Welcome to IrishThrowersClub.com, a site for throwers, by throwers. This site is still under construction so please bear with us as we get everything set up. Thank you.

The Irish Throwers Club would like to extend its best wishes to it's President Eddie Mulcahy on his 77th Birthday

Copies of the LSW World Rankings for 2009, which I'm sure will show many Irish athletes at the top, are now avalible. I will not be bulk ordering them as I did last year, I will only order as many copies as are requested. Please contact me before Wednesday 24th February to reserve a copy

LSW European Championships
Juterbog, Germany
August 13th-15th

Friday 13th August
Shotorama: Men +30-90,
Shockorama: Men +30-90
One-Handed Hammer: men +30-90, women +30-80
Stone triathlon: men +30-90, women +30-80
Slingball: men +30-90, women +30-90
Ultrastone: 12kg men50-90, womens +30-80

“Rahmenprogramm”: Hammer of Igmand

Saturday 14th August
Shotorama: Women + 30-80
Shockorama: women + 30-80
Speerorama: men + 30-90
Greek Discus: men +30-90, women +30-90
Historical Weight 25.4kg: men +30-75
Historical Weight 12.5kg: women + 30 - 80
Heavy hammer Triathlon: women +30-80
Ultrastone 25kg: men + 30-90, women + 30-80
Ultrastone 50kg: men + 30-70

“Rahmenprogramm”: Weight Highlythrow (we presume over the bar)

Sunday 15th August
Grenade: Men +30-90, women +30-80
Heavy hammer triathlon: men 30-90
Speerorama: women +30-80
Ultrastone 25kg Final(?)(women)
Ultrastone 50kgFinal(?)(Men)

Per event: €8
All events: €100

“Rahmenprogramm”:€3.00

Please note that the above is not the order in which events will be ran, only what events are on each day. For a list of times please see:

http://badlauterberg.de/lsw/start/2010/EM/zeitplan.htm

Also, for Masters athletes in the M80+ age groups, please note that there is restrictions in some events which end at M75. For others please note there is no mens event in the 12.4kg ultrastone for Men senior or 30-45.

If anybody is interested in traveling to this competition please make your intention known to ITC Secretary James Nagle at the nearest oppertunity if you wish for the ITC to handle travel arrangements and entry form submission. No travel arrangements will be made prior to April 3rd.

Limerick Strongman Challange

The Limerick Strongman Club will be holding a competition on St. Patricks day with two of Irelands Strongest men facing off against international opponents (Eddie Mulcahy turned down an invitation, he said it would be unfair on the opposition)
We in weight throwing circles know how difficult it can be to get word of competitions out and then to get people to attend. A competition like the above depends heavily on the size of the crowd and I think it would reflect poorly on the ITC to quite rightly complain about low attendence numbers but then not support something like this in turn.
The entry fee to watch is 13e but there is reduced fees for groups of 10 or over. I've gotten a few names already and it would be great if we could get a full group togethor to head up to what will be a very interesting competition. They will be introducing novice catagries in the months ahead, both a place for some of our throwers to occupy themselves in the off season and possibly recruiting grounds for us!
If anyone is thinking of heading on the day give me a shout on nagle010@yahoo.ie, 0872184577 or on the ITC Facebook page, link in one of the articles below.
Please help to support this because I am quite sure that in doing so we will be helping ourselves

II ITC Dr. O'Callaghan Cup 2010
20th June 2009
Athlone IT, Athlone, Co. WestMeath

Hammer,
Shot Putt
56lb wf

€10 per event, €25 block entry
Times to follow

M/W Seniors and Juniors. Masters age groups will be set depending on attendence at Len Braham Memorial (3rd April) and registered ITC Masters members. Juvinile age groups will be determined depending on other competitions which may be going ahead on the same day (provincial championships)

Please joing the ITC group on Facebook (or search for Irish Throwers Club) to keep up to date with ITC information.

