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EAA - Göteborg 2006 - Previews.
2nd August 2006: Event-by-event previews of the men's and women's track events at the European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 7-13 August are now available on click-here. more...

Doyle Earns Start in Europeans.
1st August 2006: Brian Doyle in running a 47-12 in blustery conditions at the Dublin international in Santry on Sunday confirmed his start in the 4x4 in Europeans in Goteborg next week ... This weekend on Saturday the Valley squads are off to the national league hoping to gain a spot in the final ... Kieran Carlin continued on his winning way in the Dungloe 5k and Catriona Devine won the women's section ... Currently the website is being given a facelift and webmaster Jonathan Campbell would be delighted to have your views on www.finnvalleyac.com. First cut of new website at Draft of New Website. Note this is only an outline, most of the website is not yet implemented. Comments please to jonathan [dot] campbell [at] gmail [dot] com. And many thanks to those of you who have already sent comments ... more...



Catriona Devine winning Dungloe 5k.




Teresa McGloin in Dungloe 5k.


Finn Valley Centre Fitness Suite now open.
26th July 2006: Announcement of the opening of Finn Valley Centre Fitness Suite ... more...

Success in England and Poland for Valley Athletes.
25th July 2006: Finn Valley athletes took part in various events over the weekend. Top of the list has to be Kieran McConnell second in the British championships in the shot at 16.44m ... Dominick Boner medallist at the European Masters track championships ... results ...) ... Brian O'Domhnaill 4th at Santry ... Kieran Carlin and Clodagh McCool lead Donegal Grand Prix ... more...

Big lift for Finn Valley with Strongman Championships on way.
24th July 2006: Organisers of the forthcoming Ireland's Strongest Man - which takes place in the Finn Valley Centre on August Bank Holiday weekend - hope the event can act as a springboard to Donegal eventually hosting the World Championships ... more...



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Results from Burtonport 5k 25th July.
26th July 2006: Results available from the Mizuno Burtonport 5k 25th July. more...

Event part of the Donegal Athletic Board Aladdin's Sport Store and Mizuno sponsored Donegal Athletics Board Grand Prix series ... Full series listing ...

Results from Churchill 5k 21st July.
22nd July 2006: Results available from the Mizuno Churchill 5k 21st July. more...

Event part of the Donegal Athletic Board Aladdin's Sport Store and Mizuno sponsored Donegal Athletics Board Grand Prix series ... Full series listing ...

Results from Manorcunninghan 5k 18th July.
20th July 2006: Results available from the Mizuno Manorcunningham 5k 18th July. more...

Event part of the Donegal Athletic Board Aladdin's Sport Store and Mizuno sponsored Donegal Athletics Board Grand Prix series ... Full series listing ...

Results from Lifford 5k 23rd June.
22nd July 2006:

Results available from the Mizuno Lifford 5k 23rd June. Apologies for the delay in posting this, but maybe better late than never. In fact, if you want to be sure I respond quickly to news, send directly to jonathan [dot] campbell [at] gmail [dot] com.

Small Editorial. I guess it might be a good idea to set up a separate Donegal Athletics Board website for stuff like results, and to give certain people access to that. I'm working on a couple of developments for this website, so after those get done ... maybe ... but don't hold breath! If anyone has any suggestions, comments, on any of these matters, I'd be glad to hear them. I'd be especially glad to hear from people with experience of content management systems, e.g. Joomla. On the other hand, I have always been drawn to using 'the simplest thing that can possibly work', because I believe continuity is the chief requirement; I'd like this content to be available in 100 years time, and not inaccessible or lost because I or someone else liked playing with the latest fancy technology. j.c. (webmaster).

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Event part of the Donegal Athletic Board Aladdin's Sport Store and Mizuno sponsored Donegal Athletics Board Grand Prix series ... Full series listing ...



National League success for Finn Valley.
19th July 2006: Details of last weekend's National League success for Finn Valley ... more...



Ciaran Carlin races to victory at Navan.




Teresa Mc Gloin leads.




