Dublin may have had 30,000 runners pounding its streets in the women’s mini marathon but all attention went Lee-side.

Denis Kelleher is used to running long-distance as sighted guide to a vision- impaired athlete but the shoe will be on the other foot when he runs a marathon blindfolded.

A 32-year-old IT worker won her second consecutive Evening Echo Women’s Mini Marathon in Cork yesterday, just one week after she added the Killarney Mini Marathon to her belt.

The President and the Government today congratulated Co Cork athlete Derval O’Rourke on winning gold at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow.