Cathal Dennehy: Irish gold required steely nerves and superb execution
Irish stars align in performance requiring steely nerves
Relay medal winners
It was just after 5.30pm in Rome, at a stage alongside the colossal Stadio Olimpico, when a moment they’d long dreamed of finally morphed into a beautiful, blissful reality.
On a screen behind them, a digital tricolour billowed, the bright, beaming faces of Chris O’Donnell, Rhasidat Adeleke, Thomas Barr and Sharlene Mawdsley portraying a powerful image of Irish unity, a forcible flex to the athletics world that for all the things sport in this country has become, it is most definitely one thing: fast.
