National Indoor Athletics: Open road as Ciara Neville puts dark days behind her

Ciara Neville’s life in the fast lane seemed to be running on fumes long before the Castletroy teenager had even gotten into top gear but a hard edge and support now sees her on the cusp of her first senior international championship.

Neville goes into the women’s 60m at the Irish Life Health National Senior Indoor Championships at the Sport Ireland National Indoor Arena in Abbotstown as the favourite with a berth on the Irish team for the European Indoor Championships in Belgarde next month in the offing.

It has been far from a clear road for the fifth year student in Castletroy College who came to prominence when running 7.45 seconds for the 60m at the national indoors two years ago in Athlone. She was just 15.