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The Run for The Rock is Back!

The Paul Lucey Run for the Rock is back again for 2023 and will take place on the May Bank holiday weekend, Monday 1st May 2023. This is the fifth year of the run which has grown in strength and popularity from year to year.

The run and walk honours the memory of Paul Lucey, a proud Austin Stacks man who passed away in December 2017 and is a community celebration of family and fitness.

Paul was a member of the famous Stacks All Ireland Club Championship winning team of ’77. He trained many underage and senior teams down through the years, notably bringing the 1986 and 1994 senior winning teams to county success. , He was also involved with the Austin Stacks ladies football team in later years. This year the run will be followed by a Family Fun day for adults and children of the club and wider community.

These community runs events are all the more important now as the Covid 19 pandemic has taught us the importance of freedom, exercise and friendship which over the past few years had been restricted.

We are hoping to encourage as many kids, teenagers, parents, grandparents, friends and family members to get outdoors on Monday 1st May to run or walk 5km promoting health and positivity within the club and community and mark the start of summer.

The event will begin at the entrance to the Austin Stacks’ Clubhouse at Connolly Park at 11am and taking in the traditional enjoyable route up Caherslee and down the Skinny Mile section of the Greenway.

Registration:

• www.eventbrite.ie/Paul Lucey Run;

• through Austin Stacks Facebook or twitter;

• on the morning of the event between 9am and 10.30 am.