Top 20 Irish Running Influencers on Instagram (Mar 2026)

We found 54 running Influencers in Ireland
These influencers mention 'running' in their Instagram bio and have audiences primarily in Ireland. Here are the top 20. To run a custom search, check out Modash's influencer discovery features (free to try).
03/04/2026
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1. Andrew Moore - Running Coach

Ireland

Running Coach | Training Plans @brooksrunninguk runner Fitness Goose Run Club @fitnessgoose

Followers
22.7k
Fake followers
22.15%
Engagement rate
1.12%
Average Reel plays
8.4k
Audience gender
male
48.24%
female
51.76%
Top performing Reels
  1. 311.4k
  2. 138.3k
  3. There's nothing quite like the Dublin Marathon. I'm not exaggerating when I say it's like Christmas Day for runners.  There's nothing like the smiles, the high fives, fist pumps, and the "I think I'm going too fast"s. The city turns into a beam of positivity, of joy and encouragement, for everyone we've witnessed counting down the days to this one. For the runners, a giant lap of victory to celebrate all the early mornings, missed nights out, the "head out and see how you goes." The ankle twists, the tight hips, the "should my body feel like this?" It's done now. In the bag. An achievement to be proud of every day of your life.  Normally, I (@missshesgotknits 👋) would take some snaps of the day, and that's that. But this year, I wanted to capture how I see races all the time, with Andrew encouraging so many people along the way. I'm just in awe of this man. He works harder than anyone I've ever met and cares so passionately about every single person he coaches.  He lives and breathes each person's challenges and successes and to see him run around like a maniac yesterday, then come home to send photos, voice notes, make calls, and check up on everyone individually is what I've come to expect but always admire.  For me, seeing the faces on the day of all the people I've shared Sunday mornings, trail runs, races abroad, late night panicked group whatsapps (mainly about parking), Strava kidos's and all the coffees in between, just made my heart burst. I can't tell you how many times I've cried happy tears for everyone I know who took part this weekend. Watching them through ups and downs to get to the big day has been a privilege. It's been an absolute ball. A disco damhsa. I couldn't be prouder...  Congratulations, everyone. I hope you're resting up today. Thanks for making the marathon incredible again this year. But as you'll soon likely hear, Andrew says, 'Well, what are we doing next?'.
    45.9k
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
Ireland
36.64%
United States
14.85%
United Kingdom
10.36%
Brazil
3.86%
Spain
2.51%
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2. Fiona Phelan

Ireland

Fi💫 Family/Life/Running/Hiking/Health/Food/Positivity/Fashion🌸 Bring Humor😉 Running Cork 1/2 marathon 01-06 for my brother in law Cyril link in bio💙

Followers
21.2k
Fake followers
18.12%
Engagement rate
1.16%
Average Reel plays
6.7k
Audience gender
male
3.17%
female
96.83%
Top performing Reels
  1. The hardest thing I’ll ever share! Because yes I am embarrassed, sad and angry that I let myself get to this level of self hatred, sadness, anger and size! Totally abusing my body with food, constantly punishing myself for being unhealthy by being even worse!! It’s a vicious cycle and so many can resonate with that! Yes I took a different route for weight loss one which many don’t agree with, but it wasn’t for lack of trying it all, and mentally I just couldn’t do it any longer. So after alot of agonising over this decision I decided to do it! After some research and consultation with @getsliminturkey I finally changed my life! And it’s the best decision I have ever made! I’m so grateful for every single day and every day of feeling so much better. And I appreciate everything so much, I’ve always been blessed with what I have I just didn’t see it for a while! “Once you start appreciating life, that’s when you realise how much you truly have to live for” Whilst I always loved being active I now absolutely love it!! Yes I hiked mountains the size I was last year, I never gave up, I used to be 76 shades of purple in the face for gasping 🤣 but I never gave up, I am actually proud of that! But perhaps maybe trying to prove something to others, whereas now I’m only trying to prove things to myself! 🤍 This isn’t a post looking for compliments, this is a post to every single person who struggles with their weight/fitness/confidence that you can take control, you can change things for yourself. You’re worth putting the effort in, you’re worth the work, you’re worth keeping yourself healthy for a long time! “True wealth is having your health and knowledge of self” Benjamin Franklin #lifechanging #healthier #weightloss #buildingconfidence #gastricsleeve #bariatricsurgery #getsliminturkey #fitter #stronger #lovinglife #appreciation
    114.4k
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Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by country
Ireland
77.04%
United Kingdom
13.39%
United States
2.32%
Spain
2.01%
Australia
0.8%
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3. Amy O Donoghue

