Stars of the future impress at Irish Schools Track and Field Championships

Jamie Paul of Ballymena Academy, Antrim, fails a clearance whilst competing in the senior boys pole vault at the Irish Life Health All Ireland Schools Track and Field Championships at Tullamore. Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

A senior girls’ sprint double by Lucy-May Sleeman proved one of the highlights of the Irish Schools Track and Field Championships in Tullamore on Saturday, the Bruce College Cork student taking the 100m in 11.96 and backing it up with 200m gold in 24.78.

On a day that showcases the future stars of Irish athletics, Oliver Swinney of Dominican Portstewart earned the mantle of Ireland’s fastest schoolboy by powering to gold in the senior boys’ 100m in 10.59, with Nkemijika Onwumera second in 10.81. Padraic Hassett of Glenstal Abbey took the 200m in 21.82.