Eamon Shealy
Brisbane-based runner and father who co-founded Run for Órla, a community run supporting Camp Quality in memory of his three-year-old daughter Órla, with his wife Una.
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Sep 7, 2026
SteveHOST
You've obviously done so well to get to where you are now.
Eamon ShealyGUEST
Looking back, Just on it, why we'd do a run, just looking back to the stage, it started on Easter Saturday, and our youngest was only 17 days old.
Eamon ShealyGUEST
We had just done parkrun, and she fell on a bouncing castle and ended up in hospital.
Eamon ShealyGUEST
We just got out of the hospital, it was our first outing, so everything kind of came back to the running part of it.
Eamon ShealyGUEST
And at the start, we're like, let's just get 200 of our friends, 50 bucks each, and we'll donate to the Camp Quality.
Eamon ShealyGUEST
But when the word got out, and it was just everybody wanted to be involved, So then we said, look, let's scale this as big as we can.
SteveHOST
where does the actual course go we
SteveHOST
You've obviously done so well to get to where you are now.
Eamon ShealyGUEST
Looking back, Just on it, why we'd do a run, just looking back to the stage, it started on Easter Saturday, and our youngest was only 17 days old.
Eamon ShealyGUEST
We had just done parkrun, and she fell on a bouncing castle and ended up in hospital.
Eamon ShealyGUEST
We just got out of the hospital, it was our first outing, so everything kind of came back to the running part of it.
Eamon ShealyGUEST
And at the start, we're like, let's just get 200 of our friends, 50 bucks each, and we'll donate to the Camp Quality.
Eamon ShealyGUEST
But when the word got out, and it was just everybody wanted to be involved, So then we said, look, let's scale this as big as we can.
SteveHOST
where does the actual course go we