Weather fails to deter eager mini-marathoners

The weather was about as mixed as the standards as thousands of women and wannabe women pounded out the route of the Evening Echo Cork Mini-Marathon.

The early morning mist and rain cleared as the countdown approached to the start, with the city quays brightened up by a rainbow of colours in the T-shirts of various worthy causes for which vital funds were being raised.

Although a squally downpour arrived just before the start, most finished the four-mile route in pleasant sunshine.