Promising Irish athlete Ciara Mageean has won an Ulster Colleges All Star award.

The outstanding young middle distance runner - widely tipped as Irish athletics' next big star - hails from Portaferry on the tip of the Ards peninsula in County Down.

Ciara is the Irish indoor 800 metres champion. A World Youth silver medallist, she smashed the Irish junior record.

A student at the Assumption School in Ballynahinch, she follows in the footsteps of her older sister Maire who won a colleges All Star in 2008. Tweet

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