Fagan to face Farah at European cross-country tests in Santry Demesne

IRELAND’S Martin Fagan will go head-to-head with Great Britain’s Mo Farah in the SPAR European cross-country championships at the Santry Demesne on December 13.

When Farah won the European title in Italy in 2006, Fagan was a spectator after he and a number of other Irish athletes went down with food poisoning.

Farah went on to win a silver medal at the European track and field championships in Gothenburg two years later but another cross-country title has eluded him. Following his big win in the Great South Run 10 mile road race in Portsmouth at the weekend, he identified the European cross in Dublin as his next big race.