Paul Robinson’s recent world best time of 4:17.9 for a mile run in sub-zero Antarctica recalled memories of a previous era when Ireland’s leading milers competed at elite level and helped to rewrite the record books.

Hortazelda Stadium in Madrid was an unlikely microcosm of the camogie world in 2017.

O’Sullivan was honoured with the accolade of Outstanding Contribution to the Olympic Movement in Ireland at the inaugural Olympic Council of Ireland Awards last night.

Frank Murphy was a two-time Olympian and European Championship silver medalist.

There was never any doubt that Thomas Barr would win the athlete of the year award at the Irish Life Health National Athletics Awards yesterday.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Ireland is famous for its traditions, particularly the overwhelming sense of connection and loyalty people still retain for their own community - be that a small village, a city, a county or even a province.

RTÉ should be congratulated for its magnificent coverage of the Olympic Games. 

The seaside village of Ardmore in Co Waterford will be the place to be this week as the annual summer Pattern Festival gets under way.

In the yellow taxi - literally - from JFK when the text comes through.

Gerard Hartmann has treated Olympic athletes in his Limerick clinic and he suspected some were doping. At the time, he blocked it out. Now innocence has been lost and maybe a lot more besides.

“Once an Olympian, always an Olympian.”

Sean Hehir and Pauline Curley stole the headlines winning the national titles at the SSE Airtricity Dublin marathon as Alemu Gemechu and Nataliya Lehonkova took overall glory ahead of a record entry of more than 15,000.

Arguably, the three most useful words in a sports fans vocabulary are ‘THE – YEAR — OF.’

Dublin teenager John Carroll is used to standing out from the crowd. At 6’8”, he may well be the tallest 18-year-old in the country, not that he spends much time here.

Robert Heffernan crowned a fairytale season when he was named Athlete of the Year at the National Athletics Awards at the Crowne Plaza in Dublin yesterday.

A few weeks ago we got in touch with David Quinn of the Iona Institute, well-known commentator on religious affairs.

Jedward-mania hit the streets of Dublin as the pop duo carried the Olympic Torch through the capital.

Jedward-mania hit the streets of Dublin today as the pop duo carried the Olympic Torch through the city.

The Olympic Torch has crossed the border on an historic visit to the Republic today in a symbol of the peace process.

It might be the closest Ireland ever gets to hosting the Olympics, but the visit of the Olympic torch to Dublin today is being celebrated like an Irish gold medal in the London games later this summer.

Bernard Brogan: The 28-year-old Dublin forward won his first All-Ireland last year and will add to his sporting achievements by carrying the torch.

More than 40 torchbearers will carry the Olympic flame through the streets of Dublin when it tours the only city outside the UK.

More than 40 torch bearers will carry the Olympic flame through the streets of Dublin when it tours the only city outside the UK.

Lost nowadays in all the enduring hype about Ronnie Delany’s 1500m gold medal at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne is the fact Ireland came back from Australia with four other medals; Fred Tiedt (silver), Johnny Caldwell, Fred Gilroy and Anthony Byrne (all bronze) — all in boxing.

Ireland’s brightest middle distance runners will be on parade in the US this weekend.

A NUMBER of high-profile sportspeople and celebrities will be asked to carry the Olympic torch when it makes its historic visit to Dublin on June 6 next year.

NEVER before has an Irish team carried so many medal hopes intoa major athletics championship – hopes that were reinforced by an air of optimism as the squad of 33 began to assemble at their base in Barcelona yesterday for the European championships.

Double World cross country champion and Olympic marathon silver medallist John Treacy is to be inducted into the Hall of Fame at the annual National Athletics Awards.

Joycean scholar, gay rights advocate and broadcaster, David Norris became a national treasure some time ago. In the wake of Donal Óg Cusack’s revelations last week, he spoke to Michael Moynihan about his own secret life within the GAA.

Shane LOWRY, 22, certainly helped to raise the spirit of the nation yesterday with his magnificent performance in winning the Irish Open Golf Championship at Baltray.

MARTIN FAGAN is set to become the first Irishman to win the Great Ireland Run while European indoor bronze medallist, Mary Cullen, is aiming to complete an Irish double by landing the women’s title.

Galway’s Paul Hession was named Athlete of the Year at tonight’s National Athletics Awards in Dublin.

FROM some of the early reports from Beijing it was beginning to look like we were going to have to be content that nobody drowned in the pool or got lost on the running track, but then the boxers came to the rescue. Sure we’re famous the world over for fighting.

THE Olympic Games have lost much of their glamour over the drug cheats.

Current world champion Betty Heidler posted a winning throw of 72.43 metres in a class-laden hammer event at Friday night's Morton Memorial meeting in Santry.

A knee injury has robbed Irish hammer champion Eileen O'Keeffe of the chance to compete in the strongest ever throwing event held in Ireland.

CAROLINA KLUFT has abandoned her hopes of competing at Cork City Sports on Saturday as a slump in form has sent the Olympic, world and European champion back to her training base in Sweden for some fine tuning.

WHATEVER happened to Johnny Giles? It might seem like a daft question to ask about one of the best-known people in Ireland, a man whose analysis of football, in the press and on television, is seen to carry the clout of papal infallibility, and whose own long and illustrious career as a player and manager was fittingly recognised in Dublin last night with his induction into the RTÉ/Irish Sports Council Hall of Fame.