The latest starting parkrun just got even later.
When Inis Meáin parkrun started a couple of years ago, many eyebrows were raised when they announced that it wouldn't start until 11am. Many thought it was because of local ferry times but no, the regular ferry to that island from Ros An Mhíl to the north of the island leaves at 10:30 and wouldn't make it over in time, occasional ferries from Doolin to the east of the island were also not scheduled to arrive in time and had to be chartered by tourist groups (always in collaboration with the island core team). There are island hopping flights but the plane can only hold 8 including the pilot.
No, the real reason it started at 11 is because the three islands share one Catholic priest and he holds "Sunday mass" on the middle island on Saturday morning at 10am.
However, there has been a slight change and now Inis Meáin parkrun is the only parkrun to operate in the afternoon instead of in the morning. And this time, it is about the ferry. They've moved the start to 12pm so that people on that 10:30 ferry can participate. There's even a shuttle bus from Galway city available that leaves at 9:30.
The parkrun is still isolated enough from the other mainland parkruns that unless you charter a helicopter or a speedboat, you're not going to do a mainland parkrun in say Knocknacarra or Oughterard and make it over to the island in time to do another one on the same day.