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Waterford, Ireland / WLR Mar 6, 2021 3:55 PM Sarah Lavin and Sean Tobin have set lifetime bests on day two of the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Poland, with both promising potentially more to come in Torun. Clonmel AC and Dublin Track Club star Tobin clocked a new mark of 7 minutes, 47.71 seconds in coming fifth in his 3000m semi-final, only being a second off winner Andrew Butchart of Britain (7:46.46) in a blanket finish. Tobin had stayed close to the front throughout, looking very comfortable around fifth place and was never out of touch with the lead, with the first three qua...

Sport Journalist Much has been made of the size of the 23-strong Irish team which will compete over the four days of the upcoming European Indoor Championships in Torun this weekend, but ultimately the currency of success is medals and winning even one from four days of competition looks a daunting task.  The Ireland team, however, has had a long and happy relationship with the most accessible championship for its athletes who earned two podium successes from the last staging in 2019.  Mark English, the bronze medallist over 800 metres in Glasgow last time out, returns to a championship whi...

Sport Journalist Ireland's largest ever team for a major indoor championship will travel to Poland next week for the European Indoors, with 2019 medallists Mark English and Ciara Mageean carrying some of the best hopes of a medal among the 24-strong squad.  English is currently ranked seventh in Europe over 800 metres but he will bring vast experience to the task of potentially racing three-hard races in three days.  It's a refined skill to reach a six-man final in such a condensed schedule but his European Indoor medals from 2015 and 2019 are proof of his expertise in gauging how to put h...

The rush of Irish records and personal bests that have filled the sessions of the Elite ILH Micro Meeting at Abbotstown continued into day two with Phil Healy's sub 52-second run in the 400 metres headlining a long list of athletes making significant breakthroughs.

Playwright Kieron Magee on the Maritime Mile and rediscovering his joinery skills Gail Bell asks experts and people in the public eye what keeps them going. This week: Belfast playwright, Kieron Magee Belfast writer, gazebo builder and whiskey drinker Kieron Magee 04 February, 2021 01:00 Kieron is project manager at Tread the Boards, whose short film 1797 – Searching for Henry Joy McCracken is on YouTube 1 Up and at it – what is your new morning routine? How has it changed? I used to start the day writing, but now I start by learning Irish and Spanish on a...