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Hosted by Welsh Athletics this indoor event is for emerging athletic talent from Wales and the neighbouring countries of England, Scotland and Ireland. Athletics Ireland did not send any teams this year however a number of individual Irish athletes competed as Ireland Guest representatives.

Watch footage of this event on Flotrack Ireland courtesy of Athleticos. Irish athletes taking part in 1500m events include Dan King, Danny Mooney, Colin Costello, Ruairi Finnegan and Claire Tarplee.

On 7th January in Edinburgh, Britton dominates senior women's race with a convincing performance. In senior men's race Sweeney appears very strong in the earlier and mid race phases and finishes in 11th place. Tobin 6th place in Celtic Junior men's must be very encouraging for his prospects at Junior level. Other Irish results not to hand yet.

Senior Women Fionnuala Britton (Kilcoole AC) Claire Gibbons-McCarthy (Leevale AC) Aoife Culhane nee Byrne(DSD AC) Kerry Harty (New Castle AC) Eilish Kelly (Raheny AC) Senior Men Joe Sweeney (Dundrum South Dublin AC) Andrew Ledwith (Fr. Murphy’s) Paul Pollock (Abbey AC) Mark Hanrahan (Leevale AC) Gary Thornton (Galway City Harriers) U23 Women Sarah Louise Treacy (Moynalvey AC) Una Britton (Kilcoole AC) U23 Men Michael Mulhare (North Loais AC) Emmet Jennings (DSD) David Flynn (Clonliffe Harriers AC) Liam Tremble (MSB AC) David Fitzmaurice ...

In partnership with UKA and athleticos check out the highlights from the opening fixture in the McCain Cross Challenge series which took place in Bristol. Leading Irish xc athletes travelled to compete in this event.

Men's 8K - David McCarthy Sr Providence 2nd in 23:29.3, Shane Quinn Fr Providence 28th (4th Freshman overall) 24:20.9; Women's 6K - Charlotte Ffrench O'Carroll Jr Providence 19th 20:43.5

Flotrack Ireland plans to provide coverage of the 11th EYOF athletics events.

Coverage on Flotrack Ireland includes the 2011 Morton Mile.

Watch coverage of the World Youth Athletics Championships track finals on Flotrack Ireland.

Abbotstown hosted this years all ireland schools in what started off to be a warm, Saturday morning in the country’s capital. It was the climax to the cross country season for numerous athletes giving themselves an opportunity to give it one last effort before the up and coming indoor season. It was also the trials for the SIAB schools international in Antrim with the first 8 across the line getting automatically selected. It was the first occasion that Minor’s have performed outside provincial level, however both boys and girls ra...