Does anyone know the answer ?

PVincent

I have the great pleasure to run on Wednesday evry few weeks with the great Eamonn Tierney ...Eamonn was a superb runner in his day...He is still pretty decent considering he does not 'really' train. A run with him is an insight into Athletics, how it was back in the 70s & 80s when we had really great runners , really great world class distance runners . Its a run I look forward immensley to as its non stop chat the whole way and he is a full of great stories , great nuggets of info ...
Anyway today we were chatting about marathons and for whatever reason I just posed the question ' Who was the last Irishman to win a marathon ' ( excluding home marathons or Polar marathons etc etc ) ..Eamonn won the Glasgow marathon in 1987 ( September) but we racked the brains to think of anyone after this ...start thinking and researching please and share any info ...ta

RacoonQueen

Abhainn - some marathon in Cyprus ?2009 :pac:

Pherekydes

Treacy won Dublin in 1993 and if that's not allowed, LA in 1992.

Of course, Catherina the Great won London and Amsterdam in '98.

shels4ever

Pete Maher won in canada in 87.

Hard Worker

Dick Hooper won the Disney Marathon in January 1997.

thirstywork2

http://www.athenryac.com/paul-mcnamara-wins-edinburgh-marathon


http://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2008/0525/athletics1.html

2008

Hard Worker

Pherekydes wrote: »

Treacy won Dublin in 1993 and if that's not allowed, LA in 1992.

Of course, Catherina the Great won London and Amsterdam in '98.

John Treacy's winning time was 2.12.29.
Tommy Hughes won the Marrakesh Marathon in 1988 in 2.15.48. He ran it again ( I think he finished 2nd ) in 1992 in a time of 2.13.59 and won the Robin Hood Marathon last year in a time of 2.29.14 at 50 years of age.
There have been other Irish winners over the years. I'll dig up the details.

Hard Worker

Roy Dooney won the Grandmas Marathon in June 1992 in a time of 2.13.25.

woodchopper

Paul McNamara won the Edinburgh marathon a number of years back. Memory is poor on this forum.

Woddle

woodchopper wrote: »

Paul McNamara won the Edinburgh marathon a number of years back. Memory is poor on this forum.

Maybe you should have read the thread in full.

sideswipe

Hard Worker wrote: »

Dick Hooper won the Disney Marathon in January 1997.

That's only a Micky Mouse race:D

I'll get my coat and show myself out

woodchopper

Woddle wrote: »

Maybe you should have read the thread in full.

Mod edit>Trolling<Mod edit

thirstywork2

woodchopper wrote: »

Paul McNamara won the Edinburgh marathon a number of years back. Memory is poor on this forum.

my memory isn't bad for an ould boy

Gringo78

Cork City Marathon:

2007 Alan O’Shea 2:27:36
2008 Roy Fahy 2:33:55
2009 Michael Herlihy 2:30:36