ITC Ned Tobin Championships 2010
July 31st 2010
Templemore, Co. Tipperary

Shot Putt
56lb wf
56lb ob

Full details to follow

ITC Membership for 2010 is now up for renewal. 2009 members will be sent newsletters in the week ahead with a renewal form included. If you have not previously been a member of the ITC and would like to join or would like to receive the FREE 1st issue of our newsletter please email your postal address to nagle010@yahoo.ie

Membership fees for 2010 are €10/£10 and full details will be included in the newsletter. For those attending I will be at the Munster Junior, Senior and Masters Championships and I will be taking fees there.

Also the ITC is on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=215710750921&ref=nf

Some of the excellent photos taken by journilist Lindie Naughton at Dunboyne can be found here

ITC President Eddie Mulcahy added his name to the records books at the ITC European Championships in Dunboyne by breaking the M75 World Record in the Historical Weight with a throw of 5.20, adding 8cm to the previous mark. This capped a string of fine performances by many Irish athletes at these championships. Full details of the championships will follow.

If you would like to send your congratulations to Eddie you can post a message in our Guestbook

Dunboyne, Co. Meath
October 24th - 25th

ITC Dunboyne Open, Sat 24th, 11am start. Registration opens at 10.30am.
Weights Pentathlon
Goulding Hammer
Grenade
Greek Discus
Heavy Hammer

ITC/HTA European 56lbs Championships, Sun 25th, 10am start * European Championships
56lbs Hammer
56lbs Putt
56lbs Turn*
56lbs without follow*
56lbs over bar*

Entry Fees
All events €10/£9
Block Entry: €40/£36 each day, €70/£63 all 10 events

ITC AGM to be held Saturday evening after competitions, all members asked to attend

The 2008 edition of the LSW Ranking and Stat books are now avalible from the ITC and cost €20. Please contact me on nagle010@yahoo.ie to reserve a copy. Rankings contain Irish results from Dunboyne, placing many Irish athletes near the top, and also contains results from the 2008 European Championships and major German Championships

ITC Kerry County Open Championships,
An Riocht, Co. Kerry
Saturday 29th August, 12.00.

Goulding Hammer
Grenade
Greek Discus
112lb "O'Herily Stein"

ITC Open 56lb wf

Kerry County Open Championships entry fees:
€10 per event, additional €5 to compete in both Junior/U23/Masters and Senior (catagories where senior weight is thrown)
Goulding & Grenade: €15
€35 block entry
€45 block where entering two catagories.

Kerry County Open Championships + ITC Open block fees
40e (all 5 events)
55e (2 catagories in 4 events and 56wf. athletes can only compete in one catagory in 56wf)

To enter please contact ITC Secretary James Nagle at nagle010@yahoo.ie or 0872184577. 1st 2cd and 3rd place medals will be awarded to Kerry athetes in each catagory plus medals to guests based on their positions.

2009 ITC Dr. O'Callaghan Championships
Banteer, Cork
25th July

12.00 Registration
12.30 Mens U16 & Junior Hammer
1.15 Womens U16 & Junior Hammer
2.00 Senior Mens Hammer
2.45 Senior Womens Hammer
3.30 Mens O40 & O60 Hammer
4.00 Womens O35

56lb/36lb/28lb
Mens Senior, O40, O50, O60, O70
Womens Senior, O35, O45

Entry is €5 per event. If interest in competing please contact the ITC at nagle010@yahoo.ie. Payment can be made on the day but please contact the ITC before hand to confirm that there is a place in the competition for you.

Mens rankings for the shot, hammer, discus and javelin (56lb wf and ob to follow) have been added to the rankings section. Due to lack of time and a less then full knowledge of what age groups throw the senior weights I have not been able to do a ranking for the womens throws. If somebody else would like to take this upon themselves I would be delighted and please send the rankings to nagle010@yahoo.ie, even if it is only the overall rankings at the end of the year.
If I have missed any results or made mistakes please send corrections to nagle010@yahoo.ie

Michelle Pilkington has been on to tell me that the Womens section of the Inverness Highland Games are looking for athletes to compete. The competition consists of a 28lb weight over the bar and for distance, caber, 12lbs Scots hammer and shot putt and takes place from the 18th to 19th of July. There is also a Mens U20 and U25 age group with the senior mens returning in 2010. Full information can be found on http://www.invernesshighlandgames.com/index.htm or by contacting Michelle at michelleshome2002@yahoo.com

