On a record-breaking day for Irish athletics, Sophie O’Sullivan’s barnstorming 1500m run was one of the main eye-catchers. Running for Washington track and field team, O’Sullivan smashed her own PB with a time of 4.08.06 which books her place in the NCAA finals in Austin on the weekend June 7-10. O’Sullivan, a daughter of Irish […]

3 years ago

Roll on the World Championships in 2023 and the Olympics in 2024. It feels strange to say it but in this kind of form, and with a bit of luck on her side, Ciara Mageean will be right up there. She’ll be right up there with as good a chance as anybody. We always have […]

3 years ago

Ciara Mageean ran the best race of her life to win the silver medal in the European 1500m in Munich. For a while, as she led from the gun and then stalked Laura Muir’s move at the bell, it looked like she might even take the gold but as she says herself, that’s for another […]

3 years ago

When Paul Robinson finished in 4th place in the European championships in 2014, just 0.17 of a second off the podium, the world of athletics was at the 21-year-old’s feet. If you’d told him back then that it would take seven years before he’d compete in another major championship race, seven years before he’d reach […]

5 years ago

Cian McPhillips has gears and on the biggest stage of his career, the 18-year-old romped up through them. In doing so, the Longford youngster left some of Europe’s most talented 800m runners in his wake as he qualified for his first major championship semi-final in his first major championship competition. How’s that for a fella […]

5 years ago

As a young, budding and impressionable cross country runner in Tipperary, Sean Tobin was the man. In some farmer’s field was where you first heard about him, spattered with cow-dung when you first caught a glimpse. He was a couple of years older and the talk about this fella from Clonmel, was that he was […]

5 years ago