Athletics

BIOGRAPHY Noel Berkeley competed in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, finishing 17th in his heat in 29:23.58 and not advancing to the final. Berkeley and teammate Sean Dollman made their Olympic debuts on a night of extreme heat and humidity - 26 degrees Celsius with 89 per cent humidity - [...]

BIOGRAPHY Nick Sweeney competed in the men's discus throw at three consecutive Olympic Games - Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 - making him one of the most prolific Irish field athletes in Olympic history. From Dublin, he attended Wesley College where P.E. coach Dan Kennedy introduced him to the discus, eventually becoming Irish

BIOGRAPHY Catherina McKiernan won the World Cross Country Championships four consecutive times from 1993 to 1996 - the first athlete ever to achieve that feat - and set an Irish marathon record of 2:22:23 in Amsterdam in 1998 that remains the Irish record. Her Olympic career began at the 1992 Barcelona Games, where she was

BIOGRAPHY Andy Ronan competed in the men's marathon at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, leading the Irish contingent for most of the gruelling 42-kilometre race - the toughest marathon course in Olympic history, with the notorious climb of the 150-metre Montjuic hill in oven-like temperatures exceeding 35 degrees Celsius - before suffering an injury around

BIOGRAPHY Patricia Walsh competed in the women's discus throw at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, finishing 9th in the final with a throw of 55.38 metres - becoming the first Irish woman ever to qualify for an Olympic field event final. From Rocklands, Ferrybank in Waterford city, and a scholarship student at the University

BIOGRAPHY Monica Joyce competed in the women's 3,000 metres at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, finishing fifth in her semi-final in a personal best time of 8:54.34 - a time that was not good enough to make further progress in what was a very fast semi-final. Monica Joyce declared for Ireland in 1981 after

BIOGRAPHY Mary Parr competed in the women's 400 metres hurdles at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Her route to the Olympic Games was one of the most dramatic of any Irish athlete at those Games. With the entry deadline just 24 hours away, a 'hand-timed run of 58.3 seconds' in the 400m hurdles at

BIOGRAPHY Marcus O'Sullivan won the World Indoor 1,500 metres title at three separate World Indoor Championships - at the inaugural edition in Indianapolis in 1987, again in Indianapolis in 1989 (the first repeat winner in the event's history), and in Seville in 1991 - establishing himself as one of the finest milers Ireland has ever

BIOGRAPHY Jeremiah 'Jerry' Kiernan competed in the men's marathon at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, finishing 9th in 2:12:20 - a performance that as one of the finest in the history of Irish Olympic athletics, achieved despite never having had the opportunity to train as a full-time athlete. From Brosna, a village in the Sliabh

BIOGRAPHY Frank O'Mara won the World Indoor 3,000 metres title at the inaugural World Indoor Championships in Indianapolis in 1987, becoming world indoor champion on the same afternoon that his compatriot Marcus O'Sullivan won the 1,500 metres - an extraordinary double for Irish athletics on a single day. His Olympic career began at the 1984

BIOGRAPHY Declan Hegarty competed in the men's hammer throw at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, producing what was the best throw ever achieved by an Irish hammer thrower in Olympic competition - a valid throw of 70.56 metres in the qualifying round. A scholarship student at Boston University who funded his studies and athletic

BIOGRAPHY Conor McCullough competed in the men's hammer throw at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, being eliminated at the qualifying stage with a throw approximately five metres short of teammate Declan Hegarty's valid effort. From Drogheda, Co. Louth, and based in the United States, McCullough was a veteran of international hammer throwing who later