Also the ITC would like to wish the very best of luck to its President Eddie Mulcahy who will be competing the same weekend at the World Masters Highland Games, information on which can be found at http://www.scottishmasters.org/

A spark of unlaziness hit me today and after working out a way around some of the html I had been faced with I have managed to upload the results of the IV Len Braham Championships (in the Events and Results section) and have finaly managed to get the ITC Records section open. The Goulding Hammer, One Handed Hammer, Grenade, Greek Discus and Kugelschocken are the only events I have full records for so far and are the only events there. These alone took me months to compile day one and have to be meticulously upkept. If anyone wants to take the burden off of me your welcome to it! Now at least you know what all those NRs and Vs next to peoples names mean in results

April and May have been busy months for the ITC. After weeks of trying and a lost application our bank account has been set up and we have been issued with a check book! In the hands of Eddie Mulcahy this spells disastor.

Contact has been made with Germany and the results of the Len Braham Championships in Castleisland this year were the first to be submitted to the LSW directly by the ITC. Preperations are have also been finalised for the four ITC athlets, James Nagle, Joe Nagle, Hugh Gallagher and Michelle Pilkington, who will travel to Tata in August to represent Ireland at the World LSW and WTA Championships.

Planning for the Dr. O'Callaghan Cup in Banteer on July 25th is still ongoing. A provisional program has a Mens and Womens U16, Junior and Senior hammer competition with a Mens O50 and Womens O40. In the 56lbwf we intend to provide a competition for every age group, Junior, u23, Senior and each age group up every 5 years from O35. This program is open to change and more likely the deletion of events if we don't have time or interest from competitors.

An old relic, the ITC guest book, has been dug up from the old ITC website which is currently in the process of being closed. The link has been added to the links bar, please add message.

Further updates to the site (which have allready fallen behind scedule) will be slow in coming with the work being done, especially with the amount of time being taken up by organising upcoming competitions. Results for Castleisland, already supplied in the HTA/SECTA Gazzette, will appear in May's An Roth Cleas which may slide into early June.

And finaly, our email address looks to be permenantly down. To contact the ITC please email nagle010@yahoo.ie

Our email provider is down at the moment so the ITC can not receive emails. We had hoped this would be sorted out by now but it has been going on for about a week.
For the time being if you need to contact the ITC please email nagle010@yahoo.ie

2009 LSW and WTC World Championships and World Cup
21-23 August, Tata, Hungry

Events: (Events marked * are World Championships, all else are World Cup. I do not know the difference...)
LSW Greek Discus*
LSW Shotorama*
LSW Historical Weight* (ie. Heavy Hammer)
American Hammer (?)
LSW Speerorama*
LSW Weight Throw, 3 different weights.*
LSW Club Throw* (ie Grenade)
LSW Erwin Kollmar Slingball* (not sure if this is Iron or not)
LSW Ultra Stone Throw*
Stone Throw
Hammer of Igmander
Javelin Throw, 3 different weights.

As yet this is the only information I have. Estimated costs of transport and accomidation to follow in March Newsletter

2009 ITC Len Braham Memorial
11th April, Castleisland Co. Kerry
10am start

Events:
Discus
Hammer
Goulding Hammer
Grenade
Greek Discus
56lb Putt
112lbs Super Heavy Weight
56lbs for distance.
Programe is open to change.

Entry: 20e block entry, single commemeritive gold boxed medal
3e per event, single commemeritive silver unboxed medal.

To confirm that a medal will be there on the day for you please email me at info@irishthrowersclub.com if you are interested in going

The LSW World Championships will be held in Tata, Hungary, from the 21st to the 23rd of August 2009.
Please contact the ITC on info@irishthrowersclub.com if you are interested in traveling. We will be putting travel details togethor shortly. And if anyone is interested in attending start getting the passport updated!

