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ENTRIES FOR THE first ever Dublin City Half Marathon have sold out in under two hours, with the event organisers acknowledging that some users experienced “difficulties with registration”.
The Dublin City Half Marathon will take place on Sunday, 30 March and the 13.1 mile race will start on O’Connell Street.
From there, the course will take runners out of the north of the city and back into the city centre, though the exact route map will be published later.
The race is organised by the team behind the Irish Life Dublin Marathon and Race Series, in collaboration with Dublin City Council, who are the event partners.
Tickets for the half marathon went on sale at around 12pm today and sold out less than two hours later.
In a post on Instagram, the organisers said they are “aware that some users are experiencing difficulties with registration”.
“We are working with Eventmaster to resolve the issue as soon as possible,” added the comment from Dublin City Half Marathon’s social media feed.
Some users said they were “kicked off” the Eventmaster site several times before successfully securing an entry to the half marathon.
Meanwhile, many online have taken issue with the €68 entry fee.
This entry fee includes a finisher’s t-shirt, a medal, and the postage of race numbers.
And while there is no refund option, entrants can pay an additional €5 to have the option of a “transfer window” from 1 February to 9 March.
The event organisers said that “entrants who opt for this will be charged €5 to cover the administration of the refund” and note that “selling or attempting to swap race numbers outside of the transfer window will result in the number being cancelled”.
Meanwhile, there is €13,500 prize fund available for the top five finishers in both the male and female categories.
Additionally, prize funds are available for wheelchair and visually impaired winners, as well as for master categories and a non-binary category.
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They’ll quickly find the rest of the country is not going to pay half a million for each home. Who do they think they’re kidding?
The fact that the mica infected mines, that the developers persisted to use. All around the country for years after first initial warnings broke. Several quarries named and shamed. Yet still continued to function as valid blocks/concrete. Criminal negligence. Funded by us muppets. The home owners should all get their investment back. And lessons will be learned.
Ordinary people standing up for themselves, been mocked on here. What if it was your home ? Its back to poor governance again, Councils & Govt turning a blind eye & allowing their friends who greased their palms, operate Quarries that they knew were a problem. Donegal & the North East, along with the entire Western seaboard are one of the most neglected regions in Ireland & Donegal is recognized so by Europe. All parties have failed the region, so why wouldn’t ordinary people stand up & fight for themselves, more of this is needed in Ireland, fair play to them. General Election next up will be a different ball game, Govt parties won’t want to see these people running as it will affect things differently to the Locals & Europeans.
@SV3tN8M4: Well said. Unfortunately the first three commentors are completely not getting it.
@SV3tN8M4: exactly
Many of the homes that are effected by Mica are 3/4 bedroom semi-detached and not hype of half a million mansions… not only that houses that where build by contractors for
Councils that were handed over for social homes are in this process, There are also many commercial buildings that has been affected also. .. and Mica has so far been detected in seventeen counties.
@Paul Maguire: you only have to look at priory Hall, and numerous FFG backed private investments around the country. Ghost estates, a lot of them were because they were lying in habitable and unsellable for a decade due to mica and other shoddy sub par “friends of the builder and supplier, estate agent” money pits. No insulation, no fire proofing, no damp proof coursing. Lash them up mentality. Cowboys ruled Ireland before the snakes came back.
@Meh Meh: Priory Hall was built by Thomas McFeely, one of the IRA hunger strikers so he’d be more SFIRA than FFG
@John K: So, why did F.G./The Irish Nazis allow him to escape the consequences???
Absolute chancers, disgraceful
Not the taxpayers problem. If something is too cheap the reason is the quality.
Should’ve done your homework before investing.
Better luck next time .
If they put up a candidate in the general election that could be the end of Thomas Pringle’s Dail career.
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