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January 24, 2024

Congratulations to Joseph Aidoo who has won a national medal at the Athletics Ireland National U20 + U23 Indoor Championships in Athlone.

Joseph only moved up to 400m a few weeks ago following an impressive 4x400 relay leg at the National Indoor League. An exciting season lies in store for Joseph.

Athletics Ireland has confirmed Ciaran McGonagle will form part of a strong team of nine athletes to compete at the Anglo Celtic Plate 100k, incorporating the 100K National Championships on March 24th 2024 in Perth Scotland.

Congratulations Ciaran and congratulations to Odhrán Grimes who was in action at the National u20 and U23 championships last weekend. Odhrán ran 56.61 in the 400m.

Good luck to our athletes competing in the Raheny 5 miler this Sunday.

LAC meets Tuesday at the Danny McDaid track at 6.30pm for an interval running session, Thursday evening for a hill run at 6pm and on Sunday morning at 8am and 9am for a long run.

All runs start at the Aura. All levels catered for and encouraged.

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