Athletics Ireland’s High Performance Director Paul McNamara has said it is not in Rhasidat Adeleke’s best interests to race the women’s 4x400m relay at the World Championships

If Adeleke was part of the team, Ireland would be ranked sixth of 17 competing nations, based on the season’s bests of the leading four athletes. In her absence, they will be ranked 16th

In recent years the Athletics Integrity Unit has banned some of the sport’s biggest names, racking up an astonishing number of convictions, particularly in Kenya

Twenty years on, she remains part of an exclusive club of only five Irish athletes - Eamonn Coghlan, Sonia, Olive Loughnane, and Rob Heffernan the other four - to podium at a World Championship

Shanahan's time of 2:00:66 saw her finish fifth in her heat of the 800m and was not enough to progress to the next round of competition

The 31-year-old goes into Tuesday night’s showdown in the form of her life, having conserved energy while coasting through the rounds on Saturday and Sunday

Rule No 1 for the Irish competing in the World Championships in Budapest is not disappearing down a depressing rabbit hole on social media. Some platforms are fine... in moderation

Noah Lyles of the United States scorched to victory in the 100 metres at the World Athletics Championships on Sunday, his first world title over the distance

Her thesis now has 3,000 words, which is 50-odd thousand short of what it needs. It's not due until December, and next week she will be competing in the World Championships in Budapest

Lavin blasted to victory with another crisp, commanding display of sprint hurdling, winning her 13th national title – five indoors, eight outdoors

There was also another standout performance from Nick Griggs

Clonmel’s Sean Tobin was competing in the Antarctic Ice Marathon, just over 1000km from the South Pole.

Nick Griggs claimed a silver in the U23 race, followed home by teammate Dean Casey. The Irish men's U23 team claimed bronze as did the senior women's team

Parents who pay rent for their children in third-level education will now be entitled to the renter's tax credit, under proposals agreed today.

The pair had mixed emotions

In temperatures that hit 32C, the South African finished 13th out of 16 runners

The decision follows an investigation into the eligibility of Perseus Karlstrom to win a medal in the men’s 10km track race.

The 26-year-old became the first Irish winner of the Morton Mile for 18 years 

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“If you look at any sport – Formula 1, football teams, Dublin football or Limerick hurling – the more funding a sport gets, obviously success becomes easier to achieve.” 

Louise Shanahan is among the athletes set to receive support from the Jerry Kiernan Foundation, which was set up by Kiernan’s friend Murt Coleman to honour the late coach’s memory

The Limerick athlete producing the performances of her life on Saturday to power into the world indoor final

Both the men's and women's teams narrowly missed out on places in the 4x400m finals

Bandon athlete had won her heat earlier in the day

Healy battled a bout of Covid last week and delayed her journey to Belgrade to put in one last “tester session” on Tuesday, which she said went “crap”. She considered withdrawing from the individual 400m as a result but together with coach Shane McCormack, she decided she had “nothing to lose” by lining up today.

Andrew Coscoran bids to build on an impressive 12 months at this weekend's World Indoor Championships 

“I didn’t have a sports psychologist and once I started going to one, things really started to look up."

After a horrific series of injuries, Brian Gregan is back in an Irish vest at the World Indoors in Belgrade this weekend

At the start of the year, Molly Scott cut out three paper digits, brushed across them in gold paint, then sellotaped them to the back of her phone.

The 22-year-old Carlow sprinter clocked 7.19 in Abbotstown today to take the national indoor 60m title with ease

When Murt Coleman sat down with his sons last year and thought of ways to honour the memory of Jerry Kiernan, he began by figuring out ways to continue the Olympian’s life’s work.

The 2020 and 2021 editions fell victim to Covid restrictions but organisers are confident that all systems are go for a return to the streets o the capital.

Why are so many women either unable or unwilling to commit to top-level coaching? For Lilly-Ann O’Hora, Athletics Ireland’s women in sport officer, there are two main reasons

If there’s one thing 25-year-old Coscoran has learned, it’s that the best in the world are no different to him

Mungret man Long’s phenomenal recall, energy, and enthusiasm for Irish athletics will stir many fond memories for the legions of volunteers and unpaid administrators who have soldiered in the same trenches

Soccer is back on top as Ireland’s favourite sport, sharing top spot with Gaelic Games

On and off the track, it was a year that tested Ciara Mageean to her limits.

Underage medals are one thing, but Sonia O’Sullivan knows there’s a huge chasm separating that from senior success.

The shortlist marks another milestone to conclude a landmark year for women's sport, with six women among the eight nominees for the RTÉ Sportsperson of the Year award

McElhinney brought a rapturous noise from the 7,000-strong crowd as he hit the front approaching the final lap of the men’s 8000m event at the Sport Ireland Campus

McElhinney led home the Irish finishers with Keelan Kilrehill in sixth followed by Michael Power (13th), Donal Devane (40th), Jamie Battle (44th) and Thomas Devaney (67th).

If it wasn’t for bad luck this year, Darragh McElhinney would have had no luck at all.

The RTÉ Sportsperson of the Year shortlist features six history-making women among the eight nominees

At first they thought he was lying. It just didn’t make any sense. When 16-year-old Nick Griggs entered a 5000m race in Belfast back in May, looking to line up against some of the best Irish seniors, event organiser Seamus McCann was dubious, to say the least. The rest is history