Martin O'Halloran, Teresa Mc Gloin, Catriona Devine.




Valley 4x4. Catriona, Jodie, Clodagh, Teresa.


Ian Ward records a personal best on international debut.
18th July 2006: Ian Ward, wearing the Irish Schools vest at Falkirk, Scotland, ran a personal best of 4.01.62 to finish Peters and Millington both of England on 4.00.46 and 4.00.50 respectively ... club on target for AAI league final ... more...

Results from AAI League Round 1.
17th July 2006: Results available from AAI League Round 1 - Claremont Stadium Navan 16th July. more...

Results from Rathmullan 5k 14th July.
16th July 2006: Results available from the Mizuno Rathmullan 5k 14th July. more...

Event part of the Donegal Athletic Board Aladdin's Sport Store and Mizuno sponsored Donegal Athletics Board Grand Prix series ... Full series listing ...

Triple gold at National Juvenile Championships
11th July 2006: Finn Valley juvenile athletes did extremely well at the National Juvenile Championships in Tullamore last weekend winning 10 individual medals in the U14 to U19 age group ... more...



Finn Valley team at Tullamore.




Matthew Kelly (on left), silver medal javelin and bronze shot putt.




Shauna Guthrie (on right), silver medal 3000m walk.




Aoife Whelan (centre), gold medal 2000m walk.




Paul Doherty (centre) gold medal 100m hurdles.




Ian Ward (centre) gold medal 1500m.




Shane Bonner (left) and Michael Penrose, bronze medallists in the 3000m walk in their respective age groups.




Clive Heapes, silver medal Hammer and bronze javelin, pictured with Gerard Doherty.


Two Golds from Tullamore
4th July 2006: Two Valley athletes shone at the national junior and under 23 championships at Tullamore on Sunday ... Kieran Mc Connell won the shot with 15.14m and was second in discus at 43.70m ... Brendan Alexander cleared the 3m mark and collected gold in the vault ... more...



Brendan Alexander, winner of the national U23 pole vault with a new p.b. being congratulated by Michael Heery, president AAI.




Kieran McConnell, winner junior shot putt, with Luke Mangan, Clonliffe Harriers 2nd and Alan O'Connor, Tralee Harriers 3rd. Kieran also took 2nd place in the discus.


Results from Ballybofey 5k 24th June.
1st July 2006: Results available from the Mizuno Ballybofey 5k 24th June. more...

Event part of the Donegal Athletic Board Aladdin's Sport Store and Mizuno sponsored Donegal Athletics Board Grand Prix series ... Full series listing ...

Tailteann Gold for Ian Ward
27th June 2006: Ian Ward continued his excellent season with a victory in the Tailteann Games At Tullamore on Saturday last ... bronze medals for Paul Doherty in the hurdles and Fionnuala Bruton in the walk ... more...



Bernie Alcorn with the Irish team in Budapest.


A Rising Star for Aghyaran
26th June 2006: Michael Penrose a 15 year old Aghyaran native excelled at the recent Irish schools athletics championships, by winning the junior boys race walk in a most impressive victory at Tullamore ... more...



Michael Penrose with Athletics Ireland team manager Patsy Mc Gonagle.




Michael on his way to victory.


Results from Strabane 10k 17th June.
24th June 2006: Results from Strabane 10k available. more...

Strong performances in Ulster 14-19 championships
20th June 2006: There were a lot of very encouraging performances from the Finn Valley juveniles in the U14 to U19 age groups in Antrim on Saturday and Sunday. A top four finish in the Ulster Championships qualifies the athletes for a place in the All-Ireland Championships in Tullamore on the 8th and 9th July and as Sunday's competition finished we had 31 athletes qualified for 39 events. Eleven Gold medallists, seven Silver and five Bronze ... In the Strabane 10k Catriona McGranaghan won the women's section tackling and joined up with Noreen Bonner and Gloria Donaghy to win the team. Kieran Carlin led Valley to the mens team second place with John McGlinchey 4th and Patrick Hegarty 6th ... more...

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