MOSCOW (Reuters) – Robert Heffernan said he wanted to create a “Rocky scenario” by beating the Russians in their own back yard and the Irish journeyman duly matched Sylvester Stallone’s ...

Robert Heffernan is not the first Irish race walker to suffer disappointment on the streets of England's capital city. After 3hr 37min 54sec of toil in the heat and high humidity of London ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Guts, guile and no lack of self-belief propelled Irishman Robert Heffernan to 50km race walk victory on Wednesday, spoiling the Russian party one day after Yelena Isinbayeva ...

Former New York Times television critic Heffernan writes about the Internet as one “massive and collaborative work of realist art.” Marketed as a treatise on art, the book turns out to be more ...

Robert Heffernan led for part of Friday's 50km walk race Ireland's Robert Heffernan finished sixth in the 50km walk in 3:43.55 at his fifth Olympic Games in Rio. Japan's Hirooki Arai, who came ...