Athletics 2026

38, so sad. His poor family. RIP, a character and gave great insight to the fight to get to that level.

Pulled out at 400 I think?? Wasn't paying too much attention looking at the front but only said to myself where is he at 600/650m.

Anyone know exactly when he pulled out?

There was a minutes silence for Ciarán at a BHAA 5k race in Cork this evening, a nice geature. RIP.

Very sad, he was a Boardsie too, i had a few messages from him n the back of this thread back then.

Good catch - thanks for that!. Didn't know that - although I was just talking about the outdoor track.

As you say, the results can be mad although year on year they are hit or miss.

There are some prodigy's within there that will move up to Seniors because what 17 year old can run 1:42? (Know Lukenhouse is not NCAA but making a general reference to US college and highschool running in general plus had Lukenhouse not went straight to Senior I imagine he would be competing in the NCAA)

Jane Pedengren is running 14:4X 5k's at just 18 with having a 8:34 3k. Thats easily good enough for the diomand league circit.

Her and Rhasidat are the only ones good enough to get invites. Sarah Lavin used to. I remember Becker and Healy running in the same 400m in Rabat (or maybe another African DL that was struggling to get athletes in)

For 800 or lower you basically need to be a potential world finalist to get an invite. Easier from 1,500 up but we don’t have any real contenders currently

Obviously agents play a part too, but there’s no one that can saw they’re being unfairly excluded IMO

Exactly, even then Rhasidat is a maybe for this season as she hasn't had the greatest last year. There is no telling if she is in low 49 or mid to high 50.

Becker and Mawdsley both a good second off being good enough to compete.

Other then our 400m runners and Sarah Healy (middle distance). We have no one else near world class to get in.

Even then our 400m team is only 'world class' when it comes to the European Relays. Outside of that we don't really have a chance.

Jodie McCann's 5k PB is 15:20 which is about 30 seconds off the required standard I'd say. You'd want sub 4 for 1500 and hers is 4:08.

*not sure about Lauren Roy - her PB set recently is 11.03 which would would be good enough for 100m anyway.

Only Wooden, Jackson and Hunt(Who only recently broke 11) are running sub 11 so Lauren could compete.

Possibly although my general point was that we don't exacty have Diomand League level athletes.

Was more so trying to get the point across that the question/statememt of 'Interesting so few of the Irish ladies show up at these diamond leagues, across all the distances' wasn't exactly a great one.

They don't just choose not to show up. If they were invited/could then they would.

You can count on one hand how many athletes would be good enough (Lauren Roy, Rhasidat (a maybe for this season), Healy).

Possibly an element of take it anyway and just hope the refusal is overturned later on?

The Irish Times piece is brutal. Unlikely to see her 40th and it could be much sooner than that too (she's 34). You could tell it was bad from her demeanour, because she's normally always so positive about everything and she clearly wasn't positive about this on the RTE show. But I had still hoped that it wasn't this bad.