Shelbourne junior parkrun

Event #281, Sunday 23rd August 2026

Another fabulous morning at Shelbourne junior parkrun with balmy late summer weather and an atmosphere to match. We opened proceedings by welcoming four fantastic children to the Shelbourne family. Harry, Aeda, Rían and Louis thoroughly enjoyed their first outing on the tarmac of Shelbourne Park Playground We look forward to seeing you all again next Sunday when you get to continue your parkrun journey. Well done guys!

Louis’ sisters Mila and Ruby, along with Macy, were our milestoners today, picking up their 10, 25 & 25 event wristbands respectively. Maith sibh cailíní, here’s to the next target!

As it happens, Macy celebrated her notable achievement with a personal best time. PBs also today for Elsie, James, Ciarán, Clodagh and Oisín, kudos to you all!

As you all know, at Shelbourne juniors we are never bothered by speed or racing, our main currency is smiling! That said, we were delighted to see Shelbourne stalwart, Séadna, cross the line as first finisher today. Séadna turns up week in week out, regardless of the weather or the occasion, and gets his run done quietly and without any fuss. Finishing in pole position today, for the second time from his 84 runs, was a worthy accolade for fantastic a young man and athlete. Maith thú Séadna, keep her lit for the winter as you work towards that magical century!

Thanks to all of our volunteers today for a cracking event, we are very grateful for your time every Sunday morning.

Beir bua,

Ian.

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Event #280, 16th August 2026

On Sunday we had 45 finishers, of which 23 were male, 20 were female and 2 unknown. There was 17 volunteers.

We had volunteers from London and Suffolk. Thank you Brenda, Lorraine, Marilyn, Samantha and Victoria for all your help. It was lovely to meet you all and we hope to see you again at another parkrun. Other volunteers on the day were Ann, Caroline, Elaine, Helen, Ian, Johnny, Máire B, Máire N, Niall, Orla and Patrick.

Congratulations to Caoimhe who was 1st past the post in 8 mins 8 secs. Well done to the 10 children who achieved personal bests. These were Séadna, Daire, Sadhbh, Ruairí, Eoin, Aaron, Nicholas, Naoise, Treasa, and Oisín.

There was 7 first timers this weekend. A big shout out to the 6 children who completed their 1st ever parkrun. These are Rowan, Tara, Oisin, Quinn, Donnacha and Ellen. We hope you enjoyed the experience and hopefully see you back at Shelbourne juniors real soon. Welcome to Clara also who ran Shelbourne junior parkrun for the 1st time.

An honourable mention this week to one of our Run Directors, Máire, who is a stalwart volunteer at Shelbourne juniors and one of Ireland’s most decorated parkrunners. Máire only went and ran her 450th parkrun at Limerick parkrun on Saturday!!

On the subject of volunteers, we are looking for volunteers for next week #281 as some of our regulars are not available. If you have an interest in helping please contact Shelbourne juniors. Full training will be provided on the morning.

Yours in sport,

Marion O'Halloran

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Good morning everyone! Please check out Mary’s fab photos from yesterday. 📸

Sunday 9th August saw 44 budding participants, 14 volunteers and many parents and guardians don the paths of Shelbourne Park for our 279th event at this wonderful venue.

Run Director, Máire, kicked off the pre-event briefing by extending a warm Shelbourne juniors welcome to Ben who completed his very first parkrun. Hopefully the first of many Ben, well done!

Special mention this week to Ed who flew round the course, posting his fastest time since last summer. Second finishing Ed was sandwiched on the podium by speedy siblings Aaron and Thomas, the latter posting a personal best time in style by breaking 9 minutes for the first time! PBs also for his cousins Fionn and Ruby, along with Evie. Maith sibh ar fad 👏🏼

Kudos to our sole milestoner this week, Macy, who marked her 25th junior parkrun, all 25 at Shelbourne junior parkrun Macy is a staunch regular at our event and goes about her business quietly and without fuss every week. Here’s to the next 25 Macy 👏🏼

Thanks as always to our wonderful volunteers who keep this event going week in week out. If you’d like to help out some Sunday, please reach out. There’s a role for everyone and all training is provided.

Beir bua,

Ian.

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Check out Mary’s fab photos from Sunday 📸

Event #278, Sunday 2nd August 2026

Well done to everyone who joined us at Shelbourne junior parkrun this morning! We had 66 fantastic participants who ran, jogged, skipped and walked their way around the course. It was wonderful to see so many smiling faces enjoying the morning!

