After the Boston bombs: Out of hate came love

Six years after the Boston Marathon bomb attack, three Irish athletes recall the events of that shocking day, and how out of that darkness, the city, its people, and its marathon came back stronger

All he could do was pray. Eamonn Loughran had already run 26 miles, then walked another two back to his hotel, but despite all that, he couldn’t sit still.

The Ballymena man walked back and forth across his room, a growing sense of dread starting to swell within. It had been three hours since he finished the Boston Marathon, but he had yet to hear from his wife, Angela.