At St Anne's Park · St Anne's Park, Raheny, Dublin 5, Co. Dublin
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Raheny Shamrock Athletic Club hosts its Schools Invitational at St Anne’s Park on Friday 13 November 2026, bringing school athletes from across the area onto the club’s home course for a competitive meeting in the middle of the autumn athletics calendar. It suits families with children who compete for school teams, PE teachers bringing a group along, and anyone who likes watching grassroots athletics in a park setting rather than a stadium.
The invitational runs on the same grounds Raheny Shamrock uses for its regular club fixtures and cross country season, with races organised by school and age group through the morning and early afternoon. As with the club’s other autumn meetings, expect a working fixture rather than a spectacle, marshalled by club volunteers along set routes through the park’s open grassland. St Anne’s Park gives enough room for several races to run through the day without the fields overlapping, and its flat, well drained grass has made it one of the busier cross country and athletics venues on Dublin’s northside through the autumn and winter season. There is no formal spectator area or ticketing, in keeping with how school and club athletics fixtures are normally run in Ireland, so anyone can walk the park paths to follow the races.
St Anne’s Park sits in Raheny on Dublin’s northside, close to Raheny DART station and served by several Dublin Bus routes along the Howth Road and Watermill Road. There is parking within the park itself, though space can be limited on a busy fixture day.
The event takes place within the wider grounds of St Anne’s Park, one of Dublin’s largest public parks, with woodland walks, a walled garden and the Red Stables craft courtyard all close by. There is more to explore across Co. Dublin.
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