Cork's Maeve O'Neill breaks Irish indoor 800m record in Boston

It smashed her previous best and is also an outright Irish U-23 record, bettering Nadia Power’s outdoor mark of 2:01.01 from 2020.

NEW RECORD: Cork runner Maeve O'Neill.

Maeve O’Neill produced a huge breakthrough to set an Irish indoor 800m record last night, the 21-year-old Cork athlete clocking 2:00.33 at the Saucony Battle for Boston meet.

The track at Boston University is renowned for fast times and the Doheny athlete, a student at Providence College in Rhode Island, made full use of it to better the previous record of 2:00.58, set by Síofra Cléirigh Büttner in 2021.