No joy for local athletes at Euro U23 Championships but plenty of positives

The Irish Women’s 4×100 metre relay team which included Kilkennys Cliodhna Manning failed to finish their final yesterday after dropping the baton during a handover.

Carlows Marcus Lawler was on the men’s team who came 5th and set a new National record.

Marcus made the finals of the individual 200 metres at the weekend and finished up in 7th place, only 10th of a second outside of the medal spots.

Speaking to KCLR, Marcus’s dad Tom says the aim going out there was to make a final as he’s still fairly young…..