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. Raheny athletes compete in a wide range of events including every National Championship.

History

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

Honours

Key figures

The club has provided five Olympic athletes, with seven appearances: Dick Hooper (1980, 1984, 1988); Pat Hooper (1980); Paddy McGrath (2000); Mick Clohisey (2016); and Sophie Becker (2020).

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 had a modest clubhouse in the centre of Raheny, in a former schoolhouse on the banks of the Santry River, before securing the use of the former Catholic church, St Assam's. Plans exist for a long-term clubhouse on city-owned land near the Raheny National Schools complex and other sports club bases.

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: