Walking through Cork City yesterday, you’d be forgiven for thinking you had woken up in some sort of post-apocalyptic dystopia.

The severe weather conditions did not deter the thousands of athletes from participating in two marathon events in Dublin and Cork today.

Thousands of athletes have braved the elements in the Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon.

Winners Cillian O’Leary from the Model Farm Road and Nollaigh Hunter from Passage