Ireland

🇮🇪 Irish International Athlete 💫 Sharing running & motivation tips 🦋 All things fitness, mindset and fun

Followers
19.9k
Fake followers
24.23%
Engagement rate
2.58%
Average Reel plays
10.9k
Audience gender
female
38.65%
male
61.35%
Top performing Reels
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
Ireland
52.08%
United States
11.71%
United Kingdom
11.39%
Australia
3.09%
Spain
2.25%
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4. Pat Kane

Ireland

🌍 Creating with tomorrow in mind 🌱 Conscious living in motion ✨ Finding the beauty of enough 💡 Stories, style + experiences 💫 Running + art lover

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5. Emer McMahon 👉 Follow 4 running inspo & calorie-counted recipes!

Ireland

🇮🇪 Runner & foodie | Lost 42lbs 💪 | 5k 24:22 | 10k 50:28 | HM 1:49 | FM 4:07 👉 Follow for running inspo + calorie-counted recipes!

Followers
11.7k
Fake followers
17.35%
Engagement rate
2.42%
Average Reel plays
2.8k
Audience gender
male
7.81%
female
92.19%
Top performing Reels
  1. 600
  2. 459
  3. 407
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
United Kingdom
53.17%
Ireland
28.56%
United States
8.09%
Spain
1.46%
Canada
1.36%
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6. A N N I E K I R W A N

Ireland

@reformation.ie Bookings/Enquiries linked below Pilates Educator Pelvic Health Pilates Physio Student Anatomy Lover Pilates Running Forever Learning

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7. David McCarthy | Running Coach

Ireland

Helping runners smash PB’s & train smarter PBs: 5km ⏱️ 13:42 | Marathon ⏱️ 2:24 DM for 1:1 coaching Save on shoes @top4running Use “dmcrun”at checkout

Followers
7.9k
Fake followers
12.26%
Engagement rate
3.28%
Average Reel plays
12.8k
Audience gender
female
38.74%
male
61.26%
Top performing Reels
Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by country
Ireland
50.06%
United States
15.69%
United Kingdom
15.08%
Australia
3.31%
Canada
1.44%
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8. Kirsten Higgins

Ireland

Dublin 📍 @runna: code KIRSTEN @alo run club ambassador 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫, 𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 5k 18:51 | 10K 39:51 | 21k 1:29:18

Followers
5.9k
Fake followers
15.64%
Engagement rate
7.22%
Average Reel plays
14.4k
Audience gender
male
52.7%
female
47.3%
Top performing Reels
  1. 89.9k
  2. @runnershighdublin x @lululemoneurope 🍒 I held off starting run club in Dublin for so long, which didn’t make sense to a lot of people (mainly my mom lol) because I live here and I don’t live in London, where I started @runnershighlondon !! but there was something holding me back with starting one here … I think I felt like since I knew very few people in London, I would be less scared to throw myself into the deep end 👀 this comes from my inner teenager who was SCARED of putting herself out there (she still rears her head sometimes) when I initially asked who would come to our first dublin run club, 80 of you said yes. so when 250 tickets sold out in less than 24 hours, you can imagine my shock (and panic lol). I put the capacity to 250 thinking we’d see no more than 100 - in fact, I was so confident in this that I didn’t think to ask lulu what the store capacity was 🥹 when they said 100, you can imagine I freaked out lol talk about me being unorganised xxxx anyway, with that in mind THANK U lulu for being the best and facilitating this, thank you to YOU for coming / supporting me / engaging with what I do / commenting / dming EVERYTHING I feel so beyond lucky to be able to host events like these 💕 to see so many of you get into running through Runners High or just in general, is just the best feeling in the world x so basically - thank you for everything genuinely xxx (btw 28 days until the marathon help) ps. my mom is at the end of this carousel aka my bffl ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📸 @simonwong.ie #runner #runnershighdublin #slowrunner #runclubdublin #dublin #newrunner #beginnerrunner #realisticrunning #5km
    2.3k
  3. 1.9k
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
Ireland
53.53%
United Kingdom
12.71%
United States
6.42%
France
5.39%
Spain
3.98%
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10. Laura JJ

Ireland

I take selfies while running businesses

Followers
5.1k
Fake followers
25.03%
Engagement rate
2.41%
Average Reel plays
7.4k
Audience gender
male
64.06%
female
35.94%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
Ireland
24.66%
Brazil
18.68%
Italy
16.67%
United States
11.76%
United Kingdom
6.18%

