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2025 sporting moments in pictures
S Cathal Dennehy: The unofficial athletics awards 2025
Cathal Dennehy talks us through his awards as the year comes to an end. 

Sat, 06 Dec, 2025

123.ie National Cross Country Championships Launch
S Cathal Dennehy: Allen finds calm in cross-country after whirlwind year of motherhood
It’s just under 15 months since the Leevale athlete gave birth to her daughter, Lily, and since then running has had to be demoted in her list of priorities.

Fri, 21 Nov, 2025

World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025 - Day 2
S Cathal Dennehy: Fionnuala McCormack might be the most underappreciated star in Irish sport
Wouldn’t it be great if the Dublin Marathon organisers could put an appearance fee on the table that’d make it worth Fionnuala McCormack’s while to line up in the coming years?

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025

20th European Athletics Championships - Friday 30th July
S Cathal Dennehy: Raw and insightful, David Gillick's story of a race well run
Those who David Gillick's autobiography will come away with a deeper understanding of elite athletics and what it took to become one of Ireland’s greatest sprinters.

Sat, 25 Oct, 2025

SPAR European Cross Country Championships Previews
'They didn't know anything about him': Corkman Curtin had South Korean commentators scrambling
Fearghal Curtin won the Gyeongju International Marathon in a new Irish record. 

Tue, 21 Oct, 2025

World Athletics Championships Oregon22 - Day Seven
S Cathal Dennehy: Athletics Integrity Unit's scorched earth policy paying off in war that can't be won
Eight years after its creation, the Athletics Integrity Unit has transformed track and field’s fight against doping, from exposing once untouchable stars to challenging lenient rulings

Fri, 10 Oct, 2025

World Athletics Championships Oregon22 - Day Four
Laura Muir’s former athletics coach Andy Young gets three-year ban for serious misconduct
Andy Young’s ‘bullying’ has led to a ban backdated to April 2023. His actions included abandoning athlete by roadside

Tue, 30 Sep, 2025

Greta Streimikyte 28/9/2025
Streimikyte and Comerford strike double gold for Ireland at World Para Athletics Championships
Comerford set a new championship record in the T13 100m.

Sun, 28 Sep, 2025

Team Ireland Athletics Pre-Games Training Camp Announcement - Fontainebleu
'It’s a seismic change' - Paul McNamara reflects on the rise of Irish athletics
McNamara points to improved connectivity between athlete-coach pairings, high-performance staff and support services. Increased investment has been key.

Tue, 23 Sep, 2025

World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025 - Day 8
S Kieran Shannon: Kate O’Connor proves she belongs among the world's best all-rounders
Kate O’Connor’s silver medal in the Tokyo heptathlon was more than a podium finish. It confirmed her place among the world’s most complete athletes, in a discipline that demands speed, strength, endurance, and resilience in equal measure.

Tue, 23 Sep, 2025

A Unifil flag fluttering over Southern Lebanon
Irish Examiner view: United Nations a long way from what is required
Today, the UN looks far from the organisation once described by the second secretary general, Norwegian Trygve Lie, as having been created 'not to bring us to heaven, but to save us from hell'

Tue, 23 Sep, 2025

World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025 - Day 9
This is the golden age — Ireland has never had a World Championships like this
What the 28-strong team did at the Japan National Stadium was simply exceptional

Mon, 22 Sep, 2025

Cian McPhillips celebrates winning the semi-final ahead of Max Bergin as he crosses the finish line setting a new national recor
S Cathal Dennehy: Cian McPhillips' talent was hiding in plain sight, now everyone can see it
At events like the World Championships, it's easy to tell when an Irish athlete is making a big impact: journalists from other nations start asking about them. He goes in the 800m final at 2:22pm on Saturday. 

Sat, 20 Sep, 2025

World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025 - Day 8
Kate O'Connor still on track to win heptathlon medal after 'solid' long jump
Kate O'Connor is in fourth place heading into the javelin and 800m, the final two events of the heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships. She is on course to win Ireland's first medal at the championships in 12 years. 

Sat, 20 Sep, 2025

World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025 - Day 7
Spectacular day one puts Kate O'Connor firmly in heptathlon medal hunt at Worlds
O'Connor set personal bests in the 100m hurdles, high jump and 200m. She is second in the standings heading into day two. 

