I'm an awkward fundraiser. It doesn't come naturally. But having seen the impact of the work of the @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social on communities across Ireland over the last 8 years I am proud to run the London Marathon to raise funds for the organisation. Pls support www.gofundme.com/f/london-mar...

My Highlight of 2025 - A Presidential farewell like no other ..... it's significance and the story of how it happened.... www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-hig...

🔵 We were so saddened to hear this morning of the passing of Sister Stanislaus Kennedy. We will forever be inspired by her tenacity, dedication, courage and determination to speak up for those with the weakest voices in society - In her memory lets never give up doing what is right and just for all.

Last night in Copenhagen, Sanctuary Runners won a major international award for our work in community integration. We are still pinching ourselves. Delighted, especially, for all our participants, our organisers, our groups, our supporters, our people #Solidarity sanctuaryrunners.ie/2025/10/30/s...

🔵 Such a lovely positive story here about three wonderful guys from our Letterkenny group who took silver in last weekend's Donegal Half Marathon relay race! @annapr.bsky.social @cathalmaccoille.bsky.social @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social @thomaspringle.bsky.social sanctuaryrunners.ie/2025/08/28/s...

🔵 All roads lead to Letterkenny for tomorrow's Donegal Half Marathon! Noel and Graham will be travelling to run with Hopsy, Menad and Victor in this beautiful part of Ireland!! A Ghanian -Algerian-Irish-Nigerian mixed team with lots of supporters in blue! #Solidarity @annapr.bsky.social

🔵That moment when you decide to look when your 16-week training schedule for the Dublin City Marathon will start only to discover you're already supposed to be two weeks in!

On Wednesday we launched the #GlobalSolidarityRun 2025 at the World Expo in Osaka Japan - WATCH how we did it! The run itself will take place in 100+ countries across the world and YOU can be part of it! For more info go to Ireland.ie/GlobalRun #Solidarity www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynu0...

Our sincere thanks to Neale Richmond, Minister of State for International Development for his support this week. This video of the Minister welcoming the world to join in our #GlobalSolidarityRun on October 11th was heartfelt and very much appreciated this week. It was played at our Osaka launch.

So fortunate this morning to spend a couple of hours with Keiko Tanaka, founder of Rafiq (a refugee support NGO) in Osaka in the company of long time Sanctuary Runner Hirohiko Katayama. We spoke of their work and the huge difficulties faced by refugees in Japan. Learned so much. #Solidarity

"Now, more than ever, we need to stand up and demand that people are treated with decency and humanity" Graham Clifford, @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social Founder at Expo 2025 in Osaka at launch of Global Solidarity Run - #Solidarity @grahamclifford.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Lovely scenes from Osaka today where @grahamclifford.bsky.social is launching the @global-run.bsky.social for @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social. Hopefully coming to 100 countries this October!

🔵An incredible morning at Expo 2025 Osaka where we launched this year's Global Solidarity Run #GlobalRun2025 with people, including delegates, from 30+ countries. Our huge thanks to all those at the Irish Pavilion for your help in bringing this about - For more see www.ireland.ie/en/irish-aid...

This week we are in Osaka, Japan to launch this year's @global-run.bsky.social - The Global Solidarity Run will take place on Saturday Oct 11th enabling people to run, jog, walk or roll in solidarity with all those in our world who are forcibly displaced or living in extreme poverty. #Solidarity

Fitting that I found the famous Glico running man sign in Osaka today! A good omen for Wednesday morning's run at the @expo-osaka-2025.bsky.social to launch this year's #GlobalSolidarityRun! @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social See: www.ireland.ie/en/irish-aid...

🔵A beautiful evening in Cork where some of our Sanctuary Runners there came together to run, walk, chat, laugh and pose for this lovely picture! #Solidarity on Leeside 💙

🔵This picture from last weekend's Sanctuary Runners' group in Tallaght is just wonderful! Life is stressful for many (especially for those far from home) but Sanctuary Runners get-togethers offers positive and vital escapism #Solidarity

🔵Pls take 10 minutes out of your day to watch this amazing inspirational short-film Commissioned by London Marathon Events - made by #StoriesOfNote It tells the story of the Brighton Sanctuary Runners team and their bid to take part in the Brighton marathon 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh11...

Today marks nine years since Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right extremist, a terrible loss to those who knew and loved her and to politics. Zero lessons were learned though and the far-right continues to be pandered to. With more political assassinations in the US it all feels too familiar.

🔵 Along the route at this year's Cork City Marathon our team received love, support and motivation everywhere. Thank you Cork - #Solidarity #Friendship #Respect ALWAYS Join us - 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐀 𝐃𝐈𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 - 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 Email [email protected] for more @irishexaminer.bsky.social

🔵 PLEASE run/jog/walk with the Sanctuary Runners in the Cork BHAA 🍏 5km race on Tuesday evening, June 17th. We will have our blue Sanctuary Runners tops available for those who would like to run with us on the evening. 𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐁𝐋𝐔𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐕𝐄 and thanks to 🍏 employees for the #Solidarity

🔵 Féidhlim McGowan finished 5th in the Cork City Marathon in his Sanctuary Runner singlet (2 hrs 29 mins!). At the post race party Bianca's eyes lit up as she spotted the medal and without a moments hesitation Féidhlim presented it to her. A class act from a class man. Thank you Féidhlim🔵

🔵 On Saturday mornings across Ireland our groups come together to run, jog & walk as one - Pictures here from this morning in Limerick, Tralee, Castlebar and Buncrana - Please join us, its free, its casual but its so important to show #Solidarity #Friendship and #Respect with everyone in our society

