John Coghlan held off London 2012 Olympic marathoner Mark Kenneally to take the St. Patrick’s festival 5k road race in Dublin city centre yesterday, a race organised by his father Eamonn Coghlan.

ATHLETICS: Fionnuala Britton opens her 2015 competition schedule at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country as part of Team Europe in Holyrood Park today.

Fionnuala Britton cut a frustrated figure when she finished fourth at the European Cross Country Championships in Belgrade yesterday, but vowed to bounce back from this disappointment.

Fionnuala Britton’s manager, Ian Chaney, insisted she will be focusing purely on her training, with media contact at a strict minimum, upon yesterday’s announcement of the Irish team for the European Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, Serbia on December 8.

Derval O’Rourke is the standout name of the athletes pre-selected for the European first league team championships at the end of the month.

“I’m not finishing fourth,” was Fionnuala Britton’s mantra in the last three laps of the 3,000m final as the teak tough Wicklow woman won a fighting bronze medal yesterday.

The Woodie’s DIY National Senior Indoor Championships are set for a major facelift this weekend in Athlone with some of Ireland’s top class athletes set to compete alongside the country’s leading club athletes.

Athletics Ireland High Performance Director Kevin Ankrom last night confirmed that a women’s team will compete at the World Cross Country Championships in Poland next month.

Fionnuala Britton, who takes on Olympic 5,000m champion Meseret Defar (Ethiopia) over 3,000m in Karlsruhe this weekend, was the headline athlete at the announcement of the new partnership between New Balance and Athletics Ireland last night.

Fionnuala Britton reigned supreme again at the Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross Country on Saturday confirming herself as the best cross country runner in Europe whilst also issuing a rallying call to Athletics Ireland to send a women’s team to the World Cross Country Championships in March.

Maria McCambridge won’t lack motivation when she contests today’s Dublin City Marathon.

RUGBY legends Keith Wood and Peter Clohessy yesterday signed up to become Ireland’s first sports ambassadors.

Double World cross country champion and Olympic marathon silver medallist John Treacy is to be inducted into the Hall of Fame at the annual National Athletics Awards.

EUROPEAN cross-country champion Sergey Lebid will defend his title at this year’s championships in Dublin. The Ukrainian will be aiming to win his ninth crown at Santry Demesne, Dublin on December 13.

Sonia O'Sullivan is one of six people due to receive honorary doctorates at University College Cork today.

MARTIN FAGAN is set to become the first Irishman to win the Great Ireland Run while European indoor bronze medallist, Mary Cullen, is aiming to complete an Irish double by landing the women’s title.

She may go into teaching, has dreamt of delivering post, but Sonia O’Sullivan will always be a runner — and an iconic sporting figure in this country. Liam Mackey kept lap times.

Sonia O’Sullivan has tipped training partner Benita Johnson to emerge victorious from a high-quality field in tomorrow’s Great Ireland Run in Dublin.

There is a general consensus that the fastest athletes in the World Cross Country championships

The Irish team are in a positive mood despite two withdrawals ahead of this weekend's World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh.

Ireland's men's team have suffered two withdrawals ahead of next week's World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh.

SONIA O’SULLIVAN has been named Australia’s team coach for the World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh.

Sonia O'Sullivan has been appointed as Australia's team coach for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh at the end of this month.

Ireland has today been awarded the right to host the 2009 European Cross Country Athletics Championships by the European Athletics Council.

Athletics Ireland in partnership with the ESB today announced the details of their Athlete Support Scheme for 2007.

Athletics Ireland announces Fionnuala Britton as sole competitor to travel to the World Cross Country Championships in Kenya.

ALISTAIR CRAGG has his sights set firmly on the European Indoor Championships in Birmingham on March 2/3/4, when he will defend his 3,000m title.

Two of Ireland's top athletes, Alistair Cragg and Gillian O'Sullivan, will be missing from August's World Championships in Helsinki due to injury.

Tirunesh Dibaba won in Carlsbad on Sunday and equalled Paula Radcliffe’s 5000m road-race record.

IRELAND’S hopes of carrying indoor track glory onto the world cross country stage this weekend received a blow when Alistair Cragg was forced to withdraw from the world championships due to injury.

NEW Irish 3000m indoor record holder Alistair Cragg was last night pondering his next move in this Olympic season following a remarkable run in the US at the weekend.

Fresh on the heels of her withdrawal from last weekend's Great North race in Newcastle, Ireland's Catherina McKiernan has pulled out of next Saturday's Belfast International event at Stormont.

FIVE years ago Catherina McKiernan came within two minutes of breaking Tegla Laroupe’s women’s marathon world record.

Simon Lewis looks at the events that captured the sporting imagination during 2002.

Olympic 5000 metres silver medallist Sonia O’Sullivan has been pre-selected by Athletics Ireland for next year’s IAAF World Indoor Championships.

Ethiopia has won the World Cross Country Championships today at Leopardstown. The 12,000 metre race was won by Bekele.

The Great Britain and Northern Ireland team for the World Cross Country Championships in Dublin has been named following the British Inter-Counties Championships in Nottingham on Saturday.

After surprising not only himself but top Ethiopian star Dagne Alemu when winning yesterday’s Race of Ireland International Cross Country, Matt O’Dowd wants even more races against foreign opposition.

Ireland made it a double win over England at the weekend when Ireland¹s

Ireland won the match, England won the Six Nations trophy - now all eyes

In the men’s race at the World Cross Country Championships in Ostend, home favourite Mohammed Mourhit retained his title.

An ankle injury will prevent Rosemary Ryan from taking part in the World cross Country championships in Ostend.

Dublin has received a boost with the news it will stage next year's World Cross Country championships.