Co Louth strongly represented at Athletics Congress

COUNTY Louth was strongly represented at the recent biennial Athletics Ireland Congress in Carrick-on-Shannon where Georgina Drumm of Mountpleasant AC was re-elected unopposed as President and will now serve for a second two-year term.

Dunleer AC’s Fintan Reilly was elected to the national governing body’s High Performance committee and Coaching & Development committee, while Ciaran Doyle of Drogheda & District AC was elected to the Juvenile committee.

Simon Allen (North East Runners), Dermot Barry (Glenmore AC), Pat Cheshire (Dunleer AC), Christian Maas (St Gerard’s AC), Kathleen McConnell (St Peter’s AC), Tom McGrane (St Peter’s AC), Deirdre McTeggart (Boyne AC), Catherine Muckian (Dundealgan AC) and Micheal Mulligan (Dunleer AC) were also in attendance at the Congress as delegates.

The Wee County had one motion on the agenda and this was passed unanimously. As a result of this successful motion, U-12 and U-13 teams will now run a 4x200m rather than a 4x100m relay in indoor championship competition.

A County Louth amendment to a County Kilkenny motion also met with unanimous approval from the delegates, who numbered almost 200 in total. This means that the newly introduced women’s weight for distance event will now be on the programme for U-23 athletes, as well as for the U-20, Senior and Masters age groups as originally proposed.