Four medals in Birmingham. Two golds, a silver and a bronze left Ireland ninth on the European medal table at the European Athletics Championships. Those medals came from four athletes with very different backgrounds. The question now is not just how we got here, but whether there’s even more to come. Mark English is a good place to start. Fifth at the 2012 World Junior Championship, before winning a senior European bronze medal two years later, a key turning point for him was pausing his medical studies to train full-time three years ago. This gave him the time and recovery…

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