Waterstown parkrun Dublin

Today we had our #549 parkrun! Over 60 runners joined us this morning, far more than we imagined in the rainy weather! ☔️🌂💧

We had plenty of first-timers on the track. A huge welcome to Angus, Shauna, Joe and Moses, among many others. We also had some visitors from Fairview, Hartstown, Cabinteely, Fenit Greenway and Monaghan Town.

As for our milestones, Ken makes it to his 350 parkrun milestone! Well done. 💪

Despite the weather, we still had our amazing volunteers to help us with today's run. If you'd like to be a part of our merry band of helpers, let us know! 🦺🤳

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🙋‍♂️ Volunteers needed this Saturday's parkrun!

Last Saturday Paul swapped his running singlet for a hi-viz jacket to volunteer at parkrun for the first time.🦺👏

Parkrun volunteers are incredibly important to everything we do and we especially love to see new faces join our volunteer teams. Volunteering is easy, fun and a great way to understand how parkrun works each week. There's no experience needed and there are a choice of roles and some even allow you to volunteer and run on the same day too.

So if you would like to volunteer over the coming weeks just get in touch

📧 Email [email protected]
💬 Chat to the Run Director at your next parkrun
⚡ Send a FB message

Among last week's parkrunners and volunteers we had three milestones, two parkrunners and one volunteer

🦺2️⃣5️⃣ Julie-Ann O'Donovan
🏃‍♀️5️⃣0️⃣ Tindy Lau
🏃1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Adrian Tierney

Hot on the heels of her 25 parkrun milestone last week at her home parkrun Ballincollig parkrun , Julie-Ann reached her 25 volunteer milestone this week volunteering as our Barcode Scanner. Her parents ,Tom and Julia Somers and her husband Anthony joined her on the volunteer team for her big day

Tindy started her parkrun journey Griffeen parkrun in Jan 2025 and has become a familiar face at our parkrun completing 38 of her 50 with us and has volunteered twice too.

Adrian, a member of Newbridge AC , chose us to visit us for the first time for his 100 milestone run. He has visited over 40 events home and abroad since joining parkrun in 2012.



📷 Photographer volunteer, Robert

Part 2

🌳 Waterstown parkrun – Event #548
📅 Saturday 22 August 2026
🏃‍♂️ 91 finishers • 🙌 14 volunteers • 🎉 Birthday magic
Waterstown was buzzing this morning — sunshine on the Liffey, big smiles at the start, and that cheeky hill pretending it’s “not that bad”. Pure weekend magic.
🥇 Front runners:
🚀 Harry Bourke (20:30, first ever parkrun!)
🔥 Denis Sobolev
💪 Anthony McKay
👟 Top age grade:
Bernie Stapleton — 73.30% brilliance.
🎂 Birthday Spotlight:
Huge Waterstown cheer for Bibiana Savin, celebrating her birthday with us today. 💚🎉
💚 Volunteers:
🦺 Michael Lester
🦺 Natasha Lester
🦺 Julia Somers
🦺 Thomas Delaney
🦺 Julie‑Ann O’Donovan
🦺 Paul Graham
🦺 Tom Somers
🦺 Anthony O’Donovan
🦺 Angela Healy
🦺 Kay McColgan
🦺 Christina Fitzpatrick
🦺 Martin Byrne
🦺 Martin Finn
🦺 Kevin Kiely
🦺 Robert Francis
✨ First timers, PB chasers, walkers, joggers, runners — Waterstown had it all today.
See you next week for #549. The hi‑vis looks good on everyone. 😎

Parkwalker role still available for this mornings parkrun.
if you're available, drop up to the RD and Michael can add you to the roster

**Roster Full**

We are short of 3 volunteers for this weeks parkrun. We need a Marshal, a Barcode scanner and someone to put out the course arrows. Let us know if you can help out. Thanks, Michael.

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