Author: Patrick Muldoon

The gift and joy of running during lockdown

                      Next month will mark a year since Ireland went into the first coronavirus lockdown. The country is presently going through a third national lockdown which has prompted people to…

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Look towards the light on the horizon

As the evenings get longer and the signs of Spring slowly surface, it is a good time to look forward in faith to the future. The scale of suffering brought about by the Covid-19 global pandemic has spread a heavy…

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Have faith in what will be

It has been widely acknowledged how the Coronavirus pandemic has changed our daily lives. For many Covid-19 has made life less frenzied, it has led society to seek answers to the bigger questions of life; and some individuals have used…

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Living in the present moment

Recently while running in a park close to where I live, I observed a beautiful sunset. Everything felt so calm and peaceful as the radiating warmth of the late afternoon was gradually replaced by the fresh coolness of the evening…

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Dare to hope and dream

On Sunday 27 October I took part in the Dublin Marathon. It was a most enjoyable day running the streets of our capital city and competing in the 40th edition of the race, which is a single lap course, starting…

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