Locked-down athletes are told stay away from National Senior Championships

Athletics Ireland CEO Hamish Adams

Athletics Ireland CEO Hamish Adams has said that if the current lockdown restrictions are extended for Kildare, Laois and Offaly, the onus will be on athletes from those counties to avoid attending next week’s Irish Life Health National Senior Championships.

The championships will be staged in Santry across two weekends on 22-23 and 29-30 August but if the current restrictions – set to expire at midnight on Saturday 22 August, hours before the first event – are extended, athletes from those counties could be frozen out.