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The 2026 Anglo Celtic Plate will take place in Limerick, Ireland, hosted by Athletics Ireland.
This year's competitors:
A MESSAGE OF WELCOME FROM TEAM IRELAND HOST JOHN O’REGAN
It’s a privilege to welcome athletes, team managers, supporters, and officials to Limerick for this year’s Anglo Celtic Plate. Hosting this historic home‑nations competition on behalf of Team Ireland is an honour, and we’re delighted to extend a warm Irish welcome to our friends from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Ireland.
The Anglo Celtic Plate has long been a celebration of endurance, camaraderie, and the shared spirit of ultrarunning across these islands. Each year it brings together not only outstanding athletes, but a community built on respect, resilience, and a genuine love of the sport. With its rich heritage and proud sporting tradition, Limerick is a fitting stage for this gathering of nations.
To all athletes competing today: your commitment to the 100 km distance is commendable. The discipline, courage, and determination required to reach this start line are achievements in themselves. We hope the course rewards your efforts.
To the coaches, volunteers, organisers, and supporters: thank you for the countless hours that make an event like this possible. Your dedication is the backbone of our sport.
On behalf of Team Ireland, I wish every competitor a strong, memorable, and fulfilling race. May the spirit of friendly rivalry and mutual respect that defines the Anglo Celtic Plate continue to thrive here in Limerick.
A MESSAGE FROM ACP ASSOCIATION CHAIR ED SMITH
The undoubted strength of our championship is in exploring new venues, unearthing new talent, reinforcing established ones and renewing friendships and of course race rivalries among the Home Countries. This year will be no different as, fittingly in St. Patrick’s week, we return to Ireland and -for the first time - to Limerick University ,an impressive sports centre of excellence. It will be the 5th time in Ireland. The Championship was held in the Phoenix Park in Dublin in1999 and 2005, Galway in 2009 and, despite the pandemic, went ahead in Mondello Park in 2021- although everyone only seems to remember the thunderstorm that hit mid-race! Scotland’s Chris Richardson won the men’s race that day and he is back competing this week-end. Our thanks and best wishes must go to Team Ireland’s John O’Regan ( a man with a lot on his plate as Director of Communications at the IAU),race director Anthony Lee and their team for pulling the race together despite not receiving any sponsorship or support to cover essential costs. And, also to you the runners and those vital crews that support you. I know that - much to my dismay - many of you in these straightened times for Governing Bodies are partially or indeed fully self-funded pulling on that international vest and have travelled a distance to be here - so may all that self-sacrifice be rewarded today. This race has proved a platform in the past for future World and European ultra individual/team champions and record holders and I’ve no doubt that will continue this week-end.