Katie Taylor returned to winning ways, progressing to a bronze medal bout at the European Games in Baku yesterday.

Rob Heffernan’s bronze medal from the 2010 European Athletics Championships may have been four years overdue, but to receive it before a home audience at Cork City Hall last evening made the wait worthwhile.

The expected cross-country debate never materialised at the Athletics Ireland General Congress which finished ahead of schedule at the Moran’s Silver Springs hotel in Cork on Saturday, where Ciarán Ó Catháin was re-elected as president for a further two years.

I’m counting down the hours to the weekend’s World Indoor Championships as Sopot in Poland hosts the most important event of the global athletics calendar.

Olympic Decathlon champion Ashton Eaton has been confirmed among an impressive field for the inaugural Athlone International Grand Prix to be held later this month.

With grown men banging the blue-boarded track and a raucous crowd standing on their feet as John Travers broke eight minutes for the 3,000m, it truly was Super Sunday at the Woodie’s DIY National Indoor Championships in Athlone in a day to remember for Irish athletics aficionados.

Athlone IT’s indoor track can make Irish athletics stand out from the crowd, writes Feidhlim Kelly

Government TDs have urged Defence Minister Alan Shatter to revisit the decision to disband the army’s Western Brigade.

Derval O’Rourke’s participation in next month’s London Olympics is in doubt after she pulled out of yesterday’s defence of her 100m hurdles title at the Woodies DIY national championships in Morton Stadium.

A DOUBLE-JOBBING college lecturer has been blocked from claiming two pensions after concern was raised over lax governance standards in the third-level system.

A LECTURER who secretly double-jobbed by working in two colleges at the same time is likely to receive two pensions, it has emerged.

THE Fitzgibbon and Sigerson Cup competitions were officially launched at the Athlone Institute of Technology last night.

STUDENTS entering college must be made better aware in advance of what courses involve to prevent them dropping out early, according to the author of a major report on third level education.