After many setbacks and bundles of wasted paper the 1st issue of the ITC Newsletter, An Roth Cleas, has been printed and some copies distributed. If you have not received one please email your address to info@irishthrowersclub.com

The first issue is free to anyone who wants it and further issues (planning 3 for the year ahead) will be sent only to ITC members. Membership for the year ahead is €10/£10. Email the ITC for further info.

The ITC Farranfore Open will now take place this Sunday 23rd of November at Farranfore at 11am. Directions and programe as below. Please emial info@irishthrowersclub.com if you are attending

The ITC Farranfore Open has had to be postponed until either next weekend or until the weekend after that.

Full details will follow

The ITC Farranfore Open will now start at 11am and will also include a 56lb putt. These changes have been added to the information below.

ITC Farranfore Open 2008
Saturday 15th November, 11am
10e entry, 15e for non-ITC members.

Events:
Goulding Hammer
Grenade,
112lb O'Herily Stein
56lb Putt
56lb wf

Trophy for all competitors and for best overall performance/athlete.

On entering Castleisland from the Limrick side turn right for Farranfore Airport instead of left for An Riocht Track. Follow this road until you pass Farranfore Airport (on your left) and continue until you come to a junction. Turn left for Killarney and on your left will be a pub (Ulicks), then a pharmacy and then you will come to a set of lights at a road crossing. A few feet after this is a left turn in between the lights and a purple painted Garda Station. Take this turn and follow for a very short distance until you come to Farranfore GAA field. Should take no more then 20 minutes beyond the normal drive to An Riocht.

It would be a great help if anybody who wishes to compete could email me at info@irishthrowersclub.com.

At the moment there is a slight delay in sending out the first ITC newsletter as Colm Murphy has not yet sent me on the addresses. The first newsletter will be sent out to all athletes who I have addresses for and from there on in will only be sent to members. Membership fees for the season ending September 2009 is 10e and is now being taken. Some membership fees have allready been collected and these were used to buy extra equipnment for the ITC which I will go into in below. If anyone would like to receive the first ITC newsletter could they please email their address to info@irishthrowersclub.com.

As I said the fees gathered at Dunboyne this year have allready been used to buy equipnment and thus the ITC will be holding a small competition in November to knock the cobwebs out and get ready for the 2009 Indoor season. I attempted to contact Shercock in relation to holding a competition in October but received no reply. As this has allready happened before we have deceided to no longer consider Shercock for any future ITC competitions.
Weather permitting the ITC Farranfore Open will be held in Farranfore, Co. Kerry on either Saturday 15th or Sunday 16th of November. I fully understand that the date and location will not suit everybody but it is the best that can be done and will be a relitivly small affair. The program will consist of a Goulding Hammer and Grenade, purchased in part with ITC membership fees, a 112lb Super Heavy Weight and a 56lb wf. Times and entry fees have not yet been deceided, provisionaly 10.00am. Full details and times will follow.

Also of recent many people have been inquiring about Javelin coaching in Ireland. Unfortunatly I am generaly in a position to do nothing more then pass the email onto the AAI and I'm not getting much of a responce from them. I would advise anyone interested in contacting Pat Ryan at pat@athleticsireland.ie. He was the contact for a Javelin coaching day recently held at Tullamore on October 25th and I'm sure he must have some information.

Taken from AAI website:

A coaching clinic on strength and conditioning (at beginner level) will take place on Saturday 27th of September at 1pm in Santry (gym) area. The session will be conducted by Dennis Roscoe from the UK. Dennis has extensive experience in this area and will demonstrate key lifting techniques such as the clean and outline the role of strength and conditioning for athletes. This session will be two hours in duration.

Dennis will also do a session on coaching the rotational shot technique at beginner level, focussing on key drills that will assist the coach in starting to coach this technique. This session will take place from 3.30pm to 5pm on Saturday 27th September at Santry stadium. The cost of attending this clinic is €10.

