Interview: Fionnuala Britton
Fionnuala Britton talks about her 1500m victory at the Indoor Championships in Athlone
Fionnuala Britton talks about her 1500m victory at the Indoor Championships in Athlone
Fionnuala Britton turned on the style at the National Indoor Atheltic Championships in Athlone, claiming a confident victory in the final of the women's 1500m.
Andrew Meegan from Aer Lingus SC broke Steven Manley's seven-year-old 1500 metre Freestyle Short Course record on Sunday in the Berlin leg of the World Cup series.
Michael McKillop tells Adrian Eames that his 1,500m gold medal win went exactly to plan
Catherine McKillop tells of the privilege and honour she felt at being allowed to present her son Michael with his 1,500m gold medal
Michael McKillop won Ireland's fifth gold medal of the London 2012 Paralympics as he established himself as the world's greatest Paralympic middle-distance runner in the Olympic Stadium.
Michael McKillop: 800m, 1,500m
James Brown: track - 1km time trial, 4km individual pursuit. Road - time trial, road race
Asli Cakir Alptekin led a Turkish 1-2 when she held off Gamze Bulut to win the women's Olympic 1,500 metres gold after delivering a powerful final lap in a tactical, bunched race.
Algeria's Taoufik Makhloufi won the men's 1,500 metres Olympic gold medal, a day after he had been thrown out of the event for not trying in his 800 metres heat then reinstated.
Ireland won five medals at the 1956 Melbourne Games, with Ronnie Delany's 1500m gold the pick of the bunch.
Ciaran O'Lionaird: 1500m
Ireland's Michael McKillop set a new world record after taking a staggering 15 seconds off his 1,500m best time at the Visa London Disability Athletics Challenge in the London 2012 Olympic Stadium.
Ronnie Delaney recalls his Melbourne Olympics heroics 55 years to the day since his gold medal performance in the 1500m.
Ciaran O'Lionaird produced an impressive sprint finish in a slow and tactical men's 1500m heat to secure qualification for the semi-final at the World Championships in Daegu.
Ciara Mageean (City of Lisburn AC) improved her own Irish junior 1,500m record last night.
Gráinne Murphy narrowly missed out on a place in the 1500m freestyle final after finishing 10th overall in the heats at the World Swimming Championships.
Ireland's Ciara Mageean has won a silver medal in the women's 1,500m at the 21st European Junior Athletics Championships, Estonia.
Recently crowned national indoor 1500m champion Mary Cullen has confirmed her entry to the SPAR Great Ireland Run 10km which takes place in the Phoenix Park on Sunday, 10 April.
Mary Cullen won the 1,500 metres final at the Irish Indoor Championships on Sunday.