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AFTER a new beginning earlier in 2024, Shannon Athletics Club now has over 200 members and its facilities have been improved, with further developments on the way. Club Chairperson Eamonn Cleary said it has been a great start for the re-formed club. “We’re up to 201 members, which is remarkable,” he said. “We started off with a very optimistic target of reaching 200 by the end of the year, which is a fairly large number, it makes us a fairly big club. “Within nine months we hit it, and it’s absolutely amazing to see how many people are interested in it. Hopefully it grows even further from there.” He said that talks on getting the club going started late last year, before really getting into gear in early 2024. “We had a meeting to kick it off at the end of last October,” he said. “We had a good bit of work to do to get up and running again …
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