A bumper year for Irish athletics: 25 medals and the athletes who won them
It’s rare for Irish athletes to win medals across such a wide range of events in a single year
Athletics Ireland
Kate O’Connor’s calm mindset was her greatest asset during medal-winning year
Central to the Dundalk athlete’s success in 2025 was her understanding to never look beyond any event immediately in front of her
Four athletes to represent Ireland at next month’s World Cross-Country Championships
Brian Fay, Fiona Everard, Niamh Allen and Noah Harris to make trip to Florida
The story of Donore Harriers: Kings of cross-country, lords of the track
Founded in October 1893, three years before the first modern Olympics, Donore Harriers created a new breed of Irish distance runner
Kate O’Connor’s father Michael wins 2025 Coaching Achievement Award from World Athletics
World Athletics singled out for his ‘athlete-centred philosophy’ and outstanding commitment to athlete development
Kate O’Connor named athlete of the year at Athletics Ireland annual awards
Cian McPhillips chosen as track athlete of the year, Derval O’Rourke inducted into Hall of Fame
Cian McPhillips’s availability boosts Ireland’s medal hopes for European Cross-Country Championships
McPhillips will run in the 4 x 1,500m relay team in Portugal next month
Derval O’Rourke: ‘I almost needed my career to hit rock bottom before I could enjoy it again’
Hall of Fame inductee has made peace with disappointments faced during ‘pretty savage career’
Sonia O’Sullivan: Time for the Irish women’s distance runners to prove more of their mettle
While the standard of Irish men’s 5,000m running is rising, women’s standards continue to fall back
Cormac Dalton eyeing second national cross-country title in three years
Men’s and women’s senior races are once again relatively wide open
‘She has an amazing engine, and some capacity for pain’: Coaching Caitríona Jennings to the 100-mile world record
The 45-year-old Jennings won the Tunnel Hill 100 Mile last Saturday in a time of 12:37:04
Booming numbers in athletics clubs is not all good news
Dundrum-South Dublin already has a waiting list for juvenile membership
Ian O’Riordan: David Gillick’s cry for help is what resonates most in The Race
The Race continues at suitably swift pace through the highs and lows of Gillick’s career
Orla Comerford: ‘Female sprinting in Ireland is probably the strongest it’s ever been’
Double world champion says to clinch golds in 100m and 200m is ‘absolutely surreal’
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