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16 Sep 2025

Sanctuary Runners short-listed for major global award in Copenhagen

Tuesday, September 16th, 2025 This week Sanctuary Runners, an Irish founded solidarity-through-sports movement, was shortlisted for a 2025 International Sport…

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15 Sep 2025

Sanctuary Runners and Canoeing Ireland Announce ‘Sanctuary Paddlers’ Collaboration to Promote Integration Through Sport

A unique collaboration between Sanctuary Runners and Canoeing Ireland is bringing a powerful message of inclusion and community onto the…

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28 Aug 2025

Sanctuary Runner trio take silver medal in Donegal relay race

A Sanctuary Runner trio from Letterkenny capped off their maiden-relay race with a second-place finish in the Donegal Half Marathon…

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18 Aug 2025

Michael Darragh Macauley to call time on leadership of Sanctuary Runners

Monday, August 18th After a positive year at the helm of the Sanctuary Runners Michael Darragh Macauley is stepping down…

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19 Jun 2025

Sanctuary Runners GB holds it official launch in Brighton

Sanctuary Runners, a multi-award winning solidarity-through-sport movement, founded in Ireland in 2018, has officially expanded to Britain with a new…

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9 May 2025

Sanctuary Runners named ‘Community Organisation of the Year’ at Irish Red Cross Awards

The Tánaiste Simon Harris presented the Sanctuary Runners with the ‘Community Organisation of the Year’ award at the annual Irish Red Cross…

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12 Mar 2025

President Higgins becomes Patron of the Sanctuary Runners

Today, at Áras an Uachtaráin, President Michael D Higgins became patron of the Sanctuary Runners Movement. A group of Sanctuary…

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27 Feb 2025

Sanctuary Runners’ appeal for public support in PTSB Community Fund competition

• Sanctuary Runners one of five charities (in Southern/Eastern Region) in race for funding from PTSB • Live Online vote…

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10 Jan 2025

Sanctuary Runners call on new government to adopt a ‘Community Integration Strategy’ for migrants and wider society

• Sanctuary Runners call for a new approach to integration in new programme for Government • The outdated and aspirational ‘Migrant Integration…

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21 Oct 2024

Thousands across the world embrace the Global Solidarity Run

It was a run like no other as thousands of people in 75 countries across the world took part in…

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18 Oct 2024

President Michael D Higgins Full Statement on Global Solidarity Run – “The run is an example of the solidarity which is needed at all levels (for) a world based on humanitarian values”

May I extend my very best wishes to all those who will be participating in this weekend’s Global Solidarity Run,…

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30 Sep 2024

LET YOUR FEET DO THE TALKING: Tánaiste calls on people worldwide to join the Global Solidarity Run on Saturday, October 19th

The ‘Run’ enables people across the world to show their solidarity with people who are forcibly displaced and those living…

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26 Sep 2024

World Record number of International Protection Applicants to take part in Irish Life Dublin Marathon with Sanctuary Runners

25 members of this year’s 70-strong Sanctuary Runner team will be people seeking international protection or refugee status The highest…

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8 Jul 2024

Brighton Sanctuary Runners off to a flyer!

It was a morning full of solidarity, friendship and respect on England’s south coast as the Brighton Sanctuary Runners got…

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4 Jul 2024

Sanctuary Runners to launch in Brighton this Saturday!

A new Sanctuary Runners group will be launched in in Brighton on Saturday, July 6th. Sanctuary Runners, which uses running,…

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7 Jun 2024

Sanctuary Runners launch Global Solidarity Run at United Nations

Irish Solidarity-Through-Sport Movement aiming to get 1 million people across the world to take part in the October 19th event…

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4 Jun 2024

From Direct Provision to the United Nations: Cork’s Busie to represent Sanctuary Runners at the UN in Geneva

A former international protection applicant, now working with Cork City Council, will represent Sanctuary Runners at a major international conference in Geneva…

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16 May 2024

Athletics Ireland announce Official Partnership with Sanctuary Runners

Athletics Ireland and Sanctuary Runners today announced the formalisation of their official partnership which aims to bring local residents and…

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25 Apr 2024

Sanctuary Runners – From Ireland to the World

A Note from Graham Clifford, Founder Even in the early days of Sanctuary Runners I started to receive emails and…

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12 Apr 2024

Sanctuary Runners are first charity partner of Morton Games

Sanctuary Runners are delighted to become the first ever charity partner of the prestigious international track and field meet, Morton…

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10 Apr 2024

Sanctuary Runners to Recruit New CEO

Sanctuary Runners is excited to announce that Graham Clifford, who founded the multi-award-winning organisation in 2018, is to become our…