1. Paul Hession has won silver and bronze medals at the World University Games, a silver medallist in the 200 m in the 2008 IAAF World Athletics Final and in 2007 made the leap into world class by setting 4 Irish national records at 100 metres and 200 metres.
Paul Hession is a member of the Athenry Athletics Club.
Two years later Paul Hession won bronze in the 2005 edition.
Paul Hession followed this up with a disappointing run in his first World Athletics Championship.
In 2007, Paul Hession broke his first Irish national record by running the 100 m in 10.28 in Kalamata.
When Paul Hession stepped up to his preferred distance of 200 m he again broke the Irish record twice.
On 15 November 2008 Paul Hession was awarded the highly prestigious Athlete of the Year at the annual Athletics Association of Ireland awards dinner.
Paul Hession made history as the first Irishman to qualify for the finals of the 200 metres in the European Athletics Championships.
Paul Hession had put his medical studies on hold to pursue athletics full-time.
Paul Hession is currently working as a doctor in Children's University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin.