Dublin Half Marathon - little to no consideration given to local residents

Nothing was moved from the phoenix park. That event you were referring to will be on there in September. This is a net new event that was launched several months ago and given the success of getting 12k people running through our capital, I'd expect it to be an annual occurrence.

A lot of consideration was given to the runners by the local residents by the way.

People out of their houses giving support, offering water and fruit, cheering.

We didn't receive any leaflet but we were aware it was on so we were prepared and cancelled our usual Sunday stuff. Amazing event, some serious athletes, great weather and great participation.

Spent three hours cleaning up rubbish though. I've never seen that much rubbish after an event, thousands and thousands of gel packs, many blown in to the sea unfortunately.

a fantastic day and event, thanks for being so understanding and accommodating OP.

Roll on 2026 👏

To be honest, I wouldn't mind drop areas that would make it easier for residents to gather but there's just to many spread over such a large area. They're fairly heavy so we got a good few wearing gloves and some of us have those pickers but thousands of them ended blown in to water, hedging and the parks.

Outside the cordon? The route looped around a massive area.

I volunteered this morning leaving my home at 6:30am to support this half marathon. I'm simply a pawn in the bigger scheme of things as my role was to manage traffic, manage runners and provide support required up near raheny.

As a person with feedback can you provide this back to the event organisers? No point in coming on boards unless you provide actual feedback to the event.

As feedback from my running group came back with a 9/10 for some positive improvements I can't believe how some residents don't see the positive this can bring to local communities. We spend our lives on smart phones, heads down and your community had 12,500 runners paying to run through your local roads for a 3 hours on a Sunday. My section was closed from 08:45 - 11:00 where we actively managed traffic through the section as it was a traffic box area.

Back on point,

If you didn't receive information on road closures, raise that with the event but did your relieve mail and chuck it straight in the bin? I was told 80,000 leaflets were sent to homes alone the route. Let's work together to make this event better for 2026 because if this event happens next year I'll be running it 100%.

the same thing happens to the south side residents for the marathon every year, it’s unfortunate but we shouldn’t be stopping 12000 people doing a healthy activity because of it.

There was no one trapped anywhere, there was ways out everywhere but I agree it would have been a huge inconvenience. Most road closures were 3 hours I think.

hopefully it happens again next year, people will be better briefed and prepared.

Not everyone is on Facebook especially the older generation. I am not begrudging the running of the event. Just better communication to residents affected is the least the organisers could have done.