Ian O'Riordan

Council and transport authority had demanded finish was taken away from Merrion Square North

He graduated as Dr O’Donovan last May, completed a few weeks of induction with plans to go into surgery, before putting all that on hold, exactly one year out from Paris

Looking at the time every few moments when running can make it seem much longer

First time two women athletes shared the honour after fourth-place finishes at the World Championships

Former back-to-back champion Fionnuala McCormack will make her 18th appearance at the European Cross-Country Championships in Brussels

Fiona Everard from Bandon won her first senior cross-country title on Sunday, less than 12 months after winning the novice title

Cormac Dalton and Fiona Everard survive brutal conditions to win first senior titles at National Cross-Country Championships

Garech Browne’s friend, who died in a fire at the Wicklow estate last month, had great stories to tell, from ‘visiting an opium den with Marianne Faithfull’ to the filming of Excalibur

Ian O'Riordan: In all my years of witnessing some of the world’s best distance runners, Cork native Mark Carroll was every bit as good

Dublin camogie star Emma O'Byrne: ‘I can’t think of anyone who wears the skort during training, so yeah, it’s just a matter of matchday’

Few Dublin footballers in history have ever enjoyed as consistent a level of success as Brian Fenton

No place on earth has a greater fascination with the weather than the seaport city of Seattle, and the University of Washington lies at the heart of it

Gavin Mulvey was a fourth-generation player and a stalwart for Glencullen’s local GAA club Stars of Erin

Most city marathons also sell themselves on famous landmarks along the route

After 10 seasons chasing Olympic qualification a summer date in Paris awaits