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11. Fahd Baig

Ireland

🃏All in. 🧘🏾‍♂️Books | Running | Life @FarBeyondLtd |🎙@Fahdcast 🌏Dublin||Dubai

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12. Keith Russell 🇮🇪

Ireland

Back Yard Ultra 89 hours 🇮🇪 24 hour running 246.7km 🇮🇪 Coaching enquiries⬇️ Running coach - @_121fitness & @wildheartrunners

Followers
4.3k
Fake followers
12.23%
Engagement rate
5.87%
Average Reel plays
5.3k
Audience gender
female
42.86%
male
57.14%
Top performing Reels
  1. 8.6k
  2. 769
  3. The back yard ultra world championships 2023 Since the race has finished I’ve been trying to figure out what happened, yes I got to 74 hours and with how I was feeling I was so happy with that. I do question why I felt like that? How can I change it? It’s the want to learn so we are planning for 2025 already… I had qualified for this race from the race in Rettart Germany running 89 hours and being the assist… I have waited for bigs for 2 years as the last time I was meant to go we couldn’t get visas due to covid. We were all set to go, Annabelle was crewing for me back then too, she generously contacted me to see if I needed a crew. This time I wanted to give her first refusal on crewing,, she was delighted to do it. We spoke on the phone a few times on the lead up and we had the same mindset surrounding the race,, we are here for the long haul.. she promised to get me to the start line every hour, all I had to do was promise to come back before each hour,, Bigs dogs back yard is one of the most iconic places in the runners world, and meeting Laz himself for the first time he is kinda celebrity status among us runners 😁… The course is technical during the day (I didn’t realise how technical it would be) and an out and back on road (not flat at all) Everyone is allocated a spot in the big tent it looked like a graveyard with peoples names, we also had a shared tent with 1 other runner but we had our tent too,, more privacy and a quiet place to sleep when needed. The plan was Annabelle would sleep between laps, with a big sleep during the day so I could tend to myself for those couple of hours, this obviously didn’t go this way as she greeted me at the start/finish line every hour with out fail. It was amazing to have her there 🙏🏻🙌🏻 As the hours ticked by I felt good, I kept consistent my lap times were decent and I was getting some sleep,, food was going in but it was so hot and humid at times it was not digesting,, we tried to keep on top of salt intake too,, there is so much you need to be aware of with in this race, this is why the crew person is so important, they need to adjust on the fly or the race will end… Continued in comment section…
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Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
Ireland
79.87%
United Kingdom
4.56%
United Arab Emirates
3.93%
United States
2.99%
Australia
1.42%
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15. Pete Thompson

Ireland

Dad ~ Husband ~ Athlete ~ Running Coach In my Marathon Running Era 🤙 @hoka_eu | @xmilesuk | @yourhelpfulrunners ⚡️☘️ Coaching Enquiries 👇

Followers
3.3k
Fake followers
10.08%
Engagement rate
2.66%
Average Reel plays
5k
Audience gender
male
62.24%
female
37.76%
Top performing Reels
  1. 13.7k
  2. 466
  3. 347
Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by country
United Kingdom
67.03%
Ireland
11.22%
United States
7.03%
France
1.76%
Italy
1.49%
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16. Paul Fred Hennessy

Ireland

Owner @fitt_gym_finglas Strength Coach 🏋️‍♂️ Powerlifting 💪 Hyrox & FITT Running Club 🏃‍♂️ Sports Teams ⚽️🎯

Followers
3.2k
Fake followers
11.54%
Engagement rate
3.58%
Average Reel plays
6.4k
Audience gender
female
60.06%
male
39.94%
Top performing Reels
  1. 31.2k
  2. 635
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
Ireland
76.17%
United Kingdom
5.14%
Australia
3.97%
Spain
3.74%
United States
2.8%
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17. RACHEL CARROLL

Ireland

🏡 Dublin, Ireland Running Valencia Half Marathon 2026 for breast cancer research. Donate 👇🏻

Followers
2.8k
Fake followers
23.43%
Engagement rate
2.99%
Average Reel plays
-
Audience gender
male
52.9%
female
47.1%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
Ireland
67.21%
United Kingdom
7.86%
United States
5.57%
Spain
3.81%
Australia
3.63%
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18. Dearbhla 🐌

Ireland

Retired Pro Dancer 💃 Addicted to Running & Hyrox 🏃‍♀️

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19. Eoin Hamilton

Ireland

💻Co-Founder @hiiker_ 🏃‍♂️Running @halfmoonrc ⛰️Outside is my best side 🧗‍♂️ Not sponsored by @ballymaloefoods... Yet

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20. Shane Murphy

Ireland

◾️Owner X @play_creativeagency & @playstudio__ ◼️Fond of Running, Marketing & Sports ◾️Masters Degree in Marketing Practice PLAY Services/Studio⤵️

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