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Current Olympic 800m champion and world record holder, David Rudisha, and Brother Colm O'Connell, who is coach to 25 world champions and five Olympic champions, will participate in various activities in the city from September 11 to 16.

Next Sunday Galway’s finest distance runners will descend on Craughwell for the Galway AAI 10-mile road race championship.

Several television networks are to broadcast the recent Trail World Championships organised by Run Connemara in a development which has been hailed as a major boost for the event.

Much has been written and broadcast over the past week on the impasse between the City Council and the organisers of the now-cancelled Galway City Marathon, which was due to take place at the end of this month and draw a vast number of runners to the the city. However, among the most hurtful barbs thrown was the allegation by former mayor Michael Crowe that the organisers did not honour a commitment to donate marathon funds to sporting clubs and athletes in the city which has been angrily rejected by the organisers and proven to be untrue.

Some well-known retired rugby players donned their boots once again for a special veterans match to celebrate the opening of Oughterard RFC’s new pitch on Saturday.