A running pilgrimage around Ireland at age 50: ‘I managed to get through without even a single blister’After 68 days and just over 1,400 miles, Adharanand Finn reached his finish in Dublin last FridayFri Oct 04 2024 - 06:00
Gidey takes three minutes off his personal best to clock Irish half-marathon record in CopenhagenHugh Armstrong and Shona Heaslip crowned national half-marathon champions in CorkSun Sept 15 2024 - 16:47
Ian O’Riordan: The slow realisation of being once a runnerI had always read John L Parker Jr’s classic Once a Runner through the eyes and ears of the puma – not the sort of pussycat I have possibly becomeSat Sept 14 2024 - 06:00
Rhasidat Adeleke takes third in 400m Diamond League final after Salwa Eid Naser disqualifiedBahrain's Salwa Eid Naser was disqualified for lane infringementFri Sept 13 2024 - 19:18
John Coghlan: ‘There’s other talent as good, maybe even better, than Rhasidat Adeleke in Ireland’The Dublin sprint coach who got two of his athletes on to the Olympic podium in Paris in the same eventFri Sept 13 2024 - 06:00
Rhasidat Adeleke looks to end long season on a high in Diamond League final Irish runner will meet Marileidy Paulino and Salwa Eid Naser again in high-class 400m final in BrusselsThu Sept 12 2024 - 06:00
Ellen Keane on retirement: ‘I need to figure out who I am, what I like, what I’m going to do’Swimmer admits she’s at peace with her decision to retire from competitive action at age 29Tue Sept 10 2024 - 17:00
Sharlene Mawdsley wins 400m at Swiss Galà dei Castelli meetIn her first outing since Paris, the Tipperary sprinter took first in 51.35 secondsMon Sept 09 2024 - 21:20
Cathal Doyle finishes eighth as Josh Kerr wins 5th Avenue Mile in New YorkBritain’s Kerr wins race in a course record that had stood since its first staging in 1981Sun Sept 08 2024 - 18:31
Jakob Ingebrigtsen is the latest thrilling exponent of the ‘race hard, race often’ approachIt’s a pity world record holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won’t let us see her race against the best more frequentlySat Sept 07 2024 - 06:00
Sign of buoyant times as athletics clubs in Dublin struggle to meet demandRaheny Shamrock Athletic Club now has a long waiting list at certain juvenile levelsWed Sept 04 2024 - 18:36
The timely and welcome renaissance in Irish athletics field eventsJoyce’s success in Lima is a timely reminder that for all the talk of the need for better facilities and specialised coaches nothing beats a bit of old-school ingenuity and ambitionSat Aug 31 2024 - 06:00
Oisín Joyce claims historic javelin bronze medal at World Under-20 Championships in Peru19-year-old from Ballinrobe becomes first Irish athlete to make podium in a throwing event at this levelFri Aug 30 2024 - 12:33
Elizabeth Ndudi finishes sixth in World Under-20 Championships despite injurySean Doggett finishes a tired-looking seventh in his 400m semi-final, while Fintan Dewhirst advances in 400m hurdlesThu Aug 29 2024 - 10:41
Sean Doggett advances to 400m semi-finals at World Under-20 Athletics ChampionshipsFintan Dewhirst reaches semi-finals of the 400m hurdlesWed Aug 28 2024 - 18:47
Elizabeth Ndudi makes long jump final at World Under-20 Champs in PeruUnderpar performance by the Irish jumper but through to Wednesday’s final as the last of 12 qualifiersTue Aug 27 2024 - 19:31
Rhasidat Adeleke echoes call for ‘lifelong consequences’ for athletes implicated in dopingIrish sprinter says she has analysed her fourth-place finish in the Olympics and is focused on getting betterTue Aug 27 2024 - 15:44
Oisín Joyce heading for Lima with a pep in his step Young Mayo javelin thrower Oisín Joyce already up to fourth on the Irish all-time senior list and now bound for the World Under-20 ChampionshipsTue Aug 27 2024 - 06:00
Rhasidat Adeleke finishes fourth in Diamond League on her return to actionNorway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen breaks the world record in the 3,000m by three seconds during Poland meetSun Aug 25 2024 - 16:12
Paul O’Donovan writes another gold medal chapter in World Rowing historyLightweight single sculls title success at World Rowing Championships in Canada another milestone in Paul O'Donovan's extraordinary careerSun Aug 25 2024 - 15:47
Was Rhasidat Adeleke unfairly denied an Olympic bronze medal in Paris?Athletics Integrity Unit’s charge against Bahrain Athletics Association raises serious questions – including about the merit of Salwa Eid Naser’s Olympic 400m silver medalSat Aug 24 2024 - 06:00
Bahrain charged with ‘serious anti-doping rule violations’ before Paris OlympicsCountry was limited to sending 10 athletes to Paris, one of which was 400m silver medalist Salwa Eid Naser, who was previously banned for a doping violationThu Aug 22 2024 - 12:48
An honourable track record: Ireland at the Olympics, 1924-2024A century after athletes first represented the Irish Free State at the Olympic Games in Paris, the largest and most ambitious Team Ireland travels to the French capital. The intervening 100 years have seen remarkable achievements by Irish sportspeopleThu Aug 22 2024 - 10:01
Irish sprinter Israel Olatunde to join Olympic champion Noah Lyles’s elite training groupOlatunde is moving to Florida to join group coached by Lance Brauman after breaking his own 100m record last SundayWed Aug 21 2024 - 15:05
Siobhán McCrohan gets defence of her world title under way in impressive styleIrish rower won the third of four heats comfortably, going straight into Friday’s semi-finalsTue Aug 20 2024 - 18:25
Michael Darragh Macauley named new chief executive of Sanctuary Runners Former Dublin footballer takes over from Graham Clifford, who is now developing the organisation internationallyTue Aug 20 2024 - 06:00
