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Lisa O'Carroll in Dublin

Colin Farrell’s Dublin marathon run raises €774,000 for charity

Colin Farrell and Emma Fogarty at the finish line
Colin Farrell said his friend Emma Fogarty was ‘what courage and pure determination are all about’. Photograph: Ben Brady/INPHO/Rex/Shutterstock

Colin Farrell has raised €774,000 (£644,000) for a charity supporting people with a rare skin condition by running the Dublin marathon while pushing one of the oldest survivors of the disease in Ireland around part of the course in her wheelchair.

The actor, who was born in the Irish capital, raised the money for Debra Ireland, an organisation that supports people with the incurable genetic condition epidermolysis bullosa (EB), or “butterfly skin”, which causes people to have very fragile and blistering skin.

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