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Two Galway basketball players, Eoin Rockall and Joe Tummon have been selected on the Ireland u-18 team for this summer's European Basketball Championships.

Martin Fagan of Mullingar Harriers led home almost 2,400 finishers in Saturday’s 29th Kearney Cycles Streets of Galway 8km road race.

Two of the seven Irish international squads for the upcoming European Touch Rugby Championships hail from Galway.

The 29th running of the Streets of Galway 8K road-race will take place at 7pm on Saturday.

Paula O’Neill, chartered physiotherapist and owner of both the Ballinrobe Physiotherapy Clinic and Ballindine Physiotherapy Clinic, will be providing intensive physiotherapy for the Irish men’s basketball team for pre-existing and possible injuries as they embark in an intensive challenge to play a minimum of four teams in the European Basketball Championships, which take place at the end of the month in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Monivea kickboxer Brendan Kenny claimed gold at the Irish Open tournament held in Dublin at the weekend.

Promising swimmer David O’Sullivan from Salthill has qualified for the European Junior Championships and the US Open over the summer.

By Sinead Farrell

Ireland’s most successful race walker Olive Loughnane has announced that she is to retire from athletics. The Loughrea woman competed at the highest level, and won a silver medal at the 2009 World Championships.