ROBERT HEFFERNAN bids to secure the Olympic 50km walk qualification time in Naumburg, Germany this weekend.

OLIVE LOUGHNANE gets the programme under way in the women’s 20k walk at 7.05am (Irish time) when she faces a field of just 23 in her quest to add a European Championship medal to her world championship medal and only Sonia O’Sullivan and Eamonn Coghlan have done that in outdoor competition before.

Spanish police testified in Cork today that they detained the 'Lucky Day' yacht and arrested the two crewmen on board - four days after €440m worth of cocaine were discovered off the coast of West Cork.

AFTER some spectacular performances on the road over the past three months, racewalker Robert Heffernan (Togher AC) returns to the track on Friday night when he will compete in a 5k event at the Grand Prix meeting in Lille.