Forget football, Leitrim now a hotbed of sprinting
Eanna Madden, from Carrick-on-Shannon AC, Co. Leitrim, shared 200m gold with David Hynes after a dead heat and took silver in the 100m in the GloHealth Irish Championships (Matt Browne / SPORTSFILE)
Leitrim has few claims to sporting fame but the county with the smallest population in the country has emerged as a serious sprinting hub.
Carrick-on-Shannon AC is now home to not one but two national senior sprint champions after Eanna Madden and Ger O'Donnell brought home two medals apiece from the GloHealth Irish Championships last weekend.
