Olympic decathlon champion Ashton Eaton broke the 60 meter stadium record at tonight’s Athlone IT Grand Prix.

For a small country, Ireland has an outstanding record in the fiercely competitive world of athletics, a reputation now stunningly embellished by the Cork City racewalker Rob Heffernan.

Irish race-walking legend Olive Loughnane has announced her retirement from international

Pic 1: Olympic gold medal-winning boxer Katie Taylor, with Brigid Dooley, at the launch of commentator Jimmy Magee’s autobiography Memory Man at The Havelock suite in the Aviva Stadium.

A Fine Gael Senator and former Irish Athlete has said PE should be a Leaving Cert subject.

Hundreds of grieving mourners will gather to pay tribute to Olympic medallist Darren Sutherland today as he is laid to rest a week after being found hanged.

GRIEVING mourners gathered in an Irish church last night on the eve of the funeral of Olympic boxer Darren Sutherland, found dead in his London flat a week ago.

Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world are expected to throng the streets of Dublin today for the annual St Patrick’s Day parade.

The family of millionaire businessman Patrick Rocca, have been left numb by his sudden death, mourners at his funeral were told today.

ALL art is quite useless according to Oscar Wilde but these three paintings could prove very useful to People in Need.

ALISTAIR CRAGG will go head-to-head with Australian distance star Craig Mottram in Boston next weekend, it was confirmed last night.

Derval O'Rourke hopes to join a select group of Irish athletes when she guns for glory in Gothenburg next week.

THE organisers of the Special Olympics in Ireland yesterday appealed to businesses and ordinary people to help them stage the biggest sporting event in Belfast this year.

One of the country’s most exciting athletics prospects, teenager David McCarthy, is the twelfth and final monthly Park Hotel Waterford Sport Star winner for 2004.

DURING the Cold War, governments used sport for political ends. The communists pointed to the successes of their athletes as proof of the superiority of their system.

FAVOURITE Andrew Ledwith (North Monastery) will have to reproduce the form he displayed at the national inter-club championships to lift the senior boys’ title at the Kit Kat Irish Schools Cross-Country in Antrim on Saturday.

THIS is a confusing time to be Irish. Digesting Ireland’s World Cup loss last Saturday morning to Australia, the international reaction led to a sense of satisfaction, a sense of pride that we are finally being accorded a little real respect on the big stage.

Ireland’s Gillian O’Sullivan walked her way into the history books at the World Championships in Paris today.

A new president for the Olympic Council of Ireland will be decided at its annual general meeting this evening.

Richard Burrows' campaign to win the presidency of the Olympic Council of Ireland has received a boost with the news that he has the backing of three former Olympians.