Congratulations to everyone who took part! It’s something I’d love to do (but haven’t got the required levels of willpower or discipline).
Great achievement!!!

well done to all who ran the dublin marathon to day what a great day out i ran 7 dublin 2 cork and 1 in clonmel and i wish i was still runing

legs and body in bits. great day with great people.. welk done all.. gettting excited for dominos to be ordered soon :-)

@jim ahh – The Phoenix Park is around 8 miles circumference and the Marathon is 26.2 miles long, and before you say – do laps, you are talking about 14,000 people running at different speeds. Secondly, there is 40+ nationalities running through the capital, being cheered on by thousands of people. So a great platform to showcase the city and the friendly people, and thirdly, every city in the world runs a Marathon through it, closing it off. There was no place you couldn’t get to either, without a bit of forward planning
My question to you now is…do you really realize how petty your comment really sounds? Did you really need to make it ?

Well done everybody involved. Will be doing myself next year.

Fair play to them all for having a go.

Well done to everyone who took part, you are all legends!

Congratulations to all the participants, what a great achievement.

Huge thank you to the people of Dublin for the support for every step of yesterday’s race. It was just wave after wave of support and encouragement, as well as bowls of jellies and orange slices. I’ve never experienced anything like it and spoke at the end to a lady from Minnesota who was overwhelmed by the atmosphere all the way round. Take a bow every one of you.

Jaysus none of those pics make me say ‘I’d love to do that next year’…. Looks like hell

Yeah but there wasn’t concrete back then to run on

dont buy all this ” imaging what it does to your joints” talk ..warm up and stretching and plenty of flexibility exercise eg yoga and a lifetime of injury free running is possible… usually the people who say this dont run and save their joints by sitting in front of the t.v. eating frozen pizzas and microwave ready meals

Hi, I have one lung and would love to run the Dublin city marathon one day.
I am 47 yrs old, over weight and feel that I need to do this. HELP ME IF YOU CAN.
Ta.

That 16th picture looks like the most intimidating individual iv ever seen

Congrats to everyone that took part.
Well done :)

Good that people are interested in staying fit and challenging themselves, but I can’t help wondering what those 26 miles of asphalt and the hundreds of miles of training in the lead up are doing to their joints.
Human beings are built to run but you wouldn’t kick the side of a house for 4 hours and not expect damage.
Beaches or grass all the way

congratulations to everyone who took part!

Barring the guy that won, the rest are all losers as far as I’m concerned

Jaysus were a good looking bunch . Not . Haha

I didn’t know Linford Christy was running!

I think they are fantastic, as I struggle with my 4-5 kms a day !

I just wish they didn’t block the city up for a day.

Why not run in the Phoenix Park ? Or Mondello Park ? Or straight down the N7 for 13 or so miles and then back up the other side, closing one lane only.