Alistair Ian Cragg is a South African track and field athlete. He has since lived in England and United States where he attended the University of Arkansas. He races for Ireland and competes most often over 3000 metres and 5000 metres. He holds the Irish national records in both the 5000 metres and the 10,000 metres. He holds the European road running record in the 5 km in 13:26, set in Carlsbad, California.
Joseph Edmund Deakin was a British athlete who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
Santry is a suburb on the northside of Dublin, Ireland, bordering Coolock, Glasnevin, Kilmore and Ballymun. It straddles the boundary of Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council jurisdictions.
Clonliffe is an area on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland, between Ballybough and Drumcondra in the Dublin 3 postal district.
Morton Stadium, or the National Athletics Stadium, is an athletics stadium in Santry Demesne, Santry in Ireland. Often called Santry Stadium, it is the centre for athletics events in Dublin city and the home track of Clonliffe Harriers. Managed by Dublin City University, it has also been the home ground for several Irish association football clubs including Shamrock Rovers and Dublin City. The modern capacity of the ground is 8,800, with a single 800-seat covered stand.
Joanne Cuddihy is an Irish sprint athlete, competing for the Kilkenny City Harriers.
St Brigid's GAA Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the parishes of Kiltoom and Cam in County Roscommon, Ireland. They play in green and red colours and their home pitch is at Newpark, Kiltoom. The club was founded in 1944 and is the home club of former Roscommon inter-county player Gerry O'Malley. The club has won one All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship, beating Ballymun Kickhams in the All-Ireland Club Final on St Patrick's Day, 17 March 2013.
Daniel "Danny" McDaid is a 2-time Irish Olympic athlete and four times national marathon champion from Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland. He is a former member of the Dublin-based athletic club Clonliffe Harriers.
Jeremiah Kiernan was an Irish long-distance runner.
The Herne Hill Harriers is an amateur athletics sports club based at Tooting Bec Athletics Track in Tooting Bec, London. The club was founded in the Herne Hill district of London in 1889. The club caters to all levels and ages of track, field, road running and cross-country running. The club begins training athletes at age 11 and offers “Star Track” an opportunity for younger children to get involved at the end of July each year.
David Guiney (1921–2000) was an Irish Olympic athlete, sports journalist and historian. He competed in the men's shot put at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
The Waterhouse Byrne Baird Shield is the oldest and longest consecutively run club cross-country event in Ireland, and one of the oldest in the world.
Gerald McIntyre was a long distance and cross country runner. He represented both Clonliffe Harriers and Ponders End AC, London. He ran the marathon at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, finishing 22nd with a time of 2:26:03.
Thomas O'Riordan was an Irish long-distance runner. He competed in the men's 5000 metres at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Santry Court was a Georgian house and demesne in Santry, north County Dublin built between 1703-09 on the site of an earlier medieval residence.
Tommy Redican was an Irish athlete from Donore Harriers. In 1964 he won the Waterhouse Byrne Baird Shield. He is a first cousin of Donore Harriers and Olympian Jim McNamara. He was a member of the great Donore Harrier's teams, coached by the legendary Eddie Hogan, which dominated Irish athletics during the 1960s and 1970s bringing success in cross-country and distance running unequalled in its achievements to this day. The teams included many of the greatest names in Irish distance running... the Dunne brothers: Tommy Dunne, Olympian Willie Dunne, Olympian Bertie Messitt, Olympian Tom O'Riordan, Olympian & 11 time World Cross-Country competitor Jim McNamara, Olympian & Sub 4 minute miler Basil Clifford, Olympian, Pat Cassidy, John Phelan, Tony Brien, Mick Neville, Tony Murphy, Mick Connolly, Brendan O'Shea, Mick Flood, Frank Greally, Eddie Spillane and John Sheridan. He was a member of the Donore team which represented Ireland in the European Clubs Championships in 1969, that finished 2nd and just 9 points behind the winners A.C. Dortmstadt in Arlon, Belgium. In 1972 he represented Ireland at the IAAF International Cross Country Championships in Parliament Hill Fields, London, England. On 17 March 1973 he was part of the Donore Team that represented Ireland at the IAAF International Cross Country Championships in Ghent, Belgium.
Brian Fay is an Irish long-distance runner. He has been the Irish national champion at 3000m steeplechase, and Irish national record holder over 5000m.
Cathal Doyle is an Irish middle distance runner. He is a multiple time Irish champion over 1500 metres.
Efrem Gidey is an Irish long distance runner.
Jodie McCann is an Irish long distance runner. In 2024, she became national champion over 5000 metres.