A special welcome to our first timers, Oliver, Seoda, Zara and Carys. We also had visitors joining us from Switzerland and the UK. Thank you for coming to Shelbourne junior parkrun this morning, we hope you had a great time and that we'll see you again soon!

While we didn't have any new milestone wristbands to award today, we're looking forward to celebrating all of our recent junior parkrun milestone achievers as soon as the wristbands arrive. We can't wait to recognise those reaching their 10, 25, 50, 100 and 250 junior parkrun milestones!

A huge thank you, as always, to our volunteers. Our event simply couldn't happen without your time, enthusiasm and support. If you'd like to get involved over the coming weeks, we'd love to have you on the team! Just send us an email or speak to us after the event, and we'll happily add you to our volunteer WhatsApp group.

Have a fantastic week and we'll see you all next Sunday morning!

Jack

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Take a look at Mary’s fab photos from Sunday 📸

Event #277

We had 42 boys and girls join us this morning Shelbourne junior parkrun While the weather wasn’t as sunny as recently it didn’t lessen the smiles on everyone faces.

Charlie, running his 10th junior parkrun, led everyone home, a mighty run in his Bilboa A.C. top. Elsie led the girls home.

We had eight first timers join us all doing their first ever parkrun, welcome Jill, Kate, Ruby, Patrick, Matthew, Sarah, Aoife & Ross, hope you enjoyed your morning with us, and hope to see ye again soon.

Congratulations to Lottie, Sean Óg and Naoise, achieving personal best times today.

Special thanks to all our volunteers this morning, we couldn’t have our event without our volunteers and well done to Catherine volunteering for her 100th time this morning.

Milestones, we will have our new wristbands soon so everyone who is waiting for the milestone wristband we will be calling you all out to collect them. Also have a look at the parkrun shop, there are new T-shirts available for juniors, both running and volunteer milestones.

Until next Sunday.

See you,

Ollie.

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It was another beautiful, sunny morning at Shelbourne Park for our 276th event. 38 budding athletes took to the glistening tarmac, with an array of Limerick jerseys on display in support of The Treaty Men on All Ireland Sunday.

A warm welcome from all of us at Shelbourne junior parkrun to Reuben who enjoyed our event for the first time today. Míle fáilte romhat a Reuben 👋🏼

On the milestone front, today marks the start of the new junior parkrun milestone system whereby we will celebrate 10-25-50-75-100 with you all from now on. We will also be celebrating volunteer milestones so if any of you parents have someone who is just not feeling it some Sunday morning, remind them they can volunteer with us if they like. There’s a role for everyone! With that, well done to Tom and Eddie on your 10th event and to Alexandra, Séamus, Harriet and Aaron on your quarter centuries! Pop up to us next week for a photo and one of our new wristbands 😁

On the run front, Macdara celebrated his 10th junior parkrun by crossing the line as our first finisher, whilst his younger brother, Lua, also had an impressive podium finish. Splitting these siblings today was Aaron, who celebrated his 25th junior parkrun with a cracking PB. Kudos also to Finn, Ruairí, Harriet and Ruby on their respective personal best times today. Maith sibh ar fad 👏🏼

Heartfelt thanks, as always, to our amazing volunteers who keep our event going week in week out 🙏🏼

See you all for more next week.

Beir bua,

Ian.

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Six Seven 🫴🏼 🫴🏼

Shelbourne juniors is an event for all children of all abilities. Our juniors walk, run or skip their 2.5 laps of the park with broad smiles every Sunday morning. The primary focus for us is always inclusive enjoyment for all.

Whilst we never talk about winning at Shelbourne junior parkrun, a certain group of thoroughbreds have unwittingly focussed our attention on the front end of the pack in recent weeks as the very rare seven minute barrier has been threatened for the first time in a while.

On 14th June, Killaloe based club DERG AC provided no less than the first five finishers! Well done Macdara, Peter, Billy, Iarla and Seán. Since then, Charlie, donning Bilboa A.C.’s Limerick green, has entered the scene and turned up the heat, where himself and Peter have had a couple of great battles, coming agonisingly close to breaking seven minutes.

Check out the results of our last three events and see these impressive times for yourself! Do you think we will see a result beginning with 6 in the near future? Come along this morning and see for yourself. Six seven..