O’Rourke chasing double

DERVAL O’ROURKE bids to claim national titles in the AAA championships in Birmingham on Saturday and the Woodies DIY Irish indoor championships in Belfast’s Odyssey Arena on Sunday.

Her coach, Sean Cahill, said the busy schedule is part of her build-up to next month’s European indoors in Paris.

Cahill explained: “She needs races and the plan is for two rounds on Saturday and two rounds again on Sunday and that will give her four runs. “After that we will have two weeks of sharpening before the Europeans. For one reason or another we have not done an awful lot of hurdles to date.”