Athletics on track to secure unprecedented levels of funding
More than 200 delegates attended the two-day gathering at the Ramada Hotel in Limerick Junction, where the new executive was elected. Michael Heery, who has been at the helm since the AAI was founded almost seven years ago, was elected president for another term, defeating former Honorary Secretary Georgina Drumm by 151 votes to 62. Corkman Michael Quinlan, treasurer since 1991, was defeated by newcomer Mary Coghlan 130 to 86 in the vote for chair of finance.
Ossie Kilkenny was the first to acknowledge that sacrifices had been made in the interest of the sport: “I know the pain people went through over the last 12 to 18 months in their commitment to democratise this organisation and reinvigorate it and I know it was not easy.”