Fri, 19 Sep, 2025

Day 4 - World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025
S 'I’m training in the streets': Palestine’s lone Worlds athlete pleads for end to genocide
Mohammed Dwedar hopes to travel to Germany for a training block ahead of the Islamic Solidarity Games in Saudi Arabia in November. "I can get a medal for Palestine," he said. "It will be difficult, but I can do it."

Wed, 17 Sep, 2025

World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025 - Day 2
Almost 41 and mother of three, Fionnuala McCormack rallies again to finish ninth in World Championship marathon
Elsewhere in Tokyo Sunday, Nicola Tuthill reached the final of the women’s hammer, Andrew Coscoran advanced to the 1500m semi-finals and Sarah Lavin survived an early scare to power into the semi-finals of the 100m hurdles.

Sun, 14 Sep, 2025

World Athletics Championships Oregon22 - Day Three
S Cathal Dennehy: Meet the Mongolian marathon runner who just keeps showing up
Ser-Od Bat-Ochir has run at 12 straight World Athletics Championships and six straight Olympic Games. On Monday morning, he will be on the line at this year's championships in Toyko. 

Fri, 12 Sep, 2025

Adeleke absence diminishes Irish Worlds hopes, fears Heffernan
Adeleke absence diminishes Irish Worlds hopes, fears Heffernan
Rob Heffernan would love to pass on mantle as Ireland's last medalist at a World Athletics Championships

Thu, 11 Sep, 2025

SPAR European Cross Country Championships 2024
S Five stars who could light up the World Athletics Championships
American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won bronze at the Olympics last year but has returned in 2025 looking an altogether different prospect.

Wed, 10 Sep, 2025

Cork's McElhinney and Nicholson among four Irish athletes to receive World Championship invitations
Cork's McElhinney and Nicholson among four Irish athletes to receive World Championship invitations
The 28-athlete team will be the biggest Ireland has ever sent to the championships. 

Mon, 01 Sep, 2025

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S Cathal Dennehy: Grand Slam Track made big promises but now looks a busted flush
When Grand Slam Track cancelled their event in LA ending its season early, it posted that they “have been and will be a league dedicated to transparency.” That’s up for debate.

Sat, 30 Aug, 2025

Rhasidat Adeleke after finishing fourth 9/8/2024
Rhasidat Adeleke to miss World Championships due to 'injuries and continuous setbacks'
Adeleke had qualified for next month’s World Championships in Tokyo in both the 200m and 400m.

Mon, 18 Aug, 2025

Cathal Dennehy: The record-breaking run that still bonds four Irish athletics greats
S Cathal Dennehy: The record-breaking run that still bonds four Irish athletics greats
In August 1985, Eamonn Coghlan, Marcus O’Sullivan, Frank O’Mara and Ray Flynn broke the world 4 x mile record at Belfield to raise money for famine ravaged Ethiopia. 

Sat, 16 Aug, 2025

World Athletics Championships Oregon22 - Day Two - Eugene
US sprinter Fred Kerley provisionally suspended for whereabouts failures
Kerley is a two-time Olympic 100m medallist and was 100m world champion in 2022.

Tue, 12 Aug, 2025

2025 World Athletics Relays - Day 2
Conor Kelly wins 400m gold for Ireland at Euro U20 Championships
Kelly is the ninth Irish athlete to have won gold at the championships

Sat, 09 Aug, 2025

2024 European Athletics Championships - Day Five
Anika Thompson strikes gold as Nicola Tuthill wins silver at European U-23 Championships
Thompson was raised in Oregon but qualifies to represent Ireland through her Cork grandparents while Tuthill hails from Kilbrittain.

Fri, 18 Jul, 2025

World Athletics Championships 2023 - Day 2
Ciara Mageean reveals she has been diagnosed with cancer
The European 1500m champion and Olympian announced on Friday evening that she has been diagnosed with cancer and has already started treatment. 

Sat, 05 Jul, 2025

2025 World Athletics Relays - Day 2
Jack Raftery and Sharlene Mawdsley impress for Ireland at European Team Championships
Ireland are in the hunt for promotion at the European Team Championship. 

