Inner city running club gets large following in Dublin
Steve Humphreys
A running club set up to help a handful of people through lockdown has grown to training 700 people each week.
In August 2020, Karl Taaffe (28) and his friend Dwayne Edgar (27) decided to set up a running club. They hoped five people would show up. Today, the friends train up to 700 people a week.
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