Young guns recognised for their achievements

THE fastest woman in Ireland slowed down for a few hours at the weekend to accept a national award for high-achieving young people.

Ailis McSweeney, 28, from Cork, was honoured by Junior Chamber Ireland (JCI) for breaking one of the longest standing records in Irish athletics.

Michelle Carroll set the national 100-metre sprint record for women in 1978 — five years before Ailis was born — with a time of 11.43 seconds.