Giancarlo Isacchi was taking part in the 26-mile race on Sunday when he collapsed from a suspected heart attack

In so many ways, this was a day of celebration. New stars emerged for Irish marathon running in Stephen Scullion and Aoife Cooke, home-grown heroes of what was a glorious festival of celebratory suffering on the streets of the capital.

Each week, Denise O'Donoghue profiles one of the runners taking part in the ‘Irish Examiner’ Cork City marathon this June

Despite his active youth, non-smoker David Crosbie needed a double lung transplant. It inspired him to start running marathons, writes Fergus O’Donoghue

It’s been 50 years since the horror of starvation in Biafra played nightly across black and white televisions in Ireland.

They may have relinquished their hold on the team title, but there was ample consolation for East Cork Athletic Club as Tim O’Donoghue powered his way to an impressive victory at the Cork County senior cross-country championships at White’s Cross.

National champion Gary O’Hanlon believes tomorrow’s Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon will be one of the most challenging editions of the event.

On Sunday, Gary O’Hanlon will line up at the London Marathon behind the world’s best: Eliud Kipchoge, Kenenisa Bekele and Mo Farah, rock stars of a sport he once thought had abandoned him, but in which, with each passing year, he’s flourishing ever more, writes Cathal Dennehy

Claire Callanan will be honouring the memory of her parents by running in this year's Cork City Marathon, writes Denise O'Donoghue

Tom Devine was hardly expecting his first Páirc Uí Chaoimh performance to be like this.

Crowds 10ft deep cheered as runners completed the final stretch of yesterday’s Dublin Marathon.

A record 20,000 runners will stride out on Merrion Square South tomorrow morning for the SSE Airtricity Dublin Marathon, with club runners from Acorn AC right through to Youghal in search of that coveted finishing medal.

Brendan O’Carroll is working on a new show and Agnes will not be in the picture.

Eighty-six-year old Phonsie Clifford crossed the finish line of the 2017 Barringtons Hospital Great Limerick Run, and vowed to take part in this year's Dublin Marathon.

Sometimes I think if people used one word to describe me it might be granola, writes Derval O’Rourke.

Jack McGowan used to train at night for fear of being thought mad, writes Feidhlim Kelly.

Defending national champion Sean Hehir believes tomorrow’s SSE Airticity Dublin Marathon showcases the capital at its best where record numbers of just under 20,000 will be led out by a strong East African representation.

For several of Ireland’s best marathoners, the door finally closed on Olympic qualification at the London Marathon yesterday, with the race to Rio de Janeiro now left in the hands of selectors ahead of next month’s deadline.

Eoin Callaghan goes into Monday’s record entry Dublin marathon on the cusp of realising a dream.

Dublin City Council has defended its role in attempting to keep the Web Summit in the capital, saying it continues to offer every possible support to organisers for this year’s event.

Simon Baker is the founder of the Irish Amputee Football Association and captain of the IAFA’s international team. That team will play the Netherlands, Ukraine and hosts Poland in an international tournament this weekend. He is also the secretary general of the European Amputee Football Federation.

Dublin Marathon Race Director Jim Aughney admitted he was “disappointed” that Martin Fagan pulled out at the last minute for the launch of the race yesterday.

A fifth victory in a row by Sergiu Ciobanu of Clonliffe Harriers in the men’s race in and a course record winning time of 54:20 by Maria McCambridge of Dundrum South Dublin Athletic Club were the highlight performances at yesterday’s annual Ballycotton 10 mile in East Cork — the 38th running of this Irish road classic.

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You know it’s marathon time when a world-class runner takes home gold but a man in his 60s who has clocked up 85 races this year and a man who has literally ran around the globe take the plaudits.

The Dublin Marathon kicked off today for the 35^th year.

Running: The inception of the Dublin marathon in 1980 proved to be a catalyst for the original running boom in Ireland, and for Jerry Kiernan, it was a glorious time.

An endurance runner dubbed Ireland’s answer to Forrest Gump has arrived home after an epic four-year 50,000km run around the world.

An endurance runner dubbed Ireland’s answer to Forrest Gump has arrived home after an epic four-year 50,000km run around the world.

One of Ireland’s best long-distance runners has all but given up hope of competing at the European Championships in Zurich in two weeks’ time as his application for Irish citizenship has yet to come through.

By Will Downing

Ricki Savage the 27-year-old English man who collapsed after completed Monday’s Airtricity Dublin Marathon has died.

Sean Hehir wore out two things in the run-up to his Dublin Marathon victory — his shoes and his mammy.

Sean Hehir became the first Irish winner of the Dublin marathon in 20 years this morning.

Marathon legend Dick Hooper believes there is “a golden opportunity” for domestic winners of Monday’s Airtricity Dublin Marathon with no elite foreign entries toeing the line due to budgetary constraints.

Mark English and Paul Robinson both bowed out of the 800m in the first round heats on the opening morning of the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow.

The prospect of aerobics might usually have people running a mile in the opposite direction, but not in Limerick.

An Irishman has told how he prayed for three hours as he waited for his wife after two bomb blasts ripped through the Boston Marathon, killing at least three people.

Killian at 19.5 stone before participating in Operation Transformation last year.

Dundrum South Dublin pair Joe Sweeney and Ava Hutchinson claimed the titles at today’s Woodies DIY National Cross Country Championships in Ratoath Co.Meath.