Waterstown parkrun Dublin

24/08/2026

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 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

23/08/2026

Part 2

23/08/2026

🌳 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. 😎

22/08/2026

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

20/08/2026

**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.

18/08/2026

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17/08/2026

Two parkrunners reached their latest parkrun milestone last Saturday

🏃‍♀️🟣2️⃣5️⃣ Aoife Gainsford
🏃‍♀️🟢2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ Helen Doran

Aoife was a First Time visitor from her usual Corkagh parkrun and has 15 junior parkruns( Griffeen junior parkrun ) and a brilliant 28 volunteer credits to her name too.

Since joining parkrun on Jan 2017, Helen is definitely a regular at our parkrun with an amazing 245 of her 250 parkruns at our event. She is also almost at her 50 volunteer milestone too.

Well done ladies

15/08/2026

Lovely to have you all in Waterstown this morning. Hope you can find yourself in the photos! We had visitors from the UK, Ardgillan parkrun and some first timers also.
We had 2 Waterstown regulars doing milestones this morning….congratulations to Bernie on your 300th and Helen on your 250th parkrun👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

15/08/2026

Leap card found in Waterstown after parkrun this morning. It’s in the key bag if it’s yours please come along next week to collect!

15/08/2026