to hold on to their title from last year and were very unlucky to just miss out on the medals when they finished fourth in the final. Next up is the juvenile league on Tues at 7pm in Crookstown |
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May 15th 2014: Fixtures Update The third round of the juvenile league will take place in Crookstown on Tuesday May 27th at 7pm. We are currently third in section B on 698 points, 44 points behind the leaders Le Cheile [742], 26 points behind Crookstown [724] in second and 36 points ahead of Eire Óg [662]. The Intermediate and Masters County championships take place in Leixlip at 2pm on Sat 14th June. The County B Championships and the county throwing competitions take place the day after in Crookstown. |
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May 12th 2014: County Championships—Day 2 The second day of the juvenile county track and field championships took place in Celbridge on Sunday last and the club had another very successful day out. Gold medals were won by John Fitzsimons (Junior 400m), Peter Hamilton (U12 600m) and Cathal Thompson (U/11 80m), Silver medals went to Eoin O’Connor (U/16 1500m), Ben Curran (U/10 80m, U/10 Turbo Jav), Eoin Connolly (U/9 Long Jump) and the Boys U/10 relay team (Liam Kelly, Daniel Connolly, Tadhg O’Connor, Ben Curran). A bronze medal was won by Tadhg Murtagh (U/15 Hurdles) . Pictures from the day are here and full results on the Results page. |
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May 5th 2014: County Championships—Day 1 The first day of the county track and field championships took place in Leixlip on Sunday and the club had a very successful day. Éadaoin Murtagh won gold in the girls u/12 shot putt. There were silver medals for Sarah Fitzsimons (U/14 shot), Ben Curran (U/10 100m), Peter Hamilton (U/12 200m) and bronze medals for Ben Vince (U/10 100m and long jump), Cathal Thompson (U/11 200m), Eoin O’Connor (U/15 high jump and U/16 Shot putt), Matthew Doyle (U/17 Walk) and Keila Moore (U/10 80m). Congratulations to all and to everyone that took part. Next Sunday is day 2 of the county championships in Celbridge. |
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Apr 29th 2014: Juvenile County Championships The county championships take place on the next two Sundays in Leixlip and Celbridge. County rules stipulate that each club can only have a limited number of athletes in the field events, 4 for U/9 and 3 for U/10 to U18. Where necessary there will be trials at training this week. Kick-off time is 11am each Sunday so we will meet at 10:30am for warm-up. |
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Apr 16th 2014: Crookstown Open Sports A small dedicated team travelled to Crookstown on Sunday last for their annual open sports and came away with a fair share of the spoils. Medals were won by Keela Moore, Ben Curran, Ben Vince, Cathal Thompson and Eoin O’Connor. Well done also to Aoife and Ciara Buckley and Aoife Thompson who were unlucky not to medal after making their respective finals. Full results here. Next up is the second round of the league in Leixlip on Tuesday next. |
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Apr 14th 2014: County Juvenile League The second round of the County Juvenile League will take place in Leixlip on Tuesday 22nd April at 7pm. After a great turn-out for the first day we hope to have another big attendance. |
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Apr 9th 2014: Juvenile Updates Well done to everyone who turned out last Saturday for the first round of the county league. It was great (especially for our younger members) to compete on a top-class tartan track—I’m sure there was a huge improvement in times and PBs. We should have the club total results soon. There is a busy few weeks ahead kicking off with the Crookstown Open Sports on Sunday which is always a good day out. Although not an official club outing, there will be club singlets available on the day of you’d like to travel. The two juvenile county championship days are the first two Sundays in May. As there are limits on the numbers the club can enter in some of the events there may be some internal club qualification competitions over the next few weeks. Please ensure your membership is paid as only paid up members can compete in the championships. |
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Mar 25th 2014: County Juvenile League The first round of the County Juvenile League will take place in Leixlip on Saturday 5th April—2pm kick-off. |
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Mar 24th 2014: All-Ireland Juvenile Indoors John Fitzsimons took the bronze medal in the Boys U/17 800m with a time of 1:59:11 in Athlone at the All-Ireland Indoor finals. |
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Mar 19th 2014: Recent Success Congratulations to Liz Foy on winning the recent County Masters Road Race and John Fitzsimons on his silver medal at the Leinster Indoors. |
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Mar 6th 2014: Leinster Juvenile Indoors Best of luck to all our competitors, particularly our first timers, in the Leinster Juvenile Indoors this coming weekend. |
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Feb 26th 2014: County Road Races The dates for the County Senior, Masters, Intermediate and Novice races have been agreed. See Fixtures page for the list. |
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Feb 5th 2014: Training Update Due to the current bad weather there will be no further training planned until next Tuesday 11th February. |
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Feb 1st 2014: Leinster Indoors—Day 1 No medals but plenty of experience gained from Athlone on Saturday. Our young U/12 girls relay team (Éadaoin Murtagh, Aoife and Ciara Buckley, Rebecca Roche, Riona O’Connor) competing for the first time together ran a brilliant heat but failed to advance to the final. The boys U/14 team (Tadhg Murtagh, Aaron Jacob, Daniel Cunningham, Eoin O’Connor) fell foul of a lane infringement and failed to make the final. In the individual events Sarah Fitzsimons, Tadhg Murtagh and Daniel Cunningham ran great heats but didn’t advance. Eoin O’Connor made it to the final of the 800m but missed out on a medal placing. Well done to all. |
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Jan 27th 2014: AAI Indoors We had two medal winners at the AAI indoors at the weekend—Johnny Fitzsimons took bronze in the Masters M4 800m on Saturday and Michael Kenny took silver in the U23 35lb for distance throwing on Sunday. |
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Jan 21st 2014: Membership Please note that membership for 2014 is now due. The coaches will have registration forms at training each Tues/Thurs/Sun or can be downloaded here. |
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Jan 14th 2014: All-Ireland Combined Events Congratulations to John Fitzsimons who took bronze in the M50 masters indoor combined events at the weekend. |
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Jan 8th 2014: Club Meeting next week All parents and members over 18 are invited to a meeting to discuss the clubs plan for the year and the future direction of the club next Monday 13th January in Áras Bríd at 8:30pm. |
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Jan 6th 2014: Happy New Year Happy New Year to all. Training resumes tomorrow evening at 6pm in the park—see you all there! |
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Dec 20th 2013: Happy Christmas Wishing all our members and their families a very Merry Christmas. |
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Dec 16th 2013: All-Ireland Cross Country We had 2 competitors in Waterford at the weekend. Peter Hamilton was unlucky to miss out on a medal coming 14th in the Boys U/11 and Sarah Fitzsimons (girls u/13) was a scoring member of the Kildare County team which were outside the medals. In the even ages All Ireland in Santry in November John Fitzsimons was 19th in the boys u/16. |
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Dec 11th 2013: Christmas Break End of another year. The last day of training for this year will be Thursday 12th Dec and we will resume on Tuesday January 7th. The committee and coaches would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. See you in January. |
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