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
Sarah Lavin
Irish athlete Sarah Lavin
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 Lavin finishes fourth in 60m hurdles final at European Indoor Championships
Limerick hurdler just outside the medals with season best performance in Apeldoorn
Sharlene Mawdsley withdraws from 400m heats at European Indoors
Irish athlete suffers hamstring injury during warm-up for Friday morning’s heats
Sharlene Mawdsley’s searing anchor leg still leaves Ireland short of a mixed relay medal at the European Indoors
Sarah Lavin won her heat of the 60m hurdles in cool and confident style
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
Sarah Healy and Marcus Lawler set new championship marks at Irish Indoors
Sarah Lavin claimed a seventh Irish indoor title in the 60m hurdles on day one of action in Abbotstown
Sonia O’Sullivan: Relay pool an open door for young Irish athletes hoping to make a splash
Sonia O’Sullivan: Relay pool an open door for young athletes hoping to make a splash
Olympics day 14 as it happened: Rhasidat Adeleke finishes fourth in 400m final
Ireland qualify for women’s relay final, Kate O’Connor is 14th in the heptathlon with one event remaining
Olympics day 12 as it happened: Rhasidat Adeleke through to 400m final
Jack Woolley beaten in taekwondo repechage as Sarah Lavin and Mark English qualify for Friday’s semi-finals
Mark English and Sarah Lavin book Olympic semi-final spots after dramatic morning
Sophie O’Sullivan and Sarah Healy just miss out in 1,500m semi-finals after both came fourth in repechage round
Olympics: Meet Team Ireland - Track and Field
Rhasidat Adeleke one of several genuine Olympic medal contenders for Ireland in Paris
Sarah Lavin and Shane Lowry named Ireland’s flag-bearers for Olympics opening ceremony
Both representatives speak of great honour of being chosen for ceremony on Friday
Sarah Lavin lights up the Cork City Sports with another victory in the 100m hurdles
Reece Ademola also thrills the home crowd with victory in the long jump
Sarah Lavin splashes to a 100m hurdles championship record at national championships
Run of 12.79 seconds in tough conditions was just .02 off the Paris Olympic qualifying time
Sarah Lavin clips hurdle and can only finish seventh best in Europe
Israel Olatunde finished sixth in the semi-finals of the 100m at the European Athletics Championships
Sarah Lavin still searching for that magic medal moment in Rome
The now 30-year-old from Limerick first took to this stage in Zurich 10 years ago
Sarah Lavin finishes fifth in Doha Diamond League then face plants onto track
Irish hurdler was rewarded with a time of 12.73 seconds, not far off her Irish record set last year
Athletics: Classic dive for the line sees Doyle overcome Griggs in 1,500m final at National Indoors
Clonliffe runner edged out his rival by just four-hundredths of a second in a contest which left both men exhausted
Sarah Lavin equals personal best in 60 metres hurdles at National Indoors
Second on the day went to Molly Scott in a personal best of 8.31
World Athletic Championships: Ciara Mageean sets Irish record to finish fourth - ‘I honestly gave it my all’
Mageean just missed out on a first World Championship medal on the track for an Irish athlete since 1995
World Indoors wrap: Lavin sets new PB as she finishes seventh in final
Disappointment for men’s and women’s 4x400m relay after missing out on finals
Sarah Lavin determined to break barriers in Belgrade
Irish hurdler looking to follow in O’Rourke’s footsteps at World Indoor Championships
Phil Healy produces another indoor 400m best to take third place in Madrid
Time of 51.66 again just shy of Karin Shinkins’s 20-year-old Irish record of 51.58
‘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
Mark English books his place at Tokyo Olympics
English breaks Irish 800m record to claim Olympic place
Phil Healy gets the nod as Rhasidat Adeleke showdown lives up to the hype
26-year-old just edges 18-year-old pretender to National Track and Field 200m crown
English’s national ambitions sidelined after Tokyo qualification goalposts shift
800m runner will now try and nail 800m automatic qualification time on the continent
Tokyo Olympics: Irish athletics team getting stronger
So far, 21 athletes have either qualified or are very close to – four more than in Rio 2016
Sonia O’Sullivan: What should be the exact role of high performance?
It’s great news that TG4 are bringing athletics back into Irish living rooms
Sarah Lavin bidding to clear last hurdle on the way to her Olympic dream
Limerick woman within touching distance of joining elite 100m hurdlers in Tokyo
European Indoors: Irish miss out on medals but leave with some positives
Sean Tobin left disappointed with performance in final of the 3,000m on Sunday
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