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Aaron Beggs of North Down Athletic Club stopped on Boylston Street to help this lad over the finish line of Monday's Boston Marathon. Brazilian runner Robson Oliveira gave up a PB to add further help.

@BelLiveSport Why are you filming a funeral?

Ireland and Man Utd legend Roy Keane paid a loving tribute to his mother at her funeral in Cork today. Keane said he rarely went against the wishes of his mother but would do so on this occasion by making a “fuss’ about her at her funeral RIP Marie

The lunacy of 2 different football teams and associations on our small island laid bare once again tonight. All-Ireland football team now.

@ianoriordan You'd first have to prove demand exceeds supply. Last year 4000ish DNS. Implement a proper transfer system to fill the existing 22500 places before any 2nd day crap.

... could this be the future of big city marathons? Might just ease some of that crush on the Dublin Marathon ballot too

Irish World Indoors Medals ☘️ 2026 - Kate O’Connor (Pentathlon) 🥉 2025 - Kate O’Connor (Pentathlon) 🥈 2006 - Derval O’Rourke (60m Hurdles) 🥇 2004 - Men’s Relay Team (4x400m) 🥉 2003 - Paul McKee (400m) 🥉 1997 - Sonia O’Sullivan (3000m) 🥈 1993 - Marcus O’Sullivan (1500m) 🥇 1991 - Frank O’Mara (3000m) 🥇 1989 - Marcus O’Sullivan (1500m) 🥇 1987 - Paul O’Donovan (3000m) 🥈 1987 - Frank O’Mara (3000m) 🥇 1987 - Marcus O’Sullivan (1500m) 🥇

Kate O’Connor’s Senior Medals ☘️ 2026 - World Indoors 🥉 2025 - Worlds 🥈 2025 - World Indoors 🥈 2025 - European Indoors 🥉 2025 - World University 🥇 Unbelievable 👏

We lost a legend this week. Olympic Gold medalist Ron Delany passed away at 91. The summer before the 1956 Olympics, Delany ran a 4:20 mile at a meet in Dublin. Then, he got spiked badly in Paris and could barely race the rest of the season. The press said he was burnt out. The Olympic Council only confirmed his selection at the last possible moment. As he was struggling with his form, John Landy pulled him aside. He told him he looked strained, that his shoulders were too tense and he needed to relax. Landy was the Olympic favorite, the 2nd man under 4. The man he'd have to beat in Melbourne gave him the technical cue that would help unlock the run of his life. Arriving at the Melbourne Olympics as an afterthought, he meets the British trio of 1500m stars in the village. They want to do a friendly breakdown of the field. Who's going to do well? Delany: "I'm going to win." They looked at him like he was out of his mind. Why was he so sure? In his last training session before Melbourne, coach Brutus Hamilton pulled a piece of twine out of his pocket. Strung it across the track and had Delany run through it, arms spread wide, like a finish line celebration. Then he said: "Now, son, we have practised everything." They'd rehearsed winning, including winning. In an era where there were no sports psychologist, Delany had a pre-race protocol. Two hours out, he'd deliberately turn on the nerves. He'd let the anxiety build, get the adrenaline flowing. Then an hour before, he flipped the switch. Become what he called "the cold, calculated, tactician." It was a threat-to-challenge conversion decades before we had a name for it. On December 1st, 1956, there were 120,000 people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with a field that was one of the best in history. At the bell, Delany was tenth. Six meters off the lead. Then he started to move. He passed Landy with 180 to go. And closed his final 200 in 25.6, to break the Olympic record by four seconds. "There is no pain...Into the home stretch and I feel the strength, as if running on air... legs flowing so easily, breathing so consistent and effortless, my mind so relaxed and concentrated." After he crossed the line, Delany dropped to his knees in prayer. Landy, the favorite who'd helped fix his form months earlier and just lost, "was the first over me — which is a great tribute to the closeness of sportsmanship. He thought I'd collapsed, sees my face, and sees I'm not even winded." After the race, Delany sent a telegram to his first coach, Jack Sweeney, back in Dublin. Three words: "We did it Jack." He was 21, 10,000 miles from home, had just won the Olympic gold medal. And his first instinct was to credit the man who taught him to race. RIP Ronnie.

"It must have been my destiny to be Olympic champion." Recycled some chats I had with Ronnie Delany over the last decade for this obituary on one of Ireland's sporting greats - who carried himself with as much class off the track as he always showed on it m.independent.ie/sport/other-sp…

Ireland up by 28 points and Stu McCloskey finds another gear to reel in Marcus Smith and take his soul. Beast mode.

Andrew Coscoran finishes third at French meet, breaking his own Irish indoor 1,500m record @cathal_dennehy buff.ly/KdiJKMI

France beat Ireland Ireland beat Italy Italy beat Scotland Scotland beat England England beat Wales Sure why not

There was no material diffence in RTE Radio 1 mid-morning audiences between Pat Kenny, Sean O'Rourke & Claire Byrne, typical 320-340,000 And it seems David McCullagh won't be seeing a decline. McCullagh is on €209k salary, Claire Byrne €280k, O'Rourke €328k, Pat Kenny €950k

@ste_doody Never looked like scoring. Opting for a slow build up but then acting way too casual and relaxed. No ideas. When there's a break on Mipo has no clue where to go or what the plan is. Likely not his fault but it's just pure luck or a brilliant individual moment if we ever score.

After having a few hours to think, what did everyone make of last night?

@shelsfc Starting 2026 the same as 2025. Another 83 mins of a system that doesn't work with Mipo there. I don't see why we keep trying. Shels fell asleep after the goal and didn't wake up again. No desire to break with pace and look out of ideas on a slow build up. Very poor performance.

A share of the spoils in Waterford.

𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐉𝐀𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐀 𝐑𝐄𝐃 ✍🏻 Shelbourne FC is delighted to announce the signing of Will Jarvis from Notts County on a long-term deal. Welcome home, Will ❤️⚪️ 🗞 | shelbournefc.ie/will-jarvis-si… #DublinsFinest | #Since1895

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LORD BABY JESUS, WILL JARVIS IS BACK AT SHELBOURNE!

Loved watching and listening to JV, sad news 😢 John Virgo, former snooker player and broadcaster, dies aged 79 theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb…

HE'S DONE IT AGAIN!!! 🤯🔥 Mark English (Finn Valley AC) clocks a new national indoor 800m record of 1:44.23 at the Czech Indoor Gala, a World Indoor Tour Gold Meet, in Ostrava 🤩 The Donegal man finishes third in a stacked race taking 0.42 off his previous best indoors set last month in Luxembourg. Results ➡️ tinyurl.com/uwketmsp *Record subject to ratification #IrishAthletics

Another Irish indoor 800m record for Mark English as he finishes third in Ostrava in 1:44.23 - taking 0.42 off the record he ran in Luxembourg last month.