Róisin makes it to Turin

ROISÍN McGETTIGAN, who broke one of Sonia O’Sullivan’s old records when she finished fourth in the Reebok Women’s Mile at the Boston indoor meeting on Saturday, has been included in the Irish team for next month’s European Indoor Championships in Turin.

The Wicklow woman, a finalist in the Olympic steeplechase in Beijing last year, ran 4:30.06 for fourth behind Ethiopian Sentagehu Eigu and her split time at 1,500m was inside European qualifying standard.

Mary Cullen, a member of Ray Treacy’s elite group based in Providence, is also included. She went to within a second of another of Sonia’s records when finishing second in the women’s 5,000m at the same meeting in 15:18.34. The North Sligo athlete joins Deirdre Byrne, who posted her qualifying standard for 3,000m winning the national indoor title at the Irish indoor championships at The Odyssey on Saturday night.