Photographer Billy Stickland rewinds through 25 years of Ireland ’s award-winning Inpho Sports Agency and tells the stories behind some of his own most memorable shots. Liam Mackey reports.

She may go into teaching, has dreamt of delivering post, but Sonia O’Sullivan will always be a runner — and an iconic sporting figure in this country. Liam Mackey kept lap times.

Seventeen of Ireland’s leading young sporting talents were honoured today at the Irish Examiner National Junior Sports Stars Awards in association with tvthree.