Stephen Scullion closes in on Irish marathon record with stunning London run

Stephen Scullion clocked the second fastest marathon in history by an Irishman yesterday, carving more than two minutes off his best to come home 11th in London in 2:09:49. That was behind only John Treacy’s Irish record of 2:09:15, which the Olympic silver medallist ran in Boston in 1988.

While Scullion’s run is the fastest ever on a record-eligible course – Boston’s is slightly downhill – it will not count as the Irish record as Treacy’s mark was ratified at the time and never retro-actively removed by Athletics Ireland.