After 26 years in existence, Ballynonty AC in Co.Tipperary have finally pulled the plug. While the club was never a big one, it does show the problems that some of the smaller rural clubs are having.
Most of the older runners in Cork will have come across Ballynonty AC members at races over the years and the club will be remembered for holding a low key 10-mile road race every July which had its own following.
In a statement, Neilie Hall said..." It's with great sadness that I have to announce the end of Ballynonty AC as of the 1st of October 2020. We had some great times over the last 26 years but the runners and leaders have gone. I would like to thank everyone who helped out over years."
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Ballynonty AC have been an athletic club consecutively for the last 26 years reforming in 1994 after a number of years dormant but they have been around much longer than that, going back in history, they placed 3rd team in the 1938 All Ireland Cross Country Championships held in Baldoyle Co.Dublin, and had a strong teams too in the 1960s and the early 2000s,They lost a great pillar of the club in Sean Healy in 2017 who was to the forefront of helping train athletes and fielding teams. Neilie Hall has also been a great servant for keeping it going for so long. It's very sad to see an athletic club be no more but hopefully they will rise again someday and reform in the future.
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