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Eamonn Coghlan

Hibernia | The Great Ethiopian Run

By Ed Kenney

April 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment

On November 17, 2024 a group of runners from the US, Ireland and Ethiopia stepped up to the starting line of the Great Ethiopian Run, in that country’s capital, Addis Ababa, known as Africa’s largest road race and recently named ‘the world’s best 10k’ by Runner’s World Magazine. Led by legendary Irish Olympian and former 5,000-meter world record holder Eamon Coghlan, they were … [Read more...] about Hibernia | The Great Ethiopian Run

Still Running

By Paul Gains, Contributor
December / January 2003

December 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

Eamonn Coughlan finishes first in the 1500m at the World Track & Field Championships in Helsinki in 1983.

Eamonn Coughlan, Ray Flynn and Marcus O'Sullivan dominated middle-distance running in the eighties and early nineties. Paul Gains catches up with the three runners today. ℘℘℘ The images remain even if the passing of two decades has dulled them somewhat -- a trio of Irish middle-distance runners racing to victory against the best competition in the world. Before sold-out crowds … [Read more...] about Still Running

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Dublin’s Abbey Theater was destroyed by a fire on this date in 1951. The original buildings of the theater were all lost, however the Irish government helped rehouse the company at the Queen’s Theater until 1966 when the new Abbey Theater, a more contemporary theater facility, opened on the same site.

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