What a performance! Kate O’Connor has given Ireland one of their great sporting moments, winning a silver medal in the heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. She came into the final event, the 800m, in second place and solidified it with an astonishing fifth personal best out of seven events. The Dundalk woman […]

6 months ago

This clears things up. Ireland’s foremost track star, Rhasidat Adeleke, recently pulled out of the upcoming World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. The Tallaght woman has finished fourth in the 400m at both the 2023 World Championships and 2024 Olympic Games. Her form so far this season has been patchy, and she announced on Instagram that […]

7 months ago

A tremendous World Athletics Championships finished with a blazing encore on Sunday night. The Budapest renewal will surely go down as one of World Athletics’ finest. Where do you start? You simply have to start with the Double-Dutch-Disaster on the competition’s opening night. Somehow, with gold at their finger-tips, both Sifan Hassan and Femke Bol […]

2 years ago

Mark English showed his class to advance to the semi-finals of the 800m at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. The Donegal athlete came into these championships very much under the radar, having endured an injury and illness-hit season. But English is a championship performer, as he has shown so many times down through the […]

2 years ago

Dutch supporters will be asking the question, why us? On an evening that had you questioning the workings of your very eyes, Holland were left battered, bruised, bleeding, medal-less. And that was the most painful thing of all. Twice, their athletes led around the home bend. Twice, they led with 50 metres to go, twice, […]

2 years ago

Luck ran out

9 years ago