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National Cross Country Championships

Galway teams excelled at the National League finals last weekend in Tullamore.

Athletics Ireland has announced a strong team for next month’s European Athletics Championships. The event will be held in Rome between June 7 to 12, and will include one Galway athlete.

On a dramatic day in Navan last Sunday, at the National Novice and Unvene Ages Cross Country championships, Craughwell athletes stole the show with a fantastic team win in the hugely competitive Men’s race over 6km. William Fitzgerald of Craughwell made it a double celebration as he raced home to a superb silver medal after always being at the front of affairs in an enthralling race won by Michael Murphy of Tullamore.

Galway athletes enjoyed great success across a host of events at the National Junior and U23 Indoor Championships in Athlone IT at the weekend.

Galway athletes will be in action this weekend with many of Europe’s top athletes descending on Abbottstown in Dublin for the European Cross-Country Championships.

Anyone that was of the opinion that Knockmore were on the slide and that the reigning champions weren't capable of holding onto their crown after losing out to Belmullet in round two, had their concerns emphatically answered after Ray Dempsey's team did a demolition job on Charlestown Sarsfields in round three in Breaffy winning, by 3-15 to 2-10.

Galway athletes secured a double gold in the 400m hurdles event on the final day of the National Junior Track and Field Championships in Santry, Dublin.