01/11/2026
A beautiful person, gone too soon. Ciara Mageean was the very best of us. Heartfelt condolences from all Fermanagh Gaels Against Genocide 🪽💚
Rest in peace and power Ciara Mageean, one of Ireland’s finest athletes -a pioneer in her sport, an Olympian and European Champion - and a beautiful person. Ciara supported solidarity runs for Palestine and spoke out against Israel’s genocide. She called for sanctions on the apartheid state and said it should not be allowed to compete in international sport. In her recently released autobiography, 'My Greatest Race', she wrote that she “firmly believed” Israel shouldn’t have been able to compete at the last European Championships as the state was “committing genocide”, a position she consistently maintained and for which she received horrendous abuse, including death wishes. Ciara Mageean is a huge loss to us all, our deepest sympathies to everyone who loved her.