2022 European Athletics Championships, Munich

Jesus, the ad breaks on RTE would drive you mad.

Thankfully BBC give a few nods to the Irish competitors, I've all but given up on the Irish coverage.

Brilliant by English...

And that annoying 3 advert..

Congrats to Mark English. He looked very comfortable and assured during that run.

Mark said he was goosed..by God he didn't look it...

I never knew we had 2 Irish in the 10'000mts...

Sixth for Gidey, hung in there for a long time. Great effort. PB for him as well, just under 28 minutes. Quite a back story those two Irish 10000m runners have.

Sarah up now!!

RTE and ads, fook off

She's actually had a fantastic championship. Those are two of her fastest runs ever.

Interesting splits. Becker and Mawdsley actually ran faster than in the semi but Healy's slower leg than the semi cost us a lot of momentum. Also, Rhasidat says she really felt it in the last 200m, so she wasn't quite at her best.

Great to see the idiots commenting, means the games have been noticed even with plenty of moneyball on, if only an oilman could come in and buy our team and spend billions buying the best blah blah blah . They can fook off back to their bar stools next week shouting for teams from a country they hate, i'll be down on the track helping kids progress in the sport.

Great games for us, prob more finalists than i can remember, English ran the perfect race, gave himself a chance but the spanaird was just a bit too good.

Lavin was dissapointed , made a bollix of the last when she was making ground up,she could smell a medal.

Efrem ran a great race, sub 28min 10k at 21 isn't bad , he can only get better and stronger. I'd say hiko is disspointed, he dropped off v quickly.

yes that was a brilliant race!! Germans the hosts win the very final race and Team GB made a hames of it....i think they should concentrate more on hand over's other than hair extensions, false eyelashes and fingernails😑

Fantastic championships, watched as much of it as I could over the week. Was out and about a lot over the weekend so had follow on my phone (Sky Go app is very handy for this and holds up on mobile coverage for the most part). Really delighted for Ciara Mageean, easily one of the most likeable sportspersons around and for all the ups and downs she has gone through over the year the persistence has paid off. She was so unlucky with the Olympics last year when she picked up the calf injury in her final training session. It was thrilling watching her go after Muir when the afterburners switched on. That shot of the two of them lying on the ground on the finish line holding their heads in pain, smiling in triumph and holding each other's hand and congratulating each other had everything good about sport in it...definition of leaving it all out there against your rivals and yet when the race is done saying well done. Irish sports moment of the year for me...this was no test match or friendly.

Been a great championships for the Irish team en mass, the excellent performances highlighted by many in the thread above. Like Ciara someone who has many championships under his belt and finally another medal to take home. Hopefully them and the others, Lavin, Olatunde, Adeleke and the many more inspire the next generation coming up and that the current generation will continue to improve. Brilliant seeing the "new" Irish for want of a better phrase appearing in the senior ranks now. As our sports teams in the past benefited from the children of emmigrant Irish abroad, now we are starting to see the reverse of our sports benefiting from the presence children of those who immigrated to Ireland.

Couldn't agree more. Really enjoyed them and will miss it this week, so many exciting races and positive Irish results. Delighted for our medallists. First time I really observed the difference psychology makes at this level - they both looked and ran like medallists, self belief is obviously a huge factor in winning. Sarah Lavin will be back, as of course will our delightful young sprinters. It was hard watching Michelle Finn being interviewed, so honest & raw, huge respect for her and hope she goes on from here. Rob Heffernan made the point that she should consider moving to the marathon and we could potentially have a strong women's marathon team. She's that type of runner, tough as nails, that would do well at the marathon. Gidey had some run too... one could go on and on, great week, loved it, my kids loved it, even my husband showed an interest - serious kudos to all the athletes and all involved for a great week's entertainment, super to see our wee nation have a pretty successful week at this level.

It's symbiotic in theory - people who wouldn't go a climbing competition or a cyclo-cross race might go because it's part of a grandiose city-wide multi-sports event. And then in the evening they go to the Athletics which they might otherwise have been only vaguely aware was on.

As mentioned a few times though, athletics is pulling out of the concept in 2026 so you will get your wish.

Very few issues of concern with the performances across the board.

Even those who were considered to have underperformed such as Sarah Healy have enough talent to have high hopes for the future. This is especially true when you look at how low things were for Ciara Mageen around the same age and she turned it around brilliantly.

There is also another generation coming through from the juniors such as Nick Griggs, Clan McPhillips and Dean Casey in the distance events plus developing field event athletes that give reasons to be hopeful.

PS does anyone agree that Hika Haso has great potential to run sub 2:08 in the marathon?