Cork's Maeve O'Neill run was inside the automatic qualifying time for next month’s World Indoor Championships in Poland. Photograph: Bryan KeaneA breakthrough run by Maeve O’Neill has continued the Irish indoor record-breaking spree, the 21-year-old Cork athlete improving the 800m mark which had stood for five years. O’Neill’s effort is also inside the automatic qualifying time for next month’s World Indoor Championships in Poland, set for March 20th-22nd. Akinola, English and Coscoran are expected to compete at this weekend’s National Indoor Championships in Abbotstown, with Sunday’s session already sold out. Qualification for the World Indoor Championships is via automatic standards or the event quotas, the closing date for which is March 8th.

Source: The Irish Times February 23, 2026 19:47 UTC