Waterford has the honour of hosting the 2006 Celtic International between Ireland, Ulster, Scotland & Wales. This one per event competition for under 16 & under 18 was a huge success and great credit must go to the organising committee, officials, participants and the Waterford Corporation and staff for what turned out to be a most enjoyable days competition. Ireland had to give way to Scotland in the overall competition but this did not dampen the enthusiasm of the local contingent who were delighted with the overall level of competition and organisation. Waterford is now in a position to seek to host many of our domestic fixtures since the upgrade of the track at the RSC and once one or two small equipment issues are ironed out, there is no reason that Waterford can not host the 2007 All Ireland under 14 / 19 Championships, bringing over 2000 people into the city for a weekend in July.

Local club Ferrybank Athletic Club provided 12 athletes to the Irish teams and their performances are as follows:-

Mairead Murphy - 1st 80m hurdles (equalling Susan Smiths record)

Patricia Barry - 1st 3k

Niamh Whelan -1st 200 meters

Jessie Barr - 2nd in the 300m hurdles and triple jump

Hayley Murphy - 2nd 100 meters

Christopher Russell - 2nd 100 meters, time of 10.89 was 0.39 faster than his personal best

Gavin Downey - 2nd 1500meters

Niall Tuohy - 2nd 800 meters

Mary O Connor - 2nd 800 meters