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The proud Harriers' stalwart who has reached the summit of Irish athletics Reporter: ');  '); LOOKING back on his subsequent progress up the Irish, and indeed world, athletics ladder, it is hard to believe that John Cronin was not elected in his first attempt to get involved at committee level in the Tullamore Harriers. The Tullamore resident will be elected unopposed as president of Athletics Ireland at Congress on Saturday and he hopes serve the permitted two terms of two years each. A fine 800 metre runner in his youth, Cronin took up running in his native Donegal, winning the national U...

Tullamore Harriers stalwart to take over at helm of Irish athletics Reporter: ');  '); LONG time Tullamore resident John Cronin will take over the most powerful position in Irish athletics when he is elected as president of Athletics Ireland next Saturday. Cronin will be elected unopposed, replacing Georgina Drumm who had been elected as president an annual Congress in the Tullamore Court Hotel in 2016. The Louth woman beat Ray Flynn on the same day that John Cronin was elected as chair of competition and deputy president. A native of Donegal, Cronin moved to Tullamore in 1983 to take up em...