Mageean has sights on 1,500m record

LAST year, Ciara Mageean (Assumption, Ballinahinch) took her career to a new level when she broke Sonia O’Sullivan’s long standing national junior 800m record at the Irish schools track and field championships.

The then 17-year-old Portaferry girl won the 800m in a spectacular time of 2:05.38, inside the national junior record which Sonia O’Sullivan set at 2:05.78 at Meadowbank back in 1987.

On Saturday she will have her sights set on the 1,500m record when she returns to the Tullamore Harriers Track for the Woodies DIY Irish Schools Championships and, with the world junior championships in Canada later in the year her big focus, another record would boost her medal hopes.