AS JOHN TREACY ran the finishing 100 metres of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic marathon, the RTÉ commentator, Jimmy Magee, listed 12 names.

The Sean Aherne-trained Kaitlin’s Fancy lit up Saturday’s 10-race Tipperary Foxhoundspoint-to-point meeting at Lisronagh by recording a battling success in the featured four-mile open lightweight.

Credit unions are accusing the Government of "tying their hands" at a time when people need their help most.

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.

Eddie Kinirons from Wicklow and co-driver, Greg Shinnors (Limerick), in a Toyota Celica, won the