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Adharanand Finn made it his mission to run around the entire coast of Ireland. That's about 2,250km for anyone full of New Year’s resolution to follow in his footsteps. Stock picture: PA

Many people followed the odyssey last year of the long-distance runner Adharanand Finn, who made it his mission to run around the entire coast of Ireland. That’s a mere 2,250km for anyone full of New Year’s resolution to follow in his footsteps.

In around 10 weeks, with his wife and teenage son as the motorhome support team, he started in Dublin, the natal city of his mother, and progressed via the Wicklow Mountains, Cork, up the Wild Atlantic Way, past Galway, his father’s birthplace, to Donegal and into the North before doubling back to finish on the banks of the Liffey.