Israel Olatunde eyeing magical 10-second barrier as he sets new Irish 100m record Israel Olatunde targeting 10-second barrier after he clips .05 off his own former mark of 10.17 to set new Irish 100m record of 10.12 at Newham in London on SundayMon Aug 19 2024 - 19:26
Paul O’Donovan sets second fastest time in World Rowing Championships heatsIrish rower back in action in the single sculls as Italy’s Niels Torre sets new lightweight world recordSun Aug 18 2024 - 20:19
Ian O’Riordan: Athletics deserves a bigger share of the sport funding pieThe stats show just how difficult athletics medals are to win at Olympic level and our top athletes deserve all the funding help they can getSat Aug 17 2024 - 06:00
Athletics facilities: Dublin well-served but Cork among large parts of the country severely lackingParis Olympic review: Though now basking in our athletes’ recent success, we can expect a renewed focus on facilities, funding and coaching to be high on the agendaThu Aug 15 2024 - 05:15
Fionnuala McCormack finishes 28th in Olympics marathon as Sifan Hassan makes historyWicklow runner becomes first Irish woman to compete in five Olympic GamesSun Aug 11 2024 - 13:07
Olympics: Ireland just miss out on medal with agonising fourth in women’s 4x400m relay finalHeroic effort to chase bronze medal by Irish quartet as US win goldSat Aug 10 2024 - 22:41
Olympic mixed zone leads to a familiar churn of emotionsExperience of Paris Olympics leaves its mark on Sarah Lavin who notes things ‘that have touched me and will stay with me more than a gold medal ever could’Sat Aug 10 2024 - 06:00
Olympics: So near, yet so far as Rhasidat Adeleke misses out on 400m medalRhasidat Adeleke edged out of bronze position in last 30m, with gold taken by an impressive Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican RepublicFri Aug 09 2024 - 22:06
Olympics: Ireland qualify for final of women’s 4x400m relaySophie Becker, Phil Healy, Kelly McGrory and Sharlene Mawdsley finish behind Jamaica and the Netherlands to earn a place in Saturday’s finalFri Aug 09 2024 - 14:48
Paris 2024: Opportunity comes knocking on the biggest stage for Rhasidat AdelekeTwenty-one-year-old Rhasidat Adeleke will be the first ever Irish woman to line up in a sprint event final at the Olympic GamesFri Aug 09 2024 - 06:00
Marie-José Pérec’s career a timely reminder that Rhasidat Adeleke is only starting out on Olympic journeyLegendary French runner Marie-José Pérec won three Olympic gold medals and her 400m winning time of 48.25 in Atlanta in 1996 still stands as the Olympic recordFri Aug 09 2024 - 06:00
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone touches the seemingly impossible by smashing 400m hurdles world recordBotswana win first gold medal in Olympics history as Letsile Tebogo wins 200mThu Aug 08 2024 - 21:53
‘It affected my performance’: Noah Lyles Covid diagnosis revealed as he finishes third in 200mLetsile Tebogo wins first ever gold for Botswana on night as Lyles left arena in wheelchairThu Aug 08 2024 - 21:16
Soufiane El Bakkali wins 3000m steeplechase after world record holder Lamecha Girma suffers horrible fall Ethiopian clipped barrier with his leg, and with that sent himself flying high and then rolling onto the trackWed Aug 07 2024 - 21:55
Rhasidat Adeleke into the Olympic 400m final after ‘messy’ semi-final where she did just enoughIrish sprinter finished second behind Salwa Eid Naser and was sixth fastest qualifier for her first Olympic finalWed Aug 07 2024 - 21:26
Athletics repechage Q&A: How does it work and what do the athletes think?It was agreed the repechage round would apply to all individual track events from 200m to 1,500m in distance, including the hurdles events; the 100m already has a preliminary round.Wed Aug 07 2024 - 19:00
Mark English and Sarah Lavin book Olympic semi-final spots after dramatic morningSophie O’Sullivan and Sarah Healy just miss out in 1,500m semi-finals after both came fourth in repechage roundWed Aug 07 2024 - 13:24
Cole Hocker delivers one of the all-time Olympic shocks in 1,500m final as Ingebrigtsen misses outJakob Ingebrigsten can only manage fourth after leading the final until the last few stridesTue Aug 06 2024 - 20:19
Rhasidat Adeleke looks primed for big run as she bids for final placeThe 21-year-old Dublin sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke is drawn in the first of three Olympic 400m semi-finals on Wednesday eveningTue Aug 06 2024 - 18:48
Sophie O’Sullivan and Sarah Healy unlucky to miss out on automatic qualification in 1,500mBoth Irish runners finished in seventh spot - with the top six advancing - and will now go into Wednesday’s repechage raceTue Aug 06 2024 - 10:57
World record may be needed to take Olympic gold in ‘most vicious’ 1,500m raceTuesday’s 1,500m final looks likely to boil down to a fast and furious race between arch rivals Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Josh KerrTue Aug 06 2024 - 06:00
Mondo Duplantis goes up, up and away to take pole vault gold with new world record Round-up: Swedish superstar raises his own record to 6.25m as Stade de France goes wild; Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet wins 5,000mMon Aug 05 2024 - 22:01
Ciara Mageean ‘absolutely heartbroken’ as injury forces her out of Olympic 1,500mEuropean champion has been suffering with chronic pain from an Achilles injury in the run-in to the GamesMon Aug 05 2024 - 19:47
Rhasidat Adeleke keeps plenty in the tank as she cruises to victory in 400m heatsIrish sprinter admits: ‘I just kind of shut down the last 100m’; Sharlene Mawdsley and Sophie Becker into repechageMon Aug 05 2024 - 18:30
