Matt Shields

3 results

Participants in a parkrun at St Anne’s Park, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill
Parkruns – where you can meet someone from any walk of life

Every Saturday morning at 9.30am, the parks of Ireland are full of runners taking part in their local park-run event. Parkrun expects to reach 250,000(...)

Tralee Town park run in Co Kerry. Young and not so young from around the area participate in the weekly 2km junior park run which starts at 9.30am on a Sunday. Photograph: Domnick Walsh
Make small changes for a healthier family life, and don’t give up when things go wrong

We’re halfway through January, so how are those new year resolutions going? Some 80 per cent of turn-of-the-year pledges will have been broken by the (...)

Parkrun races are a runaway success

Sonia O’Sullivan has run a few over the years as have British Olympic champions Mo Farah and Alistair Brownlee. But a more representative sample of pa(...)