Runner smashes Mizen-to-Malin record by 12 hours fuelled by Christmas pudding

“I’d a grand total of under five hours sleep for the entire thing.”

A combination of his mother’s Christmas pudding and only five hours of sleep were the ingredients for Eoin Keith to smash the record for running the length of Ireland, writes Stephen Barry.

The ultrarunner from Cobh broke the Mizen-to-Malin Head record by a phenomenal 12 hours, completing the 550km trek in three days, three hours and 47 minutes.