The biggest story in sport this week was not really a story about sport. At least, not on the surface.

In the realm of Irish distance-running, this was the best performance for many years – a two-hour, 24-minute reminder to those in Athletics Ireland of what might have been.

Behold the everyday hero, rich in commitment, but struggling to keep pace.

Three people have been killed in protests over the repeat of the presidential election in Kenya, police said.

The leader of Kenya's main opposition party has urged his supporters to boycott a rerun of the country's disputed presidential election amid rising political tensions and fears of violence.

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has urged his supporters to skip work on Monday to protest against what he claims were rigged elections that gave victory to President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Sir Mo Farah insists it is the right time to quit the track despite missing out on a fairytale finale.

In an escalation of Kenya's deadly election violence, police have fired live ammunition at rioters and used tear gas on vehicles carrying opposition officials.

Furious Usain Bolt admitted he must improve his start as he plots a winning farewell at the World Championships.

It was a noise unlike anything I had heard before — a cacophonous racket of cheers, screams and thuds all blended together in a two-minute symphony. It built and built to one euphoric eruption, and once it happened all you could do was stand there in awe, aware once again that for all its flaws, there is nothing quite so invigorating as sport.

The International Criminal Court embodied the hope of bringing warlords and demagogues to

Runners are the most supportive group of sports people you will come across.

Equality, not nationalism, was at the heart of the struggle, says Ben Philips

A drill to test terrorism preparedness at a leading Kenyan university led to a stampede in which one person died and 20 others were injured, the institution said.

Mo Farah put a summer of speculation behind him to make it half a dozen global titles as he again proved unbeatable over 10,000 metres at the World Championships in Beijing.

The race of the championships

Declaring Kenya at a “crossroads” between promise and peril, President Barack Obama pressed the nation of his father’s birth to root out corruption, treat women and minorities as equal citizens, and take responsibility for its future.

In recent times Kenyan distance runners have become regular visitors to Ireland where they run for local clubs and hoover up prizes on the road racing scene before returning to the Rift Valley.

Gemma Steel denied Fionnuala Britton a maiden victory in a fascinating duel in blustery conditions in the Phoenix Park at the SPAR Great Ireland Run 10km on Saturday.

Get a taste of some of the interesting and quirky happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

KENYA:

BEFORE I knew that Nelson Mandela existed, I thought our then-leader, Kenyan president Daniel Toroitich arap Moi, was the world’s only statesman. I was five years old, and no world existed for me outside Nairagie Enkare, my birthplace in rural Maasailand.

Marathon legend Dick Hooper believes there is “a golden opportunity” for domestic winners of Monday’s Airtricity Dublin Marathon with no elite foreign entries toeing the line due to budgetary constraints.

A worldwide alert has been issued for the arrest of the Northern Ireland-born woman terror suspect dubbed the “White Widow”.

Kenyan troops were still searching for bodies in the wreckage of the Nairobi shopping mall today as its terrorist al-Shabab attackers tried to claim the destruction was not their fault.

Troops have wrested control of nearly all the Nairobi shopping mall two days after it was seized by armed Islamic terrorists who killed at least 62 people, the government claimed tonight.

At least 59 people were killed and 175 others wounded in a terror attack at a shopping centre in Nairobi, the Kenyan government said today.

Kenyan security forces remain locked in a stand-off with terrorists in a Nairobi shopping centre nearly 24 hours after the gang opened fire in the building, killing at least 39 people.

Athletics Ireland chairman of High Performance Ray Flynn described Robert Heffernan’s victory in the 50km race walk as the “best day of my athletics life” and that the main message of the Corkman’s performance was to “the athletes themselves.”

Mo Farah dragged himself out of bed at 6am to move a step closer to the double-double by cruising through his 5,000 metres heat at the World Championships in Moscow.

Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo was arrested by Kenyan authorities three years ago because they feared he was attempting to join an al Qaida-linked militant group, the country’s anti-terrorism police have said.

Before the Off the Ball team went off the air, Jerry Kiernan went off the wall on the show.

Kenya was hit by a series of terrorist attacks today as millions waited in long queues to vote in the presidential election.

Multiple attacks against security forces in Kenya have killed at least 12 people as queues built up to vote in the country’s first general election for five years.

Kenyans began casting votes today in a nationwide election seen as the country’s most important – and complicated – in its 50-year history, five years after more than 1,000 people were killed in poll-related violence.

A witch doctor in Barack Obama's ancestral village has predicted a win for the local boy.

He arrived in East Africa in 1976 with scant interest in athletics, but 36 years later, this Corkman, a Christian Brother teacher, is considered the foremost athletics coach in Kenya, and one of the most regarded in the world.

We gape as they snake up and up, the chocolate box backdrop not breathtaking because they have none to spare.

The journalist Adharanand Finn was shocked at the conditions he discovered when he entered the training camp of one of the most successful distance runners in the world.

A 30-year-old woman collapsed and died while running in the London Marathon, organisers said.

Ireland’s cricketers got their ICC World Twenty20 qualification campaign back on track with an empathic 10-wicket win over Kenya.

Ciáran Ó Lionáird got his Olympic year off to a sensational start at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston on Saturday night when he won a drama-packed men’s mile in a new pb of 3:56.01.

Ciarán Ó Lionaird hopes to get Olympic year off to a flying start at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston on Saturday.

Four leading Kenyans have been ordered to stand trial at the International Criminal Court accused of planning the deadly wave of violence that followed the country's 2007 presidential election.

A decision by the International Criminal Court is due today on whether six influential Kenyans - including two presidential contenders - accused of helping to orchestrate violence that killed more than 1,000 people following disputed elections in 2007 will face prosecution.