Paul Robinson and Ciara Mageean starred at the NYRR Fifth Avenue Mile in New York on Saturday, taking some prized scalps with third place finishes in their respective races.

Ireland’s brightest middle distance runners will be on parade in the US this weekend.

JAMES NOLAN and Roisín McGettigan got their Olympic years off to flying starts at the weekend’s Reebok Boston Indoor Games with encouraging runs in their respective mile races.

TWO-TIME Irish Olympian Sinead Delahunty-Evans will attempt to relive past glories when she goes to the line in the renewed Fifth Avenue Mile in New York tomorrow.