The omens for the rest of 2025 were reasonably good when a trio of athletes all won medals within 36 minutes of each other at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn at the start of March. Never in the long history of Irish athletics had three championship medals been won in such swift succession. Still few people could have predicted that by the close of December that medal tally would rise to 25, a record international haul for Irish athletes across the various championship levels – including the pick of them all in 2025, the World Championships in Tokyo in September. Those 25 medals were shared among 16 different Irish athletes, plus the two team medals won at the European...
