Midland Inter-County T&F Match 2024 (12th July)

Following up on a great event in May, Offaly Athletics organised another Midland Inter-County T&F Match on Friday evening 12th July that gave nearly 200 youngsters from Clubs in the midland Counties, including 26 from Mullingar, a great opportunity to compete in the top-class Tullamore Harriers AC stadium in a lovely low-key friendly competition.

This was similar to the event we attended back in May, but this time there were more ages and some different events. Girls and boys u/9 to u/16 could compete in 4 x 100m relay, shot, turbo javelin, javelin and 400m. As always, the relay races proved extremely popular and reflecting the friendly spirit of the event, teams could be made up of athletes from more than one club, so Mullingar borrowed others to make up teams, a number of Mullingar athletes helped to complete teams for other clubs, and in fact, one of our young boys even ran with a team made up of runners from four different clubs. Over the course of a very enjoyable evening, Mullingar athletes won a big number of medals across all the events, with some winning several medals, but medals won or not, they all enjoyed the event. Thanks to the parents for bringing their children and to those that helped as officials, but especially to Offaly Athletics for hosting a great event [GD].