Breaking Sonia O’Sullivan’s 24-year-old Irish 1500m record is one of the key things keeping Ciara Mageean motivated while drug scandals continue to haunt and damage her sport.

This wasn’t an easy assignment for Ciara Mageean, for reasons that run far deeper than performance alone. Either way, it was one she passed with flying colours here at the World Championships in Doha.

For several years, it was not so much smoke but thick clouds of cynicism that hung over Salazar’s work as head coach at the Nike Oregon Project.

Twin brothers Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf are promoting Toy Story 4 T-shirts specially produced to raise funds for Crumlin Children's Hospital.

Scintillating, thrilling and full of potential - Ciara Mageean has moved considerably closer to Sonia O’Sullivan’s long-standing Irish women’s mile record by carving three-and-a-half seconds off her lifetime best in Monaco, in a race where the vintage world record was smashed by Sifan Hassan.

Ireland’s Leon Reid has finished sixth in the men’s 200m at the Diamond League meeting in Rabat.

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Formerly conjoined twins from Cork who hit the headlines over the weekend when Hollywood actor, Tom Hanks, sent them a personalised Toy Story video are set to receive personalised toys from the actor.

The latest manifestation of Hanks’ goodness is a message he sent to Cork’s formerly conjoined twins, writes Terry Prone.

Hollywood superstar Tom Hanks has shot a special Toy Story video for Irish twins who were born conjoined after learning that they have kept their Woody and Buzz toys with them through 52 operations.

The boy who was killed in the light airplane crash in Offaly on Sunday afternoon has been remembered as a “happy, smiling young boy” by the principal of his school.

The mother of former conjoined twins has said a “lack of inclusive play centres” in Ireland is denying persons with disabilities a proper childhood.

A "ruthless" teenage asylum seeker has been jailed for at least 34 years for planting the Parsons Green Tube bomb which injured 51 passengers.

A pregnant woman who is due to give birth within days was assaulted and harmed by her husband on Sunday, it gardaí claimed yesterday.

Three men have been charged in connection with a blast which killed five people in Leicester.

Ciara Mageean has qualified for August’s World Athletics Championships in London, by dipping well inside the IAAF qualifying standard for the 1500m at tonight’s Golden Gala Diamond League meeting in Rome.

A mum who suffered from a personality disorder and stabbed her toddler son to death was sentenced to five years in prison at the Central Criminal Court this morning.

A mother who was suffering from a personality disorder described her two-year-old son as a "fake child" on the day she killed him by stabbing a pair of scissors into his neck, a court heard today

A woman has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her toddler son at their home in Dublin.

Fionnuala McCormack will have to overcome her Turkish nemesis at the European Cross Country Championships in Chia, Italy, tomorrow.

The president of the High Court has expressed concern at how a doctor with “such sub-standard medical knowledge” — including mistaking an ankle for an elbow in an X-ray — could have been employed in three different hospitals.

A doctor found guilty of professional misconduct has said his treatment during a public inquiry “will be fully paid for at an extremely bloody price for the people involved worldwide,” the High Court heard.

Three years ago, Ciara Mageean was unable to run, beset with injuries and staring down the barrel of career-threatening surgery.

The Rebel county is set to give the boys in green a huge Euro 2016 send-off at tonight’s international friendly against Belarus in Turner’s Cross.

The owner of a car swallowed up by a sinkhole said he was “thankful” his family were not hurt in the incident.

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From little fighters to lethal strikers — Ireland’s miracle twins, Hassan and Hussein, have been showing off their soccer skills.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Raqia Hassan risked her life by openly criticising ISIS on Facebook. Her friends, family, and fellow activists remember her determination to tell the world the grim truth about life in Syria. 

Manchester United’s chances of progressing in the Europa League are in the balance after they threw away the lead to go down 2-1 at FC Midtjylland in the first leg of their Europa League last-32 tie.

AN UNEXPECTED distraction reared its head as Anglo-French new wave rockers Savages were deep into recording their second album, Adore Life, last year, writes Ed Power

Concern over patient safety was central to the allegations brought forward against a doctor, a disciplinary inquiry heard yesterday.

A doctor’s insistence on attempting to insert a tube into a patient’s arm amounted to assault, an orthopaedic surgeon claimed yesterday at a disciplinary inquiry.

A young doctor’s clinical performance was “deficient” and he failed to take advice or show improvement, a disciplinary inquiry heard yesterday.