Departures of note

Ciara Mageean was an Irish middle-distance runner from Portaferry, County Down, who specialised in the 1500 metres. She won the gold medal in the event at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, becoming the first individual Irish European champion since Sonia O'Sullivan. She was a four-time European Athletics Championship medallist, adding bronze in 2016, silver outdoors in 2022 and bronze indoors in 2019, and also took silver over 1500 metres at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

She represented Ireland at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and in her junior years won silver at the 2009 World Youth, 2010 World Junior and 2011 European Junior Championships. Mageean set Irish national records from 800 metres to the mile, including a 1500 metres record of 3:55.87, claimed her first Diamond League victory in Brussels in 2022, and in 2023 became the women's parkrun world record holder.

A graduate of University College Dublin, where she studied physiotherapy, Mageean was named Irish Athlete of the Year in 2022. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2025 and died on 1 November 2026 at the age of 34.