Enjoy the best of Irish athletics in its purest form

There’s one day in the athletics calendar that reminds those of us who love the sport of all the reasons we love it — the All-Ireland Schools’ Championships.

Athletics is a professional sport intertwined with some harsh realities, that even the biggest fans and competitors find difficult to ignore: drug busts, devastating injuries and the realisation that you are just not good enough to be amongst the world elite, which is sometimes the harshest reality of all.

Yet each year, there is one day that banishes all these aspects from our minds and we bask in the purity of the sport.