The first round of the National Leagues will be held in Tullamore next Sunday, 18th May.  All athletes should confirm their availability to the team captains Katey Byrd and Darren O’Donovan in advance. The team bus will leave Merchants Quay at 7:00am. Supporters are also welcome on the bus.
Timetable and Team Groupings

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Day two of the County Juvenile Championships were held at the CIT, in perfect conditions. Leevale athletes turned out in strength and continued where they had left off on the previous Sunday.
Over the two days a number of athletes deserve special mention. Eric Stam won eight gold medals and one silver across the [...]

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CIT hosted the Munster Junior & U23 championships on May Bank Holiday Monday, 5th May. This was an excellent meet with four athletes achieving the qualifying times for the World Juniors. Leevale athletes were alos putting down markers for the year. Chris Murnane ran an excellent 400m Hurdles winning the race while taking over a [...]

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The outdoor track and field season really got underway at the CIT  over the weekend with Leevale athletes participating in the South Munster  Schools on Saturday, County Juvenile Championships on Sunday and the Munster Junior & U23 Championships on Monday. Due to the congestion of fixtures many of Leevale’s older juvenile athletes understandably opted to skip the county [...]

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By Donal   
Leevale athletes had a disappointing second weekend at the AAI indoor championships. Kate Humphries was the only athlete to secure an individual medal on the track by taking third place in the girls Under 17 200m. David Quilligan recorded a jump of 6.67m to comfortably win the Boys U19 long Jump.  Paul Scanlan an [...]

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Leevale athletes travelled to Nenagh over the weekend to compete in the first two days of AAI Juvenile Indoor Championships. The level of competition was high and medals were hard come by.           
The under 17 60m hurdles was a thrilling affair with Leevale clubmates Patrick Maher and Edmond O’Halloran involved in one of the closest finishes [...]

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By Frank
Three Leevale athletes took part in this competition and were accompanied by four supporters.  All three had to complete a pentathlon. The combined events in the UK are possibly the strongest in Europe, so competing at this level was both inspirational and intimidating. For an athletes’ impression please check “The Real Athletic Experience” (Below). [...]

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By April & Jennifer 
On Friday the 7th of March we flew into East Midlands airport and drove from the airport to Sheffield but stopped in Nottingham on our way. We went shopping and the boys went looking for Robin Hood (comment boys: we first went to Pizza Hut and ate loads from the unrestricted buffet, then [...]

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The Munster U15-U19 Indoor championships were held in Nenagh on March 2nd & 3rd. Leevale were missing a number of athletes due to injury and this was evident in the fact we were not able to field competitive relays in many age groups. However the athletes who did compete fared well.  Kate Humphries ran well in [...]

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