He made the podium at last month’s European Championships and now Waterford hurdler Thomas Barr is hell-bent on reaching greater heights in his blossoming athletics career.

Safe to say, the iconic Irish chat show is back with a bang.

Ireland's athletics team received a hero's welcome after the 40-strong team returned from the European Championships this afternoon to Dublin Airport.

Not content with winning bronze in the men’s 400m hurdles last night in Berlin, Thomas Barr showed off his hurdling skills in this morning's 4x400m relay race.

Another glorious night in Irish sport as Thomas Barr blitzed to bronze at the European Athletics Championships in Berlin, a dramatic 400 metres hurdles seeing epic duels for all the medals.

Thomas Barr has won bronze for Ireland in the European Athletics Championships in Berlin, with a magnificent finish to grab third place in the men’s 400m hurdles final.

Oliver Dingley has been forced to withdraw from the 3-metre springboard at the European Diving Championship in Edinburgh.

Two athletes, two races, 84 years of history, and the potential for one magic hour in the annals of Irish athletics.

Thomas Barr did enough last night, but if he is to harbour medal hopes in tomorrow night’s final of the 400m hurdles at the European Championships, much better will be needed.

Thomas Barr is into Thursday’s final of the men’s 400m hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in Berlin - while Phil Healy bowed out in the 100m semi-finals but is still satisfied with her progress made this season.

Thomas Barr is through to the final of the men’s 400m hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in Berlin.

Thomas Barr put in a fine performance to take third in the men's 400-metres hurdles at the Diamond League meeting in Oslo tonight.

Olympic hurdler Thomas Barr tells Clodagh Finn how diet changes have improved his performance and how life in the fast lane extends to a passion for drift car racing.

"It was insane. I was nearly more taken aback by that than when I was running in the stadium."

It was the hope that killed him. At the end of the most important race of his life, Thomas Barr leaned for the line with every fibre of his being, hoping but not knowing whether it was enough for a medal in the men’s 400m hurdles yesterday afternoon.

Five years ago, Thomas Barr's athletic coaches nicknamed him "Bambi", because of his complete lack of skill at jumping hurdles writes David Raleigh.

Thomas Barr’s fourth-place finish in the men's 400m hurdles final saw him denied Olympic bronze at the Engenhão Olympic Stadium in Rio, smashing his own Irish record in the process writes Will Downing.

Thomas Barr has said he can run even better than he already has in Rio.

Thomas Barr scorched to a new Irish record of 48.39 seconds in winning his 400m hurdles semi-final at the Rio Olympics writes Will Downing.

Thomas Barr has become the first Irish athlete to reach a 400m hurdles semi-final since Bob Tisdall in 1932.

TOP Irish athlete Thomas Barr knows the value of staying the course, even when he doesn’t win. 

For Olympic hopefuls, Mark English and Thomas Barr, the last few months had been nothing short of a nightmare, but the two great hopes for Irish athletics are now daring to dream once again.

One of athletics’ nights to remember has seen Usain Bolt claim his third 100 metres World Championship title, edging out Justin Gatlin by a solitary hundredth-of-a-second – but Mark English and Thomas Barr both bowed out of their respective semi-finals.

Thomas Barr and Mark English both did enough to qualify for tomorrow’s respective semi-finals at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing – in different circumstances.

Thomas Barr is targeting a final berth in the 400m hurdles at his maiden World Athletics Championships in Beijing at the end of this month.

Barr won his fifth national 400-metre Hurdles title on Day 2 of the Senior Track and Field Championships.

Ireland’s rising star over hurdles Thomas Barr claimed a podium finish this evening in his first IAAF Diamond League appearance.

Thomas Barr is European athlete of the month for April, rewarded for his European-leading 400m hurdles time of 49.08 to win at the Tom Jones Classic in Gainesville, USA, on April 24.

Thomas Barr was in scintillating form at the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational Meet in Florida on Friday, winning the 400m hurdles in 49.08 seconds — a world championship qualifying time.