Injury hell over, Mayo's Armstrong ready to take on the world this weekend

Hugh Armstrong's big summer goal is the half marathon at the Europeans in June.

Hugh Armstrong of Ireland competing in the marathon at the 2022 European Athletics Championships 2022. Picture: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

The injury list is a long one, but ahead of this weekend’s World Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, Hugh Armstrong is delighted to be talking about it in the past tense.

“Oh Jaysus, I had several,” he says. “There was a while there I was in an awful heap with a bad hip, bad back, bad knee, bad hamstring, achilles – everything.”