Phil Healy’s epic relay leg for UCC last month may have entered athletics folklore, but her first official attempt at the 400m left no one in doubt of her future potential over the one-lap distance.

Thomas Barr goes into Tuesday’s Cork City Sports ranked number three in Europe over 400m hurdles and he believes the home meet can help him in his quest for a medal at the European Championships in August.

HAD the Dublin footballers won last year’s All-Ireland title then virtually every county squad in the country would have been training this morning at 6.30am.

Bids for £50m (€55.6m) to build pre-Olympic training facilities in the North were rejected because they were submitted three minutes late, it emerged today.

OLYMPIC 400 metres champion Christine Ohuruogu will be the star attraction at the Woodie’s DIY Irish Indoor Senior Championships at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast, on February 7-8.