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.
The club was founded by Paddy Boland, partly based on local traditional annual sports activities..
National Senior Cross Country Champions Men - 2016
National Senior Cross Country Champions Women - 1968, 1971, 2013
National Road Relay Champions Men - 2001, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2016
National Road Relay Champions Women - 1995, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010
The club has provided four Olympic athletes, with six appearances: Dick Hooper (1980, 1984, 1988), Pat Hooper (1980) and Paddy McGrath (2000) and Mick Clohisey at the 2016 Games..
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.
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.
The Shamrocks promote 36 races a year, including:
Raheny 5 Mile Road Race - Last Sunday of January each year, a major national event, starting in Raheny Village and around St. Anne's Park
Mid-Summers 5K
Winter League Road Race Series - Held Between November and April, including Four 3 Mile Races, Four 2 Mile Races and Three 1 Mile Races
Raheny Mile - incorporates the final Round of the Winter League
The Holland Cup - 3 Mile Sealed Handicap Road Race
Lord Mayor Two Mile Series - 12 two mile (3 km) races held between June and August.
The Jim Wall Cup - Three Mile Open Handicap Road Race
Joe Noonan Cup - Six Mile and Three Mile Road Race
Christmas Day Mile - Held in association with GOAL
St.Stephens Day Parlaufs
Brian Boru 10 - 10 Mile road race which features the Leinster 10 Mile Championship
St. Annes 4x400m race through the woods.
Fit4Life Series - Six Two Mile Races aimed for people new and returning to the Sport
National Road Relays - Hosted in association with Athletics Ireland
Website - www.rahenyshamrock.ie
Facebook - @Rahenyshamrock
Twitter - @rahenyshamrock