Pls don't take your eyes off what is happening to the people of Gaza today, the purposeful genocide & starvation of an entire population They want you to look elsewhere, they want you to be overwhelmed The blood lust is depraved-And those who supply the cover as bad as those who pull the trigger

No rest for the wicked: despite having just launched an all-out war on #Iran, Israel continues to simultaneously slaughter civilians in #Gaza. The only language they understand is violence. www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

🩵 We adore this picture of Mobina and Isha taken on Princes' Street after the Cork City Marathon! Two wonderful warm, fun and strong women #Solidarity #Friendship #Respect

Hi everyone - would you do me a massive favour?! We're trying to greatly increase the number of followers we have to @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social ! If you wouldn't mind following the Sanctuary Runners account we'd be so very grateful - plus its a lot more entertaining than my one! #BeSound

🔵 Everyday this week we will be celebrating some of the hundreds of Sanctuary Runners who took part in this year's Cork City Marathon on June 1st - First up the wonderful Diavita from Angola. A gent who has been with us since 2023 #Solidarity #Friendship #Respect EVERY.STEP.MATTERS

🔵 All this week we are celebrating the hundreds of Sanctuary Runners who took part in the recent Cork City Marathon - Next up two wonderful strong women and A-listers! - Angela & Abigail 🩵 #Solidarity #Friendship #Respect

🔵Not long to go!!!! BRING IT ON! www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

WOW! The 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 National concert at the Dean Crowe Theatre in Athlone yesterday was just incredible! #Solidarity-Through-Song We had 400 singers & guests, 42 nationalities and one theatre of sound, decent, beautiful, strong people. We now have 20 groups nationwide and more to follow!

Hi everyone - would you do me a massive favour?! We're trying to greatly increase the number of followers we have to @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social ! If you wouldn't mind following the Sanctuary Runners account we'd be so very grateful - plus its a lot more entertaining than my one! #BeSound

I still can't quite believe genocide can happen in plain sight and the world doesn't seek to intervene - has any country suggested military intervention? Of course they haven't. Those nations which supply the bombs that fall on children are as twisted as those who launch them with evil glee.

The population in Gaza is being subjected to "forced starvation" where hunger is being used as "an instrument of war", President Michael D Higgins tells the National Famine Commemoration in Kilmallock, Co Limerick.

The Boss in the Pairc! On so many levels this man is a living legend. I like his music, I really like his energy and rapport with his live crowds but more than anything.....I LOVE his integrity. #Springsteen

A great evening for @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social at the Irish Red Cross awards last night. Such an honour. #Solidarity #Friendship #Respect @grahamclifford.bsky.social where’s your blue t-shirt?

🔵We're heartbroken to hear of the tragic passing of Emmanuel Famiola and Matt Sibanda in Donegal. Both wonderful young men known to our group in Buncrana. Indeed Emmanuel ran with the group recently. Two boys with their lives ahead of them taken far too soon. Our love and support to their families💔

🔵 We're so grateful to all at the Dublin Marathon for including us in this year's Marathon once again. Amazing partners over many years. If you have a place in the marathon and would like to run with and support us email [email protected] Let Your Feet Do The Talking #Solidarity #Respect

🌍We're at the Department of Foreign Affairs' Heads of Mission Conference in Dublin Castle this week. The support of our diplomatic mission overseas so vital the success of our #GlobalSolidarityRun which this year will be held on Saturday, October 11th across the globe. #Solidarity #Respect

"It is impossible not to see this as an intent to exterminate." - EU ex-foreign policy lead Borrell.

The horrors of Gaza are so disturbing, twisted and dystopian that any flicker of hope there ever was of peace in the region feels completely extinguished forever. Genocide in real time, a world which does nothing to stop it and a blood thirsty Israeli regime - where is the humanity?

🔵We are so grateful to be shortlisted for the 'Community Organisation of the Year Award' at next Thursday's #IrishRedCross Humanitarian Awards in Dublin All recognition is humbly appreciated - but it means even more coming from an organisation doing such invaluable humanitarian work worldwide

The Balfe Sisters!! Caitriona, Deidre, and Anne-Marie running the Paris Half Marathon on behalf of Sanctuary Runners Ireland 💜💜💜

🔵Lovely morning run through the rainy streets of Boston!

“Every Thursday they have sessions. I go there and listen and I bring my mandolin as well. I’ve started learning slip jigs, jigs and reels, horn pipes and polkas. In work we have a trad band group that we’ve recently created.” - Sarraj Alsersawi, of Gaza and Cork www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

🔵At the Sanctuary Runners - We've got your back @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social ➡️Treat all with #Respect ➡️Show #Solidarity with those who need our help & support ➡️Develop #friendships with others no matter where they come from Join us today - email [email protected] #RunAsOne #BeSound

🔵At the Sanctuary Runners - We've got your back @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social ➡️Treat all with #Respect ➡️Show #Solidarity with those who need our help & support ➡️Develop #friendships with others no matter where they come from Join us today - email [email protected] #RunAsOne #BeSound

I don’t usually do this, but please read this piece - it’s about good people in terrible circumstances and the world has sort of forgotten them

🔵Never fear the @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social are here! Spreading joy, respect and kindness wherever we go! Pics here from this weekend and our groups in Cork City, Waterford, Castlebar and Tralee! LEGENDS ALL! Join us today! Be the Change you want to see in the world! #Solidarity #Respect