Portaferry's Ciara Mageean returned home to the Ards Peninsula for the first time since her record-breaking World Athletics Championship run.
Hundreds of people lined the streets of the village, while a special reception was held in the village community centre.
Ciara came fourth in the World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August, breaking her own 1500m Irish record. She broke it again at a Diamond League meeting in Brussels two weeks ago.
The Portaferry runner, a guest on Patrick Kielty's Late Late Show on Friday, a year ago first broke Sonia O'Sullivan's 3:58.85 record, which had stood for 27 years.
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Ciara (31) set another Irish 1500m record when she ran a 3:55.87 to take second behind Scotland's Laura Muir at the Brussels Diamond League meeting.
On The Late Late Show on Saturday, Ciara described how tough it was to part ways with the late and legendary coach Jerry Kiernan, who passed away in January 2021. She left Jerry's team when moving to Manchester to become a full-time professional.
"Hands down it was harder leaving Jerry. You're on to something now because I always cry when I speak about Jerry," Ciara said.
"For me to leave the set-up here in Dublin and go and train professionally in Manchester was something I couldn't pass up.
"But leaving Jerry Kieran as my coach was the hardest thing I'd ever done because I left my boyfriend Thomas in Dublin but I was more cut-up about leaving Jerry."
