Tag: Laois Athletics

Vicarstown was a sea of yellow on Sunday morning as local athletic club, Oughaval AC, hosted the Laois Athletics Championship Novice Road Race.  The races...

The final event of this season’s Laois Cross Country Championships will be staged this Sunday, December 17. Barrowhouse is the venue for the two feature...

Fresh from helping Ireland win bronze at the European Cross Country championships in Italy last week, Mary Mulhare was closer to home on Sunday...

This weekend will see five Laois athletes representing Ireland when they compete in the 2022 British and Irish Junior Mountain Running Championships. The event will...

The Track and Field season burst into action in a sun drenched Mary Peter’s Track in Belfast on Saturday May 14. With many St Abban's...

A number of Laois athletes excelled over the weekend at the All-Ireland Juvenile Indoor Championships. The competition was held over two days in the Technological...

Castlelyons, Fermoy was the venue for the final event of the cross country season, as the local St Nicholas AC hosted the National Masters,...

The Technological University of the Shannon, previously Athlone IT was the destination for the Lenister Juvenile Day 1 and 2 Indoor Championships. After a very...

Avondale House in Rathdrum Wicklow was the venue for last Sunday's Athletics Leinster Juvenile and Senior/U-23 Cross Country Championships. The birthplace of Charles Stewart Parnell...

All roads lead to Cappakeel in Emo on Sunday October 10 for the second day of the Laois Athletics Cross Country Championships which is...

On January 24 this year, Ray McGill passed away in the loving care of the staff of Brookhaven Nursing Home, Ballyragget in Kilkenny. Mr McGill...

Laois Athletics makes a long awaited return to competitive action this coming Sunday, September 20. Like all sporting activities, athletics has also been locked down...

With the country in lockdown, it has been an age since there has been any athletics action. But the athletics community at all levels are...

The "new kid on the block" in Laois Masters Athletics, Paddy McLoughlin, led his Laois Over-50 team to Team Gold in sun-soaked Gowran on...

This week we have something special in our 'Women in Sports' segment. The Ireland's Fittest Family final will air Sunday night at 6:30pm on RTE1,...

Mary Mulhare from Portlaoise Athletic Club claimed the Downey’s Autostop Laois senior ladies cross country title for an eighth time on Sunday morning in...

The rain cleared for a few hours to make way for fantastic racing at Sundays National Championships where Laois athletes excelled. None more so the...

The Leinster Novice (Junior & Even Ages) was held on the Bank Holiday Saturday last in Gowran, Kilkenny. Fortunately for athletes and spectators alike, it...

There's nothing like the onset of autumn on the local sporting scene to usher in the cross country athletics season. And so it was in...

All roads will lead to Emo GAA Field next Wednesday, September 25th, for the annual Downeys Suzuki Laois Athletics Primary Schools Cross Country races. This...

Laois Athletics is delighted to announce a new sponsorship partner, with Downey's Suzuki coming on board just as the cross country season is about...

Boys and girls from secondary schools all over Laois competed in the Laois secondary schools Track & Fields championships in St Abban's yesterday. They took...

The Downeys Nissan Laois Athletics Novice Road Race Championships took place in Ballyfin on Sunday. In ideal conditions, slightly cool and no rain or wind,...

Athletes, parents and supporters from all nine Athletic Clubs in the County travelled by the bus load to Nenagh at the weekend for the...

The Irish Life National Senior, Junior and Even Ages took place at the National Sports Campus recently, where a great day of racing took...

It's no secret we have a huge tradition of athletics here in Laois, and like any sport, it can result in performance debilitating injuries. Dr...

The Laois Athletics Downeys Nissan Summer Athletics league concluded on Monday evening last. There was a very enjoyable programme of events in Vicarstown. Competition was held...

The All-Ireland Juvenile Track & Field Championships take place over two weekends, and last weekend saw some great performances from the best of the...

One Emo-Rath athlete has continued to excel in the long, triple and high jumps and is earmarked for even more success in the future. Eoin...

The Leinster Athletics Track & Field championships drew to a close on Sunday evening last, and what a weekend it was for Laois Athletes. The...