Colin Jackson moved effortlessly towards a fourth-successive European Championships 110 metres hurdles title.

GERALDINE HENDRICKEN, Ireland’s athletic sensation of the season, will go into action this morning in the women’s 1,500m heats, which have an automatic place in Sunday’s final as the prize for the first three.

IAN THORPE launched his bid for seven Commonwealth Games gold medals by smashing the world 400m freestyle record at the Aquatics Centre in Manchester last night.

WITH national champion and record-holder Paul McKee and runner-up Rob Daly opting for the 200m, bronze medallist Antoine Burke will carry Irish hopes in a star-studded 400m at the Dublin International Games tonight.