Developers return to their roots with €14m residential project on historic Youghal site, writes Tommy Barker.

A couple whose house on a narrow street in Youghal was extensively damaged two years ago by a crashed car have narrowly escaped a repeat incident.

Predictably, for the first Ironman triathlon to take place in Ireland, the main obstacle proved not to be the gruelling race itself but the weather conditions that greeted more than 2,600 athletes on Claycastle Beach yesterday morning.

The swim route in today's Ironman event in East Cork has been cancelled due to the weather.

What makes a champion nervous?

The 2,300 men and women taking part in Ireland’s first ever Ironman think they are built for the long haul — but the event’s host town of Youghal is well ahead of them in the staying power stakes.

There will be some disruption and delays as East Cork hosts Ireland’s first full-distance Ironman this weekend but the regional benefits will be immense in the long-run.

The international sporting cavalcade is the biggest thing to hit the East Cork town since ‘Moby Dick’, writes Christy Parker

They once languished in Garda stations as unclaimed bikes, but now they’re getting a second life in Gambia, bringing children long distances to school.

Mother of three and grandmother of four, Eddie Brocklesby is focusing on completing her seventh Ironman next week in Mexico. Margaret Jennings speaks to the inspirational 75-year-old

Exercise is proven to get happy hormones pumping, but motivation isn’t great when your mental health is suffering. In Bressie’s new TV show, he helps depression and anxiety sufferers to rise to the challenge of an Ironman, says Colette Sheridan

Seventeen Irish swimmers this weekend tackle one of the most challenging open water challenges in Europe.

Even a serious training accident hasn’t dented Bryan Keane’s passion for triathlons.

Adventurer unbowed despite blindness and paralysis, says Suzanne Harrington

A Cork-born pharmacist has qualified for one of the toughest endurance events on the planet: the World Ironman Championships in Hawaii.

Musician Niall Breslin trains twice a day, six days a week for an Iron-Man challenge in May.

Forget the 10km runs, the triathlons, the Ironman challenges — Corkwoman Joanie Hanley has hit on a less stressful way of raising of few bob that’s also fun for all the family.

When it comes to fundraising for a worthy cause, it’s no harm having a superman in your corner.

A LARGE plate of steak and chips.

IT IS an inspiring story of what can be achieved by human determination.

THE first Ironman event to be held in Ireland is expected to be worth €25m to Galway’s economy over five years, organisers claimed yesterday.

WORLD football chief Sepp Blatter is under pressure after it emerged he oversaw the award of a €350 million World Cup contract to a company part-owned by the firm his nephew runs.

DNA experts are preparing to test what are believed to be the remains of millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, found in the wreckage of his plane.

ROY FAHY (East Cork) justified favouritism for yesterday’s Champion Sports Cork City Marathon and ensured the title remained at home with a 2:33:55 victory as Cork athletes filled the first three places in a field of 8,000 runners.

Swimming, cycling and running — all in the same event. Little wonder the sense of achievement for a triathlete is so immense. Simon Lewis spoke to seven-time national champion Ger Hartmann about a special event in Cork next week.

FOR someone whose sporting career had been brought to a sudden and traumatic halt by a horrific cycling accident 12 years previously, it took a huge amount of grit, determination and soul-searching for Ger Hartmann to get back on a bike not just once but twice in order to compete in the 25th Anniversary Ironman triathlon.

The British creators of a hi-tech balloon damaged at the start of a record breaking round-the-world attempt were today waiting anxiously to see if it can be repaired.