PAUL HESSION faces three of the top four from the world championships in the men’s 200m at the Van Damme Memorial Golden League meeting in Brussels this evening, with Tyson Gay the only missing medallist.

Alistair Cragg and David Gillick continued their build-up to next month's World Championships at the IAAF Golden League meeting in Rome tonight but the Irish duo both failed to make an impression in the Olympic Stadium.

PAUL HESSION will be chasing Paul Brizzell’s national 200m record at The Mardyke on Saturday afternoon when some of the world’s best athletes will assemble for Cork City Sports.

AFTER breaking the national 100m record for the second time this season with 10.18 secs for second place Saturday, Paul Hession put the finishing touches to a sensational weekend at the European Cup in Vaasa, Finland, by beating European silver medallist, Johan Wissman (Sweden), in the 200m yesterday.

Paul Hession produced a sensational display when he lowered his own Irish 100 metres record to claim second place at the European Cup Super League ’A’ match in Vaasa today.

DERVAL O’ROURKE finished last of the seven competitors in her Golden League 100m hurdles race at the Bislett Games in Oslo last night, in a time of 13.19 secs.

David Gillick looked sharp this morning as he negotiated through to tonight's 400 metres semi-finals at the 2007 European Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham.

JUST when he found himself resigned to skipping the indoor season altogether, European indoor 400m champion David Gillick finds himself back in the mix as favourite to retain his title in Birmingham this weekend.

THREE Irish athletes produced superlative performances in Mannheim over the weekend to qualify for next month’s world junior championships in Beijing.

Paul Brizzel became the fourth Irish track and field athlete to fail to make it out of the first round of their discipline at the Olympic stadium, but still managed a season's best of 21.00 seconds in his 200m heat.

THE tale of woe that has beset Irish race walkers continued in Athens yesterday when Olive Loughnane failed to finish the women’s 20km final.

Ballymena sprinter Paul Brizzel is through to this evening’s 200m semi-finals at the World Indoor Championships in the Sportarena, Budapest, after placing second in his first round heat this morning.