Athletics scholarships set to lift the post-Athens gloom

A RAY of hope to illuminate the gloom that has enveloped Irish track and field since Athens?

Former world champion Eamon Coghlan and long-time athletics enthusiast Bill Cullen of Renault have teamed up to announce one of the largest corporate investments in third level sports scholarships in Ireland.

Over €200,000 from the Bill Cullen Scholarship Fund will be invested over the next three years to further the careers of six young DCU athletes with their sights set on Beijing in 2008.