If you are interested in attending this clinic, please contact Ailish O’ Brien at 051/562593, 085/7268849 or by email: Ailish.obrien@itcarlow.ie

We have been having trouble with the site of recent which has not let us upload photos. Therefore we have set up a flikr account which can be accessed at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishthrowersclub

Start times for the upcoming Dr. O'Callaghan Memorial are:
Hammers: 10am
Shot, Discus, WF: 12pm
Entry is 20e for all events or 10e for the shot, discus and wf. If anyone wishes to attend and hasn't informed please do so at info@irishthrowersclub.com

3rd ITC Dr. O'Callaghan Hammer Decathlon Championships
Castleisland Co. Kerry, 24th August

HTA/ITC Irish Open Championships
Dunboyne Co. Meath 30th August

LSW European 56lbs Championships
Dunboyne Co. Meath 31st August

Further details to be announced

Shot Putt
Discus
Hammer
56lb W.F
56lb Putt
Kugelschocken
112lbs
Grenade
Greek Discus
35lb Hammer

The ITC is currently seeking and AAI permit so that distances acheived in the standerd weights can be used to acheive qualification distances for International Championships.

The 2008 ITC Len Braham Easter Throws Championship will take place at Castleisland on Sunday the 6th of April, starting at 10am. There will be 10 events (program to follow), block entery of 20e or 3e per event. Commemeritive boxed gold medal for all who block enter, commemeritive unboxed silver for all else.

The ITC has set up and online store currently providing T-Shirts and Hoodies branded with the ITC logo on the front and the ITC domain address on the back so you can wear it with pride at throwing meets and promote the ITC at the same time!
As you know the ITC is non-profit and all the profit generated from the stores sales will be reinvested into the ITC so we can add more competitions to the annual fixtures list and hopefully one day subsidise athletes traveling to the World LSW Champs in Hungary so Ireland can get a team going there.
And remember, all prices are in American dollers so there's no better time to buy! The cost of getting a large batch sent to Ireland and selling them is too expensive, with customs tax of nearly 200 euro so this is the only way to get ITC gear for the moment.

The Results from Dunboyne have finanly been put in the results section.
Due to technical difficulties we've had to take the blog down for a while. I'm sure you'll miss it.
Now you'll excuse me, I have to get ready, the Late Late Toy Show will be on soon.

First of all congratulations to Eileen O'Keefe who was voted as Field and Overall Irish Athlete at the inaugural Athletics Ireland National Athletics Awards. Full story can be found here http://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2007/1118/athletics.html

I'm just finishing the results from the Irish Open Championships which were held in Dunboyne and am working on the results of the World Championships. These came to me in the form of 42 sheets of paper. The results should be up by the end of the day

The Dr Pat O'Callaghan results are now up here. Apologies for the delay. The Shercock results will be up later tonight.

Check out the blog for an update on Joe Nagle

The sport of weight throwing has been hit hard with the passing of the 1968 Olympic Hammer Champion and twice world Record Holder Gyula Zsivotzky of Hungry on the 29th of September and the death of 4 times Olympic Discus Champion Al Oerter on October 1st.
While both were great athletes Oerter was a literal God of the Discus areana, dominating the sport as no other athlete in any other discipline would. He became the first athlete to win 3 and then 4 succesive Olympic Titles. Competeing in Rome in 1960 he over came the pain of a disc injury and torn cartilage in his lower ribs, removing a neck harness for his 5th round winning throw of 61.00m. Such rugged determination would see him setting his life time pb at the age of 43 in 1980 after having retired in 1968.
The IAAF article on Al Oerter can be found at: http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=41940.html
The IAAF article on Gyula Zsivotsky can be found at:
http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=41933.html

The Irish Throwers Club has announced information relateing to its upcoming Weights Pentathlon League which can be found .here.

Maybe dramatic was a bit too stong a word to use but the ITC will be announceing changes to its upcoming ITC Throws Meet on the 30th of September and the status of the Weights Pentatalon. The competition IS going ahead but we're altering the administrative format and other such confusing buzzwords. At the moment we're considering changing the Juvinile weights pentatalon to a weights quadratalon by dropping the weight at these agegroups due to various considerations which will be made apparent tomorrow evening. If it was up to me they'd be throwing the 56lb...
This is a very interesting development which the ITC hopes to be able to unvail tomorow evening (Sunday) at 5.00pm if all goes well. Would you belive me if I told yout the National Executive was going to be up all night working on this? Thought not. So, stay tuned throws fans, same throws time, same throws channel!

