More than 800 people turned out to the National Solidarity Run, which took place on Sunday, October 11, at the Sport Ireland Campus in Dublin.
Organised by the not-for-profit movement, the Sanctuary Runners – founded by Fermoy’s Graham Clifford – the event formed part of the Global Solidarity Run initiative which saw people worldwide running, jogging, walking and wheeling to show solidarity with all those who are forcibly displaced from their homes and those living in extreme poverty.
“This movement is very important because it brings together people of all different backgrounds who would otherwise never meet – it opens minds and hearts and in a time when many seek to sow division, it does the very opposite of that,” Mr Clifford said.
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