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Kate O’Connor sets high medal bar in Nanjing as rise of Irish athletics continues
Athlete’s pentathlon silver ranks as only medal winner among six-strong Irish team but ends 19-year podium wait for Ireland at this level
‘I kept saying to myself how much do you want this medal?’ - Kate O’Connor on winning silver
Pentathlete had set PBs in three of the first four events
How Kate O’Connor won her silver medal: In pictures
Dundalk woman became the first Irish athlete to medal in World Indoors in 19 years
The rise and rise of Kate O’Connor: Ireland’s first world indoor medallist for 19 years
The Dundalk multi-event athlete has now added world bronze to the European bronze she won two weeks ago
Nanjing a perfect opportunity for young Irish team to make a mark on world stage
Sarah Healy is oozing confidence, Kate O’Connor is in the form of her life, and Andrew Coscoran, Sarah Lavin and Sophie O’Sullivan are in the running too
Sophie O’Sullivan: ‘When people get medals, you think it just makes it a bit more possible for everyone’
Sarah Healy and Kate O’Connor hope to build on their medal success at this weekend’s World Indoor Championships in Nanjing
Ireland’s Nicola Tuthill wins under-23 hammer gold at European Throwing Cup
Cork athlete becomes the first Irish winner in the event which has been running since 2001
From Apeldoorn to Nanjing, Kate O’Connor chases another podium place at the World Indoor Championships
‘The progress has been day and night ... if I can stay injury-free this summer could be really, really exciting’
Sarah Healy, Mark English and Kate O’Connor to chase more medals at World Indoor Championships
Three European medal winners selected as part of Ireland team that will compete in Nanjing, China next week
Kate O’Connor in focus: ‘It’s who can stay injury-free... that’s who ends up coming out on top’
Sunday’s performance seals qualification for pentathlon at World Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, in under two weeks
Ireland’s three medal winners from the European Indoor Championships: who they are and their journey to the medal podium
Sarah Healy, Mark English and Kate O’Connor each claimed a medal during the final day of action in Apeldoorn
Three medals for Ireland as Sarah Healy, Kate O’Connor and Mark English shine at European Indoor Championships
Sarah Healy takes gold in 3,000m final as centrepiece of astonishing half hour for Irish athletics
Irish women have real medal-winning potential at European Indoor Championships this weekend
Sarah Healy and Kate O’Connor among those in contention in the Netherlands amid strong competition
European Indoors preview: Irish medal hopes looking to shine in Apeldoorn
Cathal Doyle hopes to make the 1,500m final against Jakob Ingebrigtsen
Kate O’Connor targeting a podium place at European Indoor Championships
The 24-year-old is ranked second in the pentathlon going into the event in the Netherlands
Athletes running abroad: why more Irish medal hopes are being driven by foreign coaches
Sarah Healy, who now trains in Wigan under coaches Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows, is among the leading 3,000m contenders at next weekend’s European Indoor Championships
New Irish indoor records for Andrew Coscoran, Sarah Healy and Kate O’Connor
Andrew Coscoran nails the biggest victory of his career at grand prix in Boston
Olympics: So near, yet so far as Rhasidat Adeleke misses out on 400m medal
Rhasidat Adeleke edged out of bronze position in last 30m, with gold taken by an impressive Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic
Olympics day 13 as it happened: McLaughlin-Levrone breaks 400m hurdles world record; Tebogo beats Lyles in 200m
Olympic Games: Kate O’Connor competes in the heptathlon
Adeleke gets through ‘messy’ semi-final
Kate O’Connor becomes Ireland’s first Olympic heptathlete while Shamrock Rovers and St Pat’s are in European action
Olympics Day 13: Irish in action and best of the rest as Kate O’Connor gets heptathlon under way
A quiet day for Ireland with only Leona Maguire, Stephanie Meadow and O’Connor in action
The top 25 moments in women’s sport in 2021
Mary Hannigan and Malachy Clerkin look back on the year’s most memorable events
‘Dream come true’ - 11 athletes join the automatic Irish qualifiers
After Tuesday’s close of business, they were inside the ranking quota for their events
Sonia O’Sullivan: A lost season for Irish athletes in the springtime of youth
Promising athletes have been denied chance to make their bow on the world stage in 2020
Tokyo dreaming: Ireland’s Olympics team slowly taking shape
Ireland could send as many as 90 athletes to Japan – an increase on Brazil four years ago
Upton a worthy November winner after playing through the pain barrier
Róisín Upton named Irish Times / Sport Ireland sportswoman of the month for November
Ciara Mageean a fitting winner of the Athlete of the Year award
Sonia O’Sullivan inducted into the Athletics Ireland Hall of Fame on her 50th birthday
Rhasidat Adeleke, Kate O'Connor win Irish Times/Sport Ireland Sportswomen of Month title
Adeleke won two golds in Baku; O’Connor became first Irish woman to medal in heptathlon
Rhasidat Adeleke completes sprint double with 200m success in Baku
Gold at European Youth Olympics is sixth championship medal for 16-year-old sprinter
Bold run by Sarah Healy rewarded with 1,500m silver
European Under-20 Championships silver is her third medal in the past two years
Aaron Sexton comes up short in farewell race
Sexton run out of the medals in 200m in last race before committing to rugby
Kate O’Connor first female heptathlete to medal for Ireland
Dundalk athlete wins silver at European Under-20 Athletics Championships
Sarah Healy and Sophie O’Sullivan safely through in Sweden
Both came through their heats on day one of European Under-20 Championships
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