Hope you all like the spancy new banner we've added thanks to the hard work of Timmy Reidy of the TechComm. I also helped, though not very much.
The program for the Irish Throwers Club Throws Meet has been added to the Events and Results Section.
The ITC is proud to announce that it has appointed Hugh Fitzpatrick as the Director of the Competitions Organisation Committie. Hugh will assist the ITC with the organisation of its future competitions and help in the expansion of the ITCs competitions program. Good Luck Hugh.
Also, did I mention we have a new banner?

Irelands Eileen O'Keeffe has finished 3rd in group B and 5th over all in this mornings Qulifying for the womens World Championship Hammer Final with 71.07 on her first throw. The IAAF accredits her with the following:

"71m on my first throw, that's exactly what I had planned. I did the practice throw quite easy so I knew I had the big one here. I've just been a full-time athlete since June and it has made a difference to be able to train twice a day and get more time to recover. Getting a silver at the World University Games gave me more belief. I will definitely give it my all in the final to be in the top 8 and get close to my PB. I can see that 76m will probably take the first place."

The four athletes who finished ahead of her in the Qulifying got out there throws fairly easily but those behind her mostly took there 3 throws to qualify. If that trend continues Eileen could overtake Wenxiu Shang of China who threw 71.31 to qulify and possible take 4th. With Heidler (72.27), Moreno (72.87) and Brkljacic(74.69) in the top 3 a medal will be difficult and if we're hoping for someone to have a bad day our best hope would be Betty Heidler. Her acheivement so far is brillent, putting Irish weight throwing right back up there and here's wishing her the best for the final on Thursday

Well we've managed to get the blog back up and running just in time for the national Seniors this weekend. Also videos of Eoin Leen throwing discus were added to the videos account on Youtube. These can now be acsesed by clicking on "video" under media on the left.

While we all hope and dream, I never expected I'd live to see the day an Irish shotputter would finish 8th in a World Championship Final. Needing a hugh 19.20m to qualify to the final of the World Youth Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic, Irelands Colm Quirke, son of Paul who if I'm not mistaken may have thrown the shot in a previous life (!) pulled out every last ounce of strength he had and with his last of the three qualifying throws shattered the Irish Youth record with a pb of 19.33m.
But, no rest for the wicked. Eight hours later at 6.45 he was back into the arena for the final. While he didn't have a great run at the final, scoring only one legal throw, his second of 18.98, it was good enough for an excellent finish of 8th in a competition in which his qualifying throw would only have moved him up one place! The athletes in 5th 6th and 7th all hit pbs and the top 3 marks were all 20m+, David Strol of Germany winning with an new World Youth Lead of 21.40.
Quirke can, as his country is, be proud of his acheivements and it could well be a qustion of how much longer his father can hold his Irish Senior Record. Colm goes into the Discus qualifications this evening at 5.55 (if thats Czech time their an hour ahead of Ireland) with a pb of 52.80 which he set in Tullamore last month. The AAI website informs us that the Irish Youth record is held by the great Frank O'Brien since 1981 at...52.74. While he needs 56.00 to qualify and he has allready more then established himself as one of Irelands future greats hopefully he'll put the matter of who holds the record to rest today.
Best of luck Colm, keep the flag flying!

I go away for a week and a half and what happens? The server goes into one of the most spectacular death spirals ever. While everything has been saved I have not yet been able to regain control over the blog, anyway, we here at the ITC are working hard (although not knowing what we're acctualy doing) to get everything back on track. Sorry for the delay.
When I do get the blog up and running I'll give a run down of the shot putt at the Cork City sports which myself and Patsy O'Connor were called into to compete against Reese Hoffa and Rubin Williams. Hoffa threw a new Irish All Comers Record of over 21 metres in what was a great competition to watch.

In relation to the upcoming Dr. Pat O'Callaghan Championships I have received some emails from people who will be competing and I will be ordering the medals early next week. If anyone else wants to compete and be sure of getting their medal on the day please email me at info@irishthrowersclub.com.

