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Watch: news2day Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Find out about Sanctuary Runners. news2day meets Presidential candidate Heather Humphreys. Is this Ireland's biggest pumpkin? And some smashing pumpkin fun for elephants in Oregon Zoo.

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Sanctuary Runners is an organisation which helps bring migrants, asylum seekers and refugees into the Irish running community and assists them in preparing for races like the Dublin Marathon.

This year, the Sanctuary Runners will also be helped by letters of encouragement written by students all across the country, like those at St Aidan's Community School in Dublin. So Cathal raced down to see how they were getting on!

The Presidential Elections 2025 take place this Friday, so news2day are meeting the candidates. Today it's Heather Humphreys - Catherine Connolly was on Monday's show.

Is this Ireland's biggest pumpkin? Schoolteacher Servatius Antonius grew a giant from seed at home in Limerick. He reckons it now weighs in at over 110kg. It’s on display at his school, North Mon, in Cork.

Halloween should be full of tricks and treats for every - even elephants! That's why a family of them living in Oregon Zoo had a smashing time this week!!

There's lots more content from the show, including an archive, on the news2day website!

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