Sat, 28 Jun, 2025

Sportsfile Images of the Year 2024
With Faith Kipyegon, Nike hopes to make history, and win back female runners
Any record Kipyegon sets on Thursday would be unofficial, as she will have pacers and won't be in an official competition.

Wed, 25 Jun, 2025

Grand Slam Track - Philadelphia
S Cathal Dennehy: Grand Slam Track future uncertain after first season fails to cross finishing line
Over two months after Grand Slam Track's first event, many athletes have not received their full prize money from Kingston, though they’ve been assured they will get it.

Sat, 14 Jun, 2025

Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Day 14 - Athletics
S As his peers slow down, Mark English is only getting better
In the 800m at the Oslo Diamond League meeting on Thursday, Mark English will race five of last year's Olympic finalists.

Thu, 12 Jun, 2025

Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Day 14 - Athletics
Rhasidat Adeleke returns to speciality at Oslo Diamond League meeting
The 22-year-old will race her first 400m of the season in a field featuring Natalia Bukowiecka and Amber Anning. 

Thu, 12 Jun, 2025

Mark English 7/6/2024
Mark English smashes Irish 800m record to take victory in Hengelo
The 32-year-old from Donegal is the first Irishman to run under 1:44 for 800m. 

Mon, 09 Jun, 2025

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Sarah Healy sprints to Diamond League victory in Rome
"I know I’m good at hard, fast races, but races like this were more where I struggled so I’m really, really happy to win – it’s really cool.” 

Fri, 06 Jun, 2025

Your sport on TV this week: Limerick v Cork, Kilkenny take on Galway and Leinster welcome Glasgow Warriors
Your sport on TV this week: Limerick v Cork, Kilkenny take on Galway and Leinster welcome Glasgow Warriors
It is another action packed weekend of sport on TV this weekend with the Munster SHC final seeing Limerick take on Cork, in the Leinster SHC decider Kilkenny take on Galway while in the URC semi-final Leinster welcome Glasgow Warriors to Dubin - all you need to know here.

Thu, 05 Jun, 2025

2025 World Athletics Relays - Day 2
Irish women's 4x400m team book Tokyo spot at World Relays
Mawdsley produced another foot-perfect anchor leg to carry them to victory in 3:24.69 ahead of Australia (3:27.31) and Switzerland (3:32.37), leaving them with an overall 12th-place finish.

Sun, 11 May, 2025

Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Day 14 - Athletics
Rhasidat Adeleke sprints to second place at Diamond League
Adeleke said she and her coach have taken a different approach to this season with September's World Championships in Tokyo very much to the fore of their thoughts. 

Sat, 03 May, 2025

World Indoor Athletics Championships - Day One
Andrew Coscoran claims thrilling win at Grand Slam Track in Miami
The win puts the Dubliner in line for the biggest payday of his career on Sunday.

Sat, 03 May, 2025

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S Cathal Dennehy: Playing multi-sports in childhood can help form champions like Duplantis
“It’s really important to follow your passion, follow your gut, and if you really enjoy something, just dive right in to it.”

Fri, 25 Apr, 2025

Pat Naughton Feature
92 years of dedication: Remembering Pat Naughton, the man who never stopped competing
Ever year since 1972, Tipperary native Pat Naughton won national masters medals. That included last August in the over-90 category. 

Wed, 23 Apr, 2025

2025 Boston Marathon
Sharon Lokedi breaks Boston Marathon course record by 2.5 minutes
Fellow Kenyan John Korir recovered from a starting line fall to join his brother as a race champion — the first relatives to win the world’s oldest and most prestigious annual marathon

Mon, 21 Apr, 2025

17th IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 - Day nine
S Cathal Dennehy: Athletics should know better than lauding Justin Gatlin as a legend
There was something deeply unsettling about seeing Gatlin trackside in the VIP area at athletics' newest event. 

Sat, 12 Apr, 2025

Cork's 80-year-old world masters champion still long way from finish line
Cork's 80-year-old world masters champion still long way from finish line
What keeps Michael Kiely running at 80? “The number one thing is you maintain your health better,” he says.

Tue, 25 Mar, 2025

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