It's every athlete's target to improve race on race, and Paul Hession is certainly doing that at the moment.

He picked up his second national title in a new national record time, the best European performance this year.

His time of 20.30 is world class and he can go into next month's World championships with a real sense of confidence, and every chance of success.

Also representing Athenry AC was Claire McNamara who finished 6th in the high jump.

Full report at the Athletics Ireland website and some coverage from RTE:

Video of Paul's recent win over 200m at the Cork City Sports in 20.43 (+4.7M):

Paul continued his good work over the weekend by adding the 100M title in 10.45, winning the race in another procession. A tiny bit of coverage of the race was shown on the RTE 6 O'Clock News on Sunday evening but this footage was on the floor by 9 O'Clock when news of Paidraig Harrington's amazing victory had filtered through.