Athletics: Joyless night for Irish

It was a joyless seventh night for Ireland at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, as none of the Irish competitors in action managed to progress through the heats at the Commonwealth Stadium.

In fact, the best Irish performance of the night came away from the Championship complex - Galway’s Olive Loughnane finishing a more than creditable 13th in the Women’s 20 Kilometre Walk in a time of one hour, 35 minutes, 24 seconds.