Alex Wright
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National Indoor Championships: Explosive Phil Healy sets 200m record
- Other Sports
- February 29, 2020, 21:54
Bandon’s Phil Healy set the track alight with a championship record of 23.16 seconds in the women’s 200m on day one of the National Indoor Championshi(...)

Mark English’s late invite to Doha raises questions over IAAF qualifying process
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- September 22, 2019, 20:00
An eleventh-hour invite – or seven-day advance notice – will see Mark English in Doha for the start of the World Athletics Championships this Friday,(...)

Olympic medallist Annalise Murphy loses direct funding of €40,000
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- February 6, 2019, 15:58
A year and a half before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Rio Olympic silver-medal winning sailor Annalise Murphy has lost her direct funding from Sport(...)

Team Ireland at the European Athletics Championships
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- August 4, 2018, 06:00
Men Leon Reid (Menapians AC) 100m/200m (PB 10.33/20.27) Age: 24 After his 11th-hour transfer from Great Britain to Ireland (his late mother is Belfas(...)

Team Ireland request change of hotel to avoid vomiting bug
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- August 8, 2017, 14:56
Irish Athletics team manager Patsy McGonagle has requested those athletes yet to compete in London are accommodated at a different hotel to that curre(...)

World Athletics Championships: All you need to know
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- August 4, 2017, 10:00
So what’s the exact lowdown? The 16th World Athletics Championships, over 10 days, starting this Friday evening until Sunday week, back inside the Lo(...)

Rio 2016: Rob Heffernan moved up to fifth after gruelling 50km walk
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- August 19, 2016, 16:20
Ireland’s Rob Heffernan has been moved up to fifth place in the 50km race walk, after he originally came home sixth on a sweltering day Rio. Hefferna(...)

Rio 2016: Irish in action Day 14
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- August 19, 2016, 08:00
12:00pm - Athletics Ireland have three representatives in the 50km race walk, Robert Heffernan, Alex Wright and Brendan Boyce. Heffernan is the most (...)

Rio 2016: Irish in Action on Day Seven
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- August 12, 2016, 12:03
12.52pm - Golf After a round of level par 71 yesterday, Seamus Power kicks off the Irish action today alongside SSP Chawrasia and Lin Weng-tang. Ju(...)

Rio 2016: Irish in action on Friday
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- August 12, 2016, 07:00
12.52pm - Golf After a round of level par 71 yesterday, Seamus Power kicks off the Irish action today alongside SSP Chawrasia and Lin Weng-tang. Ju(...)