Coscoran picks up Meath Athlete of the Year award
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Ratoath AC athletes with their awards for winning National medals.Image 2 of 27
Ratoath AC athletes with awards for winning national medals in 2022.Image 3 of 27
Ratoath AC athletes receiving awards for winning national medals in 2022.Image 4 of 27
Moira Groome and Aoife Parrella with their European Medallist award and President of Meath Athletics Anne Harrington.Image 5 of 27
Master Track Athlete of the Year Mick Priest with Michael Cornyn.Image 6 of 27
Aoife Parrella, Edel Gaffney and Moira Groome.Image 7 of 27
Star of the Sea athlete Andrew Coscoran receives the Meath Athlete of the Year award.Image 8 of 27
Fr Murphy AC’s Richie Bell with Anne Harrington after collecting his Meath CC award.Image 9 of 27
Cushinstown AC athletes with awards for winning national medals and Christie Kelly Shield.Image 10 of 27
Ciaran McDonagh was inducted into the Hall of Fame by Anne Harrington.Image 11 of 27
Hall of Fame inductees Ciaran McDonagh, Lena Heffernan and Michael Heery.Image 12 of 27
Cushinstown AC athletes receive the Christy Kelly Shield for best senior club at County Track & Field Championships.Image 13 of 27
Ratoath under-9 girls with the Heffernan Cup.Image 14 of 27
Meath Athletics President Ann Harrington with Junior Field Athletes of the Year Coil O Muiri (Fr Murphy AC) and Niamh Quinn (Cushinstown AC).Image 15 of 27
Moira Groome with awards for winning both European and World medals in 2022.Image 16 of 27
Ratoath AC athletes and coaches with their awardsImage 17 of 27
Ratoath AC won the Heffernan Cup for best Juvenile club at cross-country league.Image 18 of 27
Dunboyne AC athletes with their awards including best juvenile club at cross-county championships.Image 19 of 27
Dunboyne AC’s Molly O’Reilly and Charlie Kane won the under-11 best field athlete awards.Image 20 of 27
Michael Heery picks up his Hall of Fame award from Meath Athletics officials.Image 21 of 27
Ratoath AC athletes with awards for winning national medals in 2022.Image 22 of 27
Ratoath AC’s Lydia Jordan, Bohermeen AC’s Tara Hunt and Ratoath AC’s Rhys Mooney won the under-11-13 cross-country Athletes of the Year awards.Image 23 of 27
Dunboyne AC athletes Molly O’Reilly, Katie O’Reilly and Ella Ferry with their awards for winning national medals in 2022.Image 24 of 27
The under-11-13 Track Athletes of the Year are Ratoath AC’s Nicole Doherty and Dunboyne AC’s Conor Kane.Image 25 of 27
The under-14-16 Track Athletes of the Year were Ratoath AC’s Katie Doherty and Gavin Witter.Image 26 of 27
The u14-16 Best Field Athletes were ratoath AC’s Lucy Mooney and Navan AC’s Ishan Dharmasena.Image 27 of 27
Dunboyne AC athletes with coach John O’Reilly with their awards.MEATH ATHLETICS AWARD
A total of 28 Meath athletes were awarded for winning All-Ireland medals during the year at the Meath Athletics awards night in the Ardboyne Hotel recently.
Over 250 people attended a great event and enjoyable night which was back for the first time since the 2019 awards.
Overall Meath athlete of the year was awarded to Andrew Coscoran.
The Star of the Sea athlete was honoured for his outstanding year competing in European and World Championships in 2022 and some outstanding runs over 800m, 1500m and the mile which included competing in the famous Wannamaker mile in New York.
Coscoran produced some great performances across Europe winning races and running fast times both indoor and outdoors during the 2022 season.
Anne Harrington presented the awards with chairman Michael Cornyn acting as MC on the night.
For the first time new Hall of Fame Awards were presented and there were three people inducted into the Hall of Fame - Lena Heffernan (Na Fianna AC), Michael Heery (St Brigid's AC) and Ciaran McDonagh (Fr Murphy AC)
There was also new awards to recognise Meath Master athletes who medalled at European and World level in 2022.
Mick Priest (Fr Murphy AC) and Aoife Parrella (Star of the Sea AC) were both European medallist, while Moira Groom (Trim AC) picked up European and World medals.