Ireland's Thomas Westgaard 'was seeing stars' in gruelling Winter Olympics debut

Ireland's Thomas Westgaard found his Winter Olympic debut harder than he ever imagined but was still proud to finish 60th in the gruelling 30km biathlon event in PyeongChang this morning.

“Despite that I didn't feel 100% I'm extremely proud to get my Olympic debut for Ireland. It's a big honour. I dreamed about this since I was 10 so this was a big day for me,” said the Norwegian born Irish cross-skier whose mother hails from Dunmore in Galway.