Waterford student Deirdre Langford was part of the Irish success story at the World Drugs Free Singles Powerlifting Championships in Dusseldorf last month when she finished first in the dead lift and second in the squat in her age and weight category. A relative newcomer to the sport Deirdre began lifting with the...
Author: Catherine Power
Williams' Wimbledon Woe
Williams' Wimbledon Woe
On a day when Australia romped to an all too easy win in the Irish Derby, Waterford’s footballers and hurlers were involved in Championship action and with the World Cup’s last 16 getting underway, it wasn’t not too surprising that the first big shock at Wimbledon totally passed me by on Saturday. Despite managing to...
Sous Strikes for Mighty Moore
Sous Strikes for Mighty Moore
I love the racing at Royal Ascot. Multiple group ones, ultra competitive sprints, some decent handicaps and of course the Gold Cup provide for what is undoubtedly one of the finest week’s racing of the flat season. However I thoroughly dislike everything on the periphery. I have no interest in what colour Her Majesty...
Thomas Raises The Barr
Thomas Raises The Barr
Thomas Barr’s scintillating start to the track and field season continued in style in Switzerland on Saturday when the Ferrybank athlete smashed the Irish record for the 400-metre hurdles. Competing at the EAP meet in Geneva, Barr won in a time of 48.90 seconds from reigning European champion Rhys Williams of Great...
The Rise of Oisin Murphy
The Rise of Oisin Murphy
For many years, Ireland’s pony racing circuit has been the bedrock of future champions. Mick Kinane, Norman Williamson, Adrian Maguire, Norman Williamson, Waterford’s Tom Queally, to name but a few, plied their trade riding ponies before going on to incredible success on the track. Oisin Murphy, the latest rising...
Flat title all but secure for outstanding O’Brien
Flat title all but secure for outstanding O’Brien
With still over six weeks left in the season it would appear that Joseph O’Brien has all but wrapped up the Irish Flat Championship for a second consecutive year. Some of the bookies have already paid out on O’Brien and with good reason. With 110 wins so far this season O’Brien boasts a 27 per cent strike rate while...
Furyk's fantastic 59
Furyk's fantastic 59
Jim Furyk may not have won the BMW Championship in Chicago last weekend but he did write himself into the history books when he shot a second round of 12 under par, 59 at Conway Farms. Furyk joins a small and select group of only five golfers, Al Geiberger (1977), Chip Beck (1991), David Duval (1999), Paul Goydos...
World Champion not on RTE’s wavelength
World Champion not on RTE’s wavelength
At 5.30am (Irish time) on Wednesday last. Rob Heffernan lined up for the start of the men’s 50K Walk at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow. Three hours and thirty-eight minutes later, after a scintillating performance, the Togher native broke the tape to become Ireland’s third champion at this meet,...
Time for zero tolerance on cheats
Time for zero tolerance on cheats
Usain Bolt was in brilliant form as he powered to 100 metre gold at the World Championships in Moscow on Sunday night. Mo Farah was equally impressive when he dug deep to win the 10,000m on Saturday while Kenya’s Edna Kiplagat became the first woman to retain the marathon world title. However, not for the first...
Ferrybank athletes’ super Santry show
Ferrybank athletes’ super Santry show
Having followed the fortunes of Ferrybank AC for over a decade I was delighted to see the scintillating performances turned in by many of the club’s athletes at the National Senior Championships in Morton Stadium, Santry last weekend. Ferrybank athletes have, for many years, been no strangers to success but the...
Dylan Moran steps up to senior in style
Dylan Moran steps up to senior in style
Billy O’Sullivan and his fellow coaches at the Waterford Kickboxing Association have been turning out some of the finest fighters in the country for over 30 years. Located on the Industrial Estate northern extension the WKA gym plays host to 300 members aged between 3 and late 30’s. The gym is a hive of activity five...
Tips galore at Cheltenham Preview
Tips galore at Cheltenham Preview
For the racing fan nothing quite matches the thrill and sense of expectation of the Cheltenham Festival and with only days to go the excitement and anticipation continues to build as thousands of Irish devotees prepare to descend on Prestbury Park. The Cheltenham Festival is simply the Olympics of racing (although...