World champion race-walking star Rob Heffernan has announced his retirement from international athletics.

Amy Foster has equalled the Irish indoor 60m record to qualify for March’s World Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, writes Will Downing.

Ireland’s disappointing campaign at the World Athletics Championships drew to a close earlier than planned on Sunday with Alex Wright suffering disqualification in the men’s 20k walk, writes Will Downing in London.

Rob Heffernan’s final major event has seen the former world champion finish eighth in the men’s 50k walk at the World Athletics Championships in London, writes Will Downing.

Ireland lie seventh after the middle day of the European Athletics Team Championships in the northern Finnish city of Vaasa, with Brian Gregan scoring the only Irish victory of day two, alongside eleven top-six finishes.

Mark English has become the latest Irish athlete to qualify for August's World Athletics Championships in London.

Ciara Mageean has qualified for August’s World Athletics Championships in London, by dipping well inside the IAAF qualifying standard for the 1500m at tonight’s Golden Gala Diamond League meeting in Rome.

Rob Heffernan has been restored to sixth place after an eventful Men's 50K walk in Rio.

Day Seven of the Olympic Games produced even more history from an Irish point of view, with the medals table reached finally at the end of the opening week.

Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana obliterated the 23-year-old 10,000 metres world record to claim the first athletics gold of the Rio Olympics.

China won their first gold medal of their home World Athletics Championships by sweeping a 1-2 finish in the women’s 20k walk in Beijing.

Mark English is through to tomorrow’s 800m final at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Prague.

A blistering opening morning session for the Irish team saw four athletes progress to semi-finals at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Prague.

You have to see these three goals!

Mark English is Ireland’s latest sporting hero, winning bronze in the men’s 800m at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich.

DICTIONARY CORNER

By Will Downing

A remarkable opening day for Ireland at the European Indoor Athletics Championships was narrowly denied a golden finish when Derval O’Rourke was edged out into fourth in the final of the women’s 60 metres hurdles.

The man with the future of Irish swimming in his hands feels that, while the standard is improving, there is still a long way to go before Ireland's swimmers will be world class.

John Joe Nevin is through to the last 16 in the bantamweight division at the Olympic Games in London. The fifth seed wasn't troubled in his first round fight, beating Denmark’s Dennis Ceylan 21-6.

Roberto Pavoni and Joe Roebuck failed to make it through to the final of the 400 metres individual medley which saw defending champion Michael Phelps only just scrape through on the first morning of Olympic competition.

Joanna Mills has said she is disappointed but not surprised by the decision that has seen her left out of the Irish Olympic 4x400 metres relay squad for a second time.

The United States have clinched four golds on the final day of the World Indoor Athletics Championships, a fifth was removed when the men’s 4x400m relay team was stripped of gold.

Ireland’s campaign at the World Indoor Athletics Championships drew to a close with North Down athlete Ben Reynolds being knocked out of the 60 metres hurdles at the semi-final stage.

Ben Reynolds has qualified for tomorrow’s semi-finals of the men’s 60 metres hurdles at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul.

Sycerika McMahon has qualified for the women's 100m freestyle at May's European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.

One of Irish swimming’s oldest records fell on day three of the Irish Long Course Swimming Championships and Olympic Trials, as 20-year-old Bethany Carson slipped under Michelle Smith’s 100m butterfly mark from 1996.

The Cork County Board are pouring cold water on speculation that John Allen has been suffering health problems.