{"id":22009,"date":"2017-05-30T19:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=22009"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:22:08","slug":"the-history-of-irish-marathon-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=22009","title":{"rendered":"The History of Irish Marathon Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22012\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22012\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/loughrea-78.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22012 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/loughrea-78-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/loughrea-78-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/loughrea-78-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/loughrea-78-640x361.jpg 640w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/loughrea-78-121x68.jpg 121w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/loughrea-78-226x127.jpg 226w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/loughrea-78.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loughrea Marathon 1978 &#8211; photo courtesy of Caroline Tuite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1706\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Marathonrunning.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('1706','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Marathonrunning.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Marathonrunning.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=22009-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Marathonrunning.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Marathonrunning.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 52:55 &#8212; 72.7MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Near FM are proud to present The History of Irish Marathon Running. Produced and presented by Dave Hooper, with additional narration by the late great broadcasting legend Jimmy Magee (The Memory Man), this \u00a0documentary traces the history of Irish marathon running in Ireland from its imperial beginnings in the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, to the golden days of John Treacy, Jerry Kiernan, Pat and Dick\u00a0Hooper, Neil Cusack and Catriona McKiernan right up to the Rio Olympic games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Theme music &#8216;Fitzcarraldo&#8217; courtesy of The Frames.\u00a0Photo courtesy of Caroline Tuite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Production supervisor:<\/strong> Paul Loughran<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the television licence fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near FM are proud to present The History of Irish Marathon Running. Produced and presented by Dave Hooper, with additional narration by the late great broadcasting legend Jimmy Magee (The Memory Man), this \u00a0documentary traces the history of Irish marathon running in Ireland from its imperial beginnings in the early 20th century, to the golden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1707\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Marathonrunning.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('1707','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Marathonrunning.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Marathonrunning.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=22009-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Marathonrunning.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Marathonrunning.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 52:55 &#8212; 72.7MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,6995],"tags":[7001,6998,6997,7000,6996,6999],"class_list":["post-22009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-the-history-of-irish-marathon-running","tag-catriona-mckiernan","tag-jerry-kiernan","tag-john-treacy","tag-neil-cusack","tag-the-history-of-irish-marathon-running","tag-the-hooper-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22009"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58729,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22009\/revisions\/58729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}