Raheny Shamrock Athletic Club


Raheny Shamrock Athletic Club, founded in 1958, is an athletic club in Raheny, Dublin, Ireland, one of Ireland's oldest athletics clubs still operating and one of the most active. Athletes competing in a wide range of events and competing in every National Championship.

History

The club was founded by Paddy Boland, partly based on local traditional annual sports activities..

Honours

The club has provided four Olympic athletes, with six appearances: Dick Hooper, Pat Hooper and Paddy McGrath and Mick Clohisey at the 2016 Games..

Facilities

The club makes extensive use of quiet local roads but especially of Dublin city's second-largest municipal park, St. Anne's Park. It has a modest clubhouse in the centre of Raheny, in a former schoolhouse on the banks of the Santry River.

Colours

The club's colours are white and green. The Club's kit is a White Vest with an emerald Green Band across the chest with the word Raheny embedded. Shorts are emerald green.

Races

The Shamrocks promote 36 races a year, including: