Road runner’s mum rejoices in son’s special day

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

“He goes through a pair a fortnight,” said proud mother Cushla Murphy-Hehir of her son’s rather expensive footwear habit. “He just eats, sleeps, trains. Twice a day, 130 miles a weeks — it’s pure dedication.”

As for herself, at times like this it’s pure torture. “You have no idea how nervous I was,” said Cushla, originally from Douglas, Cork, and now living in Co Clare. “I was tossing and turning all night. There’s so much effort gone in and you just want him to see the results for it.”