DERVAL O’ROURKE diverted to Dublin en route from Thessalonika on Thursday night for an early morning check-up with Mark McCabe in advance of her appearance today at the Cork City Sports.

HOMETOWN favourite Derval O’Rourke is set to line out at the Cork City sports tomorrow, after overcoming injury concerns in Thessalonika on Wednesday night, according to her coach, Sean Cahill.

PAUL HESSION will defend his Cork City Sports 200m title at the CIT on Saturday but is unlikely to double up at 100m.

DERVAL O’ROURKE is set to share star billing with world silver medallist, Olive Loughnane, at Cork City Sports at the CIT Track in Bishopstown on July 3.

USAIN BOLT again stole the show before a sell-out attendance at the Ivo Van Damme Memorial Golden League meeting in Brussels last night setting a new stadium record when winning the 200m in 19.57 secs — only himself and Michael Johnson have run quicker.

JEREMY WARINER wants to break the stadium record in the 400m at the 33rd Belgacom Van Damme Memorial Golden League meeting in Brussels tonight – and Ireland’s David Gillick will have a part to play in the bid.

PAUL HESSION and Derval O’Rourke delivered the perfect ending to an exciting day for Irish athletics at the world championships in Berlin when they both qualified for today’s semi-finals of their respective events.

Paul Hession has completed a very encouraging day for Ireland at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin, qualifying for tomorrow evening's 200 metres semi-finals.

Irish champion Deirdre Byrne has failed to qualify from today's 1,500 metres heats at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin.

PAUL HESSION has made no secret of the fact that he will be going for a fast time at The Mardyke this evening when he will assume star billing for the men’s 200m at Cork City Sports.

PAUL HESSION bids to keep his unbeaten four-year record at the Mardyke intact when he competes in tomorrow’s Cork City Sports (2pm).

ALAN O’BRIEN (Crusaders) was relatively unknown when he won the IMC 800m at Cork City Sports last year.

PAUL HESSION faces a star-studded field in the 200m (4pm Irish time) at the world athletics finals in Stuttgart tomorrow.

PAUL HESSION, who looks a serious contender for a place in the final of the 200m at next month’s Olympic Games, doubles up in the 100m and 200m at The Mardyke today.

PAUL HESSION ran the fastest ever 200m — unfortunately wind-assisted — by an Irishman when finishing third at last night’s international athletics meeting in Thessalonika.

HOPES of having an Irish men’s 4x400m relay team at this year’s Olympics suffered a blow yesterday with the cancellation of the relay events at tomorrow’s meet in Salamanca, Spain.

PAUL HESSION singled out Brendan Christian (Antigua & Barbuda) as the favourite to win the race before he went to the line for last evening’s 200m at the Bislett Games Golden League meeting in Oslo and then went on to challenge him for the lead coming off the bend.