Cork's Niamh McCarthy takes gold after Michael McKillop's silver at Para Athletics Euros

Team Ireland will return home from Poland with four medals in total
Cork's Niamh McCarthy takes gold after Michael McKillop's silver at Para Athletics Euros

Michael McKillop of Ireland  Photo by Luc Percival/Sportsfile

Niamh McCarthy brought the curtain down on a brilliant week for Irish Para Athletics at the European Championships as she claimed a second gold medal for Team Ireland in Bydgoszcz in Poland.

McCarthy went into the final of the F41 Discus event as the defending champion and outright favourite to defend her crown and she did not disappoint. 

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