For the next two weeks I get to enjoy sun, good food and live ammunition at the discretion of the state at an RDF Camp in Kilworth, so there is going to more then likley be no updates anywhere on the website until then. I have updated the mens rankings...but the Technical Committie haven't uploaded them yet. I have put training links for the Hammer and Weight lifting (other events to follow soon) in the forum and told the TechComm to put them in the training section. I was told it would be up yesterday. And I belived them....Please address all angry emails to "Timmy" at info@irishthrowersclub.com

It is likely that I may have a second camp in early August so the minute I touch base I'm going to be putting in the orders for the Dr. Pat O'Callaghan medals. If you don't email me, turn up on the day and there isn't enough medals you'll just have to wait until I order more. To avoid this PLEASE email info@irishthrowersclub.com. please...

I'm quite happy with the success of the blog, in it's first week it's gotten over 1300 hits. If anyone has info or results or random rubbish they think belongs in it emails please. As it says in the blog best of luck to the Irish athletes competeing in the European Cup in Finland this weekend.

I have some packing left, so see you in two weeks. And if I don't return, tell them I died a heros death.

The Irish Throwers Club has set up it's own Blog and it can be found here at
http://www.irishthrowersclub.com/blog
If you don't know what a Blog is, then follow the link and you should find out.

I have compiled the Irish 56lbs Hammer Records and posted them under "Hammer Circle" in the Forum. When the Technical Committee gets back to work an area will be created in the main page for all the records. I put the 56lbs up first as it will be thrown at both Castleisland on the 26th of August and Dunboyne on the 1st and 2cd of September (all info in the Forum) I'm having trouble with the womens records but hopefully I'll have them up soon.


As you know at the Dr. Pat O'Callaghan Decatalon there will be 2 classes of medals. For those competeing in the Hammer Decatalon and the shot, discus and 56lb, entery is 15 euro and there is a Gold Commeritive medal for each competitor. For those competeing in just the shot, discus and 56lb the entery is 8euro and there is a silver commeritive medal for each competitor. Athletes will NOT be given a gold and silver for competing in all events. I would much appriciate it if people intending to compete would drop and email so that I can calculate how many medals I need to order as I do not intend to over order to be safe!. If I do not have enough medals on the day, those who emailed will be presented with the medals I have and those who didn't will be presented with theirs at a later time. So to be sure of getting you medal on the day please email info@irishthrowersclub.com as soon as possible

Until the Technical Committee returns from Sweden (don't ask) the information on this years Championships can be found by following the below link:
http://www.irishthrowersclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=124#124

Late this week the information will be in the Events and Results section of the Main Page. If anyone has any qustions you can contact me at info@irishthrowersclub.com

For a limited time the Irish Throwers Club is offering FREE personal Email Addresses! Instead of boring old yahoo.com or hotmail.com you can now have irishthrowersclub.com after your user name. And when you sign up for your free email account we'll also do the hard work of setting up a Forum account for you as well!
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The ITC wishes to offer it's condolences to Ger Nagle and his family on the recent passing of his father. Ger has always figured prominantly in throwing results, finishing 7th at last years European Cup and winning two bronzes at the National Championships. I am sure I can talk for all Irish throwers when I say our thoughts at with him and his family at this time.

