Rhasidat Adeleke and Ciara Mageean gave Ireland reasons to be cheerful on the second day of the European Athletics Championships in Munich, making it through to their respective finals in very impressive style.
Mageean started off with a domineering presence in her 1500m semi-final before coming home in second place behind Sofia Ennaoui of Poland, who only took a decisive lead in the final straight.
The Portaferry athlete, off the back of an enthusiastically-won silver medal behind Laura Muir at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, took control of this semi-final quite early on, leading the pack around at a good pace, twice lapping in 64 seconds.
Ennaoui had in contrast remained at the back for a lot of it, but moved up from tenth to go fifth at the bell, before moving up alongside Mageean with 200m to go.