MTU new track ready for stacked fields at Cork City Sports meeting

Chief among the athletes is Phil Healy, who will race the 100m and 200m – the Bandon AC athlete taking on a loaded field over 100m that includes Anavia Battle, a finalist at the recent US Olympic Trials, and fellow US sprinter Celera Barnes, a 10.94 athlete.

NEW TRACK: Phil Healy with Maggie Cusack President MTU and MTU Vice President Finance & Operations, Paul Gallagher at the opening of the new track at MTU. Pic: Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus LTD .

The first big race is already run: the dash to the finish to get the track at Munster Technological University (MTU) completed on time. But now that it’s done, freshly lined and open for business, all that’s left is for some stars of Irish athletics to light it up.

With just a few weeks until they walk out at the Stade de France on the biggest stage of all, a horde of Paris-bound athletes will gauge their form against strong international opposition at tonight’s Cork City Sports, a Continental Tour bronze-level meeting.