ANNE LOUGHNANE (St. Raphael’s, Loughrea), set a new national junior and senior schools record in the 3,000m walk at the Kit Kat Irish Schools Championships at Tullamore on Saturday when the girls set three records.

WHILE all the other members of the Irish track and field team busied themselves packing and making their final preparations for this week’s European championships the “newest” sensation of the squad, Geraldine Hendricken, had other things on her mind.