It is the intention of the ITC to put togethor a Coaching Committie which will organise training days and identify and help talanted throwers at a young age. The ITC feels that an approch like this is missing and strongly needed in Irish athletics. We intend to start small, hopefully getting a coaching session togethor in around October and we will see where it can go from there.
The most important thing we need though is...coaches. When fully operational the ITC hopes to appoint 6 coaches to lead it's Coaching Committie, A Director, a coach for each of the 4 throwing disciplines and a coach for auxillary training (weights, plyometrics etc) It is our hope to use this as the basis of developing a nationwide coaching structure that will be able to assist up and coming athletes.
If anyone is interested please notify us at info@irishthrowersclub.com. At the moment we are just happy to hear from interested coaches who are prepared to coach athletes but if you feel like it please include relevent information such as events you are willing to coach, prior coaching experience etc.
It is very important that anyone who is willing to help, no matter how great or small their knowledge or experience, contact us. It is a great oppertunity for someone who is just starting out on their coaching path, perhaps have just done a course through the AAI, to get started. The ITC is commited to learning from the mistakes of current and earlier athletics bodies who have failed to implement an efficent coaching structure which has lead to many talanted throwers leaveing the sport early, many not developing their talant correctly or becoming disillusioned.
At a later stage we will also be extending the National Executive, the ITC governing body which at this time consists only of a solitary figure, but we understand that to expand too fast at the start is not the correct procedure. The main challanges ahead of the ITC at the moment are to form a coaching structure and get more athletes involved and competing at ITC competitions. Any advice on these matters are as always welcome to info@irishthrowersclub.com

Thank you.

James Nagle
ITC General Administrator

I'm glad to say that after a few teething problems the forum is up and running again. More information on the up coming Dr. Pat O'Callaghan championships will be up there early next week. Also the ITC has began compiling it's outdoor rankings for the year. The mens have allready been put up with the exception of the 56lbs as no event has been done with these yet. The womens will be up next week. The ITC rankings take into consideration throws done at all IAAF approved competitions or competitions that operate under IAAF rules such as ITC competitions, Intervarsities and we also use results from county championships. Please email any corrections or results for conclusion to info@irishthrowersclub.com

The Irish Throwers Club wishes to express its condolences at the death of Parry O'Brien who passed away on Monday the 23rd of April at the age of 75. O'Brien is most famed for inventing the modern glide technique in the shot putt which led to him breaking the world record 16 times between 1953 and 1959. O’Brien revolutionized the shot putt, leading the technical move forward and is the forefather of todays biomechanical approach to throwing. He was a great athlete and his contribution to throwing will never be forgotten.

Please follow this link to an obituary printed in the LA Times:

Photos taken at the 2cd Len Braham Championships in Castleisland are now in the images section. There is only a small sample and more will be added over the next few days. My thanks to Timmy Reidy and Kyle Kennedy for the work they put in

The results of the Len Braham Easter throws competition 2007 are now up, you can get to them in the Events and results section.

The World Throwers Championships will take place in Tata, Hungary this year and the Irish Throwers Club will be attending. If anyone wishes to travel please email me at info@Irishthrowersclub.com. This must be done by the end of April as I will need to book accomadation. At the moment 4 athletes have expressed an interest in attending. Information will be in the events section within the next few days

A discus competition has been added to the list of events for this coming Saturday. This means there are 4 discus based events on the day. For athletes competing in all 9 events entry is still a maximum of 20 euro.

The articles section, irish throwers history and the events section are now up. More content shall be added as time goes on.

Just to clarify, the reason the dates on all the news posts are set to the 1st of April is due to a new news managment system that was implemented over the last few days, all old news posts had to be reorganized and reposted leading to the dates being the same.

We are proud to announce that Eddie Mulcahy has been appointed as the first President of the Irish Throwers Club. More details can be found HERE.

The II HTA/ITC Len Braham Easter Throws Championships will be held at An Riocht Track, Castleisland, Co Kerry on the 7th of April at 10.30am. Further details in the Forum.

For the time being, the media section is down, bear with us as we get everything set up properly over the next few days. If you have any photo's or videos taken at recent irish athletic events please forward them to media@irishthrowersclub.com. Also dont be afraid to contact us and tell us what you think of the new site, and if it needs any improvments. Thanks.

Welcome to the new and improved IrishThrowersClub.com, alot of changes have been made to the overall design of the site, and some sections have undergone a cleanup/restructuring.

The site is no longer hosted with the free eircom hosting service, and has been located on a new webserver. This will give the webmasters more freedom when it comes to content creation and speed. Needless to say you can expect there to be next to NO downtime and no annoying popup ads hindering your browsing. Also a new forum has been set up so please go and register. Announcments will also be made on this page and in the forum about upcoming events and competitions. Thanks for your patience while we got this thing up and running again.