This year’s Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon will mark another step towards a ‘greener’ event, as organisers continue their efforts to reduce the single-use plastics accumulated during the race.

Organisers of the Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon have apologised and ordered a review of their half-marathon arrangements, because 200 competitors took the wrong route. This added half a mile to the race.

We profile our last Runner of the Week taking part in the ‘Irish Examiner’ Cork City Marathon today

DICK HOOPER, Ireland’s Marathon Man, will be at his old stomping ground, St Anne’s Park in Raheny, tomorrow to present the prizes for the Dublin City Council/BHAA road races when the programme will be comprised of a men’s four-mile race and women’s two mile race.

STEVE JONES enjoys celebrity status now those days and he will be found among the sponsors, promoters and VIPs at all the major marathons.