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Croke Park may be a home from home for former Dublin footballer Eamon Fennell, but he is more used to being on the pitch than the Hill.
Eamon and his wife Fiona Creely plan to set a record for the number of times to run up and down Hill 16 in 160 minutes.
The challenge, in aid of the Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation, takes place tomorrow morning and will see them sprint up and down the Hill’s 80 steps.
“We did a run through yesterday. I did it twice, it’s going to be tough,” said Eamon.
“Every weekend my wife and our daughter – who s 20 months – walked up Howth Hill, we walked up Killiney Hill, we did a couple of other steep walks.