Dublin Marathon 2021

You do know there be no such thing as herd immunity. We never had a herd immunity with any respiratory virus.

The main issue for Oct marathon was the insurance cost. Its impossible to get cover for an event that big right now because of covid.

If you are so confident you could offer them insurance to cover the cost if it doesn't go ahead and charge them a fee. Money for nothing going by you.

Looking like bigger fools with each passing day.

Within a month of this call to cancel we know that 40000 will attend the all ireland finals, on track as everyone expected since early summer.

Vaccine demand and delivery through the roof.

Yes, AI and DCM organisers are a poor reflection on the sport as a whole.

It was up to the biggest player in terms of participation and audience exposure in the country to lobby with the sporting organisations backing but they rolled over.

More fool you for singing up to the Belfast marathon, they couldn't manage the numbers they had in previous years, never mind a race with health related measures.

you’ll be well trained for DCM in 15 months time.

Belfast have a new flatter route which worked v well in 2019, and a 5,500 cap this year, including all last years deferrals - and they’re expecting 10-20% no-shows from the deferrals.

yep, sounds like it’ll be carnage alright :D

There's only one or two people whining about the cancellation. The rest of us made peace with reality a long time ago.

Frankfurt has been called off today.

Any comment from Jim?

Must be feeling like a proper mug at this stage.

Because he rolled over, the only big city marathon organisation to do so without making any effort to lobby for it to be held.

Now we have the national marathon at a no mark event to cover AI arses.

Any word on a new sponsor for the race next year? I presume KBC will be out as they leave the Irish market

Surprised to see this thread still going, and people still debating the reasons for the cancellation. It seems very straightforward to me, it was a large scale event that couldn't get any assurances worth a damn from a government that are so paralysed by fear that they wouldn't even allow parkruns. Health and safety had nothing to do with it, everybody already knows that.

Plenty of marathons abroad are being cancelled, Frankfurt and Cologne to name just two. The reasons they’re giving entrants is rising case numbers and lower than expected vaccine rollout. There’ll be a lot of disappointment people who will see their foreign marathon cancelled this autumn.

To be fair, the Germans are giving the option of a refund (less admin fee). Having entries rolling over for 3 years is like purgatory.

They may as well start issuing refunds now as we can kiss goodbye to 2022 at this rate.

Unless the HSE can magic 100 new ICU beds out of thin air before the spring...........

NPHET admitted finally on air this morning that our new reason for perpetual restrictions on mass gatherings is to avoid the hospital being over run, that position is not for changing. It's no longer about Covid, our hospital capacity will never be up to the level required so are we on hold forever, there seems to be a power play between HSE and Govt here over funding.

All restrictions lifted on October 22nd - what could have been!

The HSE & Govt announced the vaccination rollout timelines at the start of the summer and have kept to them perfectly to their credit.

Nothing that wasn't expected since May has come to pass, we also have allowed a few weeks here and there for slower unwinding of restrictions.

How much more assurance could they have been given? Other companies and events with a bit of gumption held fire and planned ahead.

DCM was all for towing the line regarding restrictions but had no plan based on the expected good outcome of the vaccination rollout.

I see they have no problem hoovering up as much cash as possible from 4 virtual races.

If only they had some way of knowing how the vaccination rollout was going and where the country might be in a couple of months

Again, this is just inane. You are making the same mistake in assuming that the vaccine timetable alone is enough to make plans on, when it is the government decisions that are actually the important factor and the government has been historically cautious in what they will allow.

If vaccine rollout out was enough then maybe electric picnic would have went ahead also. But it wasn't, they needed to be allowed to do these things and that requires more than just pointing at the vaccine rollout.

The PUP was a payment to cover the period when the economy was parked. That announcement at the end of May was clearly informing the public that things were going to change at the start of Sept. You cannot withdraw supports for people without allowing them earn a living.

Here we are Sept 1st, full capacity on public transport, people being encouraged back to the office. Watch how quick employment contracts are referred to.

Yeah those volunteers sure are idiots. They have been made to look like such fools, cant believe it. All those volunteers should resign. Cant wait for next year. 2022 is going to be amazing with all the knowledge on this thread alone joining the organizing committee, going to be the best marathon in the world.