@DavidMatthews2

2 Olympics🏃‍♂️ had 2 Irish records 800m+ 1000m=51 yrs in total.📺🎤3 x OLYS commentator RTÉ .TRACK & FIELD LIVE Meet Director -I’m an Adoptee & have Adopted

 Kildare, Cork, Dublin
Joined January 2012
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Unbelievable, photo bombed with @russellcrowe by @soniaagrith 🏅🏅🏅😜she's quick 🏃‍♀️#LateLateShow
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Jump on to this!! It’s on BBC 2 over the next 3 nights World ULTIMATE CHAMPIONSHIP from Budapest. - Racing ✅ -Format ✅ -Production✅ -Easy to Watch✅ - National singlets✅ Hat tip to @WorldAthletics 👏👏👏
World Athletics
@WorldAthleticsSep 11
It's show time 😤 Day 1 of the #WorldAthleticsUltimate is here. Watch the world’s best go head-to-head in Budapest live 📺 appy.to/8drut
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Brilliant spectacle in @CrokePark but the screens (tv) around the ring are lost in a stadium this size…… @EddieHearn and co could do better! Go Katie …. 🇮🇪
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To make it worse they’ve lights shining back into the crowd/ it’s terrible spectacle for a fight live!!
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World Record 100m women’s hurdles Masai Russell 12.09 🇺🇸 Breaking Tobi Amusan 12.12 🇳🇬 from 2022
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Watch Alison dos Santos 🇧🇷 run a World Record of 45.80s to win the men's 400mH at the Zurich Diamond League!🤯🤯 2. Karsten Warholm 🇳🇴 46.69 3. Ezekiel Nathaniel 🇳🇬 47.50 xitter.cf/sportnmedia2/status/20…
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Ian O'Riordan@ianoriordanAug 21
Elite athletes’ harsh financial reality: ‘Vast majority are struggling to make ends meet’ ‘Getting taxed on a Government grant is bullshit,’ says top Irish middle-distance runner Cathal Doyle irishtimes.com/sport/athleti…

Elite athletes’ harsh financial reality: ‘Vast majority are struggling to make ends meet’

‘Getting taxed on a Government grant is bullshit," says top Irish middle-distance runner Cathal Doyle

irishtimes.com
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RTÉ Sport
@RTEsportAug 20
One week since Mark English was crowned the first Irish male European Champion with the action expertly called by @gregallenRTE @DavidMatthews2 🎙️👀 'It's in front of him, it's GOLD finally for Mark English. He has done it!' 🗣️ Goosebumps! #rtesport #europeanathleticschampionships #markenglish
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It’s a wrap - 4 medals 🥇 🥇 🥈 🥉 7 days 14 sessions….. signing of with some Birmingham bling @gregallenRTE
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Cathal Dennehy@Cathal_DennehyAug 14
Never mind the elites, it's the race you've been waiting for: the media 800m Here's Team Ireland, featuring 3 former internationals in David Gillick, David Matthews and Katie Kirk. Darragh Bambrick, Chloe O'Neill and Sean Blackwell also fly the flag. I'll document it below.
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Chris McNulty@ChrisMcNultyDglAug 14
.@gregallenRTE and @DavidMatthews2 nailed this piece of commentary tonight
RTÉ Sport
@RTEsportAug 13
It's gold for Mark English! History for Ireland, history for Mark English as he comes out on top in the men’s 800m final at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham.

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Greg Allen@gregallenRTEAug 13
Day Four ready to go on RTE 2…
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TONIGHT-22mins apart! - Jump on 🇮🇪 9.28pm Mark English 800m -FINAL 9.50pm Rhasidat Adeleke 200m-FINAL We’re on air @RTE2 from 7.30pm (Why not Warm up from 10.30am we’ve nearly 3 hours of uninterrupted coverage on @RTE2 - with Marcus Lawlor 200m/ Sophie Becker 400m 🇮🇪)
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Welcome to our Oval Office for the next 7 days- @gregallenRTE 🎤 steering us home with myself in the co pilots seat. 13 sessions nearly 40 hours of live Athletics across @RTE2 & @RTEplayer Jump on 🇮🇪
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Cian McPhillips and Mark English — two medal contenders for Europeans, one unique Irish story @sineadkissane buff.ly/Gtz89ZW

Cian McPhillips and Mark English — two medal contenders for Europeans, one unique Irish story

Irish duo vying for gold over 800m in Birmingham

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David Matthews@DavidMatthews2Jul 27
Replying to @gregallenRTE
agree 💯 - it’s been in decline for a number of years recently we went to a straight final( alarm bells). What’s needed is working group whose remit is to fill the 8/10 lanes - for nationals- resourced & lead by one of our ex great hurdlers- Coughlan /Kearns/Cahill?
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RTÉ Sport
@RTEsportJul 26
A dramatic end to the Men's 1500m final as Andrew Coscoran finds an extra gear in the home straight to see off the challenge of Cathal Doyle.
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Like a fine Wine- @markenglish_ breaking 1.43 for 800 is incredible! 1.42.97 Fastest in Europe this year a very solid run too by McPhillips( it’ll bring him on) … all roads led to European Championship in Birmingham 10th of August our 800m guys are leading the charge for medals
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Diamond League London!….. Olympic Champion 2024 🥇Wanyonyi 🇰🇪 versus the field…… We’re more interested in 🇮🇪 v 🇮🇪 Mcphilips v English ….. English beat McPhilips at Nationals 2025…… McPhilips went on 3 weeks later to run 1,42 4th in the final of Works champs 👏….
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Nice head to head for Kate O’Connor Commonwealth Games ( testing the water before European Championships. In August)
BBC Sport
@BBCSportJun 29
Katarina Johnson-Thompson is among 63 athletes named on the England team for next month's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 But Keely Hodgkinson misses out.
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Big News ( small ban) Multiple World medalist - banned for 4 months
Athletics Integrity Unit@aiu_athleticsJun 12
The AIU has banned Gudaf Tsegay (Ethiopia) for 4 months from 1 June 2026 for Presence/Use of Prohibited Substance (Metabolite of Letrozole). DQ results from 5 December 2025. Details here: bit.ly/TSEGAY-Decision Details here: bit.ly/Press-Release-Tsegay-…
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