Ciara Mageean
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784 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Ciara Mageean’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But to be able to do that, to have your closest friends beside you, for Thomas to be able to come out and help me, I was able to toe the line with an Irish vest on my back and represent my whole nation.
Like that is such a privilege to me.
to stand on a podium in here or on the Vian Ring Round, a stadium.
Like it was my life's ambition.
And I know how lucky I am.
I feel like it's like all of us, if I have a lesson to anybody, it's like enjoy the moment you're in.
And I probably started appreciating that a bit more come the latter years of my career.
So the summer that I got silver at Europeans and silver at Commonwealth Games,
was a season where I actually was like, okay, I was throwing up beforehand with the nerves, but there was a thing in my head.
I was like, you need to stop and smell the roses because this doesn't last forever.
And maybe there's just like, there was something innately that my body knew that...
Something might happen fairly soon that you can't enjoy these moments, but I can distinctly remember standing on both of those tracks after the medal, closing my eyes and just listening to the crowd and thinking, there's nowhere in the world I'd rather be.
And yeah, for anybody, I'd say relish those moments.
That might be in your garden with your kids and they're giggling and they're having fun and you just think...
there's nowhere I'd rather be.
For me, walking my wee Springer Spaniel up in a field and it's something I do every day.
I stop and I look around and I think, this is so beautiful.
I'm so lucky.
There's so many people in the world that are going through absolute turmoil and it breaks my heart to see things that are happening in South Sudan, in Gaza.
What people were putting people through in Belfast only a week ago.
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