Cathal Dennehy

Sarah Healy has finished an agonising fourth over 5,000m at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, the 25-year-old Dubliner clocking 15:40.95, with gold going to Italy’s Nadia Battocletti 15:37.84.

For Bori Akinola and Israel Olatunde, a European 100m semi-final was not where they wanted their individual campaigns to end in Birmingham. But neither could harbour many regrets.

Donegal athlete sets championship record of 1:43.49 as he goes up against Max Burgin for gold medal in Thursday night final

Donegal athlete sets championship record of 1:43.49 as he goes up against Max Burgin for gold medal in Thursday night final

There was no joy for Sophie Becker in the 400m semi-finals at the European Championships in Birmingham today, the Wexford sprinter finishing eighth in 52.47, slightly down on the season's best of 52.28 she had run in the heats.

Sean Aigboboh and Marcus Lawler came up short in the European 200m semi-finals in Birmingham this evening, with Aigboboh finishing fourth in his semi-final in 20.46 (2.9m/s) and Lawler eighth in his semi-final in 21.11 (1.6m/s).

Elsewhere, Cathal Doyle says he is ‘sick of this' after fall in 1,500m heat

She's got a chance. As Kate O'Connor heads into day two of the heptathlon at the European Championships in Birmingham, the Dundalk native has a very

Ireland men’s and women’s teams into tonight’s 4x100m relay finals as Healy and O’Sullivan book 1500m final places

There is class, there is consistency, and then there’s consistency of class. This is Kate O’Connor, the athlete who just keeps delivering, come what may. The Dundalk native who’s become the most bankable performer in Irish sport.