IT has been a truly memorable two weeks for Irish sport.

FRESH from another national record at Virginia Tech, where he jumped eight metres for the first time indoors to equal his outdoor mark, Ciaran McDonagh will be a top attraction at the national indoor championships at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast over the weekend.

COLIN COSTELLO, the newly crowned European junior 1,500m champion, will chase Ray Flynn’s junior mile record in the Morton Mile at the Dublin International in Santry on Saturday.

THE fall-out from the BUPA Cork City Sports was evident at the national junior and under-23 championships staged at the CIT Track in Bishopstown yesterday, where the sprinters grabbed much of the limelight.

OLYMPIC long jump champion, Dwight Phillips, was among the early arrivals as the stars for tomorrow’s BUPA Cork City Sports at The Mardyke began to assemble yesterday.

TURNOVER at Bennigan’s first restaurant in Ireland is set to beat expectations by 50%, encouraging the Irish franchise owners as they proceed with a €25 million investment to open a chain of 20 outlets.

ANNE LOUGHNANE (St. Raphael’s, Loughrea), set a new national junior and senior schools record in the 3,000m walk at the Kit Kat Irish Schools Championships at Tullamore on Saturday when the girls set three records.

New Zealander Lee Tamahori has high praise for Meathman Pierce Brosnan - he reckons he saved the Bond series.