Her Ireland hockey team-mates included Maeve Kyle, who also went on to have a hugely successful athletics career. The then 70-year-old athlete returned to the Cherryvale Playing Fields in 2006 for ...

Her Ireland hockey team-mates included Maeve Kyle, who also went on to have a hugely successful athletics career. Hopkins' Northern Ireland long jump record of 6.11m set in 1956 was only finally ...

Olympic high jump silver medallist Thelma Hopkins, who won Empire Games gold for Northern Ireland and held the world record, dies aged 88.