Prayers work for ‘nuns on the run’

PRAYERS paid off for a pair of nuns on the run, part of an 11,000-strong crowd taking part in the 30th Evening Echo Cork Women’s Mini Marathon.

Torrential rain in the morning threatened proceedings, but gave way to dry conditions by the lunchtime start.

George Mullane, 33, from Ballincollig and team mate John Hourihan, 33, from Ovens, cross-dressed as nuns to complete the four-mile journey in support of the Leukaemia Unit at the Mercy University Hospital.