Ciara Mageean: I've had horrible messages whenever I share my thoughts on Israel

Life would be easier, and quieter, if she stayed silent. But Ciara Mageean is well past that point, the reigning European 1500m champion feeling that she should use her platform to speak out about one of the great atrocities of our time.

In her recently released autobiography, My Greatest Race, Mageean wrote that she “firmly believed” Israel shouldn’t have been able to compete at the last European Championships as the state was “committing genocide”, and it’s a position she still holds now.

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