Half a million people are registered for parkrun in Ireland

Parkrun Ireland have just announced that they have just reached the 500,000 registrations mark!

The very first 5k parkrun in Ireland was in Belfast in November of 2010. Two years later, the first one in Dublin was the Malahide parkrun took place in November 2012. The very first 5k in Cork started in Macroom in May of 2013.

Since those early days, parkrun has been growing strongly and there are now usually over 1000 runners and walkers at the eleven 5k events in Co Cork every Saturday morning.

Of all the multitude of initiatives that Sport Ireland help fund, this one is certainly one of the most significant.