Tributes have been paid to European champion and Olympian Ciara Mageean, who died on Sunday at 34 years old. Mageean, who represented Ireland and Northern Ireland, was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in May 2025.
Mageean became the European 1500m champion in 2024, completing a set of European Championship medals after winning bronze in 2016 and silver in 2022. She was also the Irish record holder in several middle-distance events, including the 800m, 1,000m, both indoor and outdoor 1500m, and the mile.
Her career included a silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and a fourth-place finish at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest. Mageean missed the 2012 London Olympics and 2024 Paris Olympics due to injury.