More medals for Clare competitors

The national Community Games finals concluded at Athlone IT at the weekend and there was again great success for Clare competitors, returning with a haul of 36, six gold medals, five silver, eight bronze and 17 fourth place awards.

The national Community Games finals concluded at Athlone IT at the weekend and there was again great success for Clare competitors, returning with a haul of 36, six gold medals, five silver, eight bronze and 17 fourth place awards.
Brilliant sunshine was the order of the day in track and field, relays and rounders. The first Clare medal of the weekend was won by Tulla’s Grace Moloney when she captured bronze in the ball throw.  It was Sunday afternoon when gold was won by the Ennis St John’s U-10 mixed relay team of Chiby Okoye, Gabriel Kehinde, Emer Nelson, Ailbhe Doherty, Amidat Karimy and Lase Akeyinka. Deirbhile Ryan from Clonlara won silver in the U-14 shot putt. Gearóid McMahon from Newmarket was a silver medal winner in the U-13 walk while the girls U-16 marathon team of Siobhan Nestor and Róisín Considine of Ennistymon-Lahinch-Liscannor and Laura Power from Doora-Barefield also won silver.
Clare also won bronze medals in the U-12 100m through Tony Odubote from Ennis St John’s and the Ennis U-12 boys relay team of Farouk, Sobayo, MosesIwalewa, Tony Odubote, Manus Doherty, Brian Haran and Basit Bakereoya.
The fourth place medal winners were Chantel Bourke from Kilrush in the U-12 100m, Lase Adeyinka from Ennis St John’s in the U-10 200m, Angharad Loughnane from Kilkishen-O’Callaghan’s ­Mills-Oatfield in the U-13 90m walk, Kaderi Karimu from Ennis St John’s in the U-14 80m hurdles, Jason Keehan from Killanena-Flagmount in the U-14 shot putt, Eoin Hanrahan from Doora-Barefield in the U-16 discus and the Sixmilebridge-Kilmurry U-13 rounders team of Ronan Tuohy, Cian McInerney, Eanna Chaplin, Paul Corry, Conor Hassett, Eric Purcell, Ethan Slater, Gavin Fawl, Jake Dineen, Oisin Fitzpatrick and Gavin McGonagle. All but one of the Clare relay teams qualified for semi-final action with three going through to the finals.
sMany individual competitors also got through to finals of their events, losing out narrowly in their challenge to be in the medal winners.

‘An extremely successful year’

As another Community Games year draws to a close, the 2011 season was labelled “an extremely successful one” by Clare executive public relations officer, Mary Phelan.
A large number of Banner County competitors were amongst the winners as the national finals drew to a close in Athlone at the weekend.
Attention now turns to the end of season all-star awards dance, to be held in mid October, where up to 70 awards will be presented.
This has been one of the highlights of the Community Games calendar over the past decade and other county committees have copied Clare in organising a similar event.
“From October onwards, areas across the county will be organising their annual general meetings while the Clare committee will also hold its AGM. Then in November, the annual Keep Clare Clear poster competition will be promoted and this will bring us to the end of the year,” explained Ms Phelan.
The national committee annual meeting will be hosted by Limerick in early 2012, after which it will be full steam ahead for another season of competition.