MARTIN FAGAN’S participation in next month’s Houston Marathon will depend on the outcome of a meeting today with officials at the US embassy in Ballsbridge.

ATHLETICS Ireland have been in touch with the Department of Foreign Affairs asking them for assistance in getting Martin Fagan’s status rectified so that he can re-enter the US and pursue his Olympic dream.

THE Olympic qualification hopes of athlete Martin Fagan suffered a major blow last night when he was refused re-entry into the US as he returned from Sunday’s European Cross-country Championships in Toro.

A teenager who asked a friend to phone a bomb threat to the Philadelphia airport to avoid missing her flight to London was sentenced today to a year in prison.