Irish runner Ciara Mageean, European 1500m champion, dies at 34
The gist
Irish runner Ciara Mageean, the 2024 European 1500m champion, died aged 34 after a cancer battle.
She was Ireland's second individual European athletics champion and held four Irish records.
How it unfolded
- 2024Won 1500m gold at the European Championships in Rome, her first major title.
- 2024Withdrew from the Paris Olympics because of an Achilles injury, ruled out one day before her first heat.
- Jul 2025Revealed she had been diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer.