stephanie hegarty, bbc news.yed by at least three weeks. the free event is a 5k run every saturday morning in green spaces across the country, but it hasn't been allowed to operate during the pandemic. the organisers had hoped it would resume on 5thjune — but agreement hasn't been reached with all landowners — as tom williams, the chief operating officer at parkrun, explained to my colleaguejane hill. working with actually over 600 landowners, we've been trying to agree a start date for when parkrun can come back en masse, as it were. unfortunately, as of today, our cut—off, we had about 260—270 of our 589 events by permission today, with just two weeks to go before the 5th ofjune. we felt that was too short a notice to give event teams, so we regrettably took the decision to delay until at least the 26th of june. and when you talk about landowners, for people who perhaps aren't familiar with parkrun, who are we talking about? some land is owned by local authorities. is some of it completely private land which pe

stephanie hegarty, bbc news.cant. alex howell has been to swansea city, to find out about their new approach to supporting young players on — and off — the pitch. it�*s the pinnacle of sport, but one very few footballers get to experience. under 1% of academy footballers will go on to play top—flight professional football. the shock of rejection can be very real. the football journey is hard and everyone tells you only 1% or whatever make it. but, as a player, you always think that�*s not me, surely not. swansea city academy player ali knows about the pressures of trying to make it. you�*re getting judged every single day on every single thing you are doing. a lot of people can�*t handle that pressure and can�*t handle the mental stress that comes out of it. i had this time yesterday. we just found out obviously what people are getting contracts. and people like to put a face on and think it�*s ok, but deep down those boys are gutted. that is their dream. for a lot of them, that is gone now. and it takes a lot of

stephanie hegarty, bbc news.ed racial harassment on and offline, what you think of that?— what you think of that? well, obviously. — what you think of that? well, obviously, the _ what you think of that? well, obviously, the investigation i what you think of that? well, i obviously, the investigation into the shooting is under way, so we will not comment on it. i can talk more generally about racism in ireland and where we are as a society and a country in terms of racism. there is no question that racism. there is no question that racism exists in irish society, we need to acknowledge that. we published a national survey of 1200 people in ireland, and one of the starker statistics we found was that nearly half of young people, 48% of that group, had witnessed or experienced racism in the previous 12 months. we know that it also exists in our workplaces, black irish people are twice as likely in accessing work to experience discrimination, and nearly 3.5 times as likely